242 CONDITIONS BY COUNTIES. 



most of the timber cut was white pine which could be sawed 

 easily and bought at a very low price. 



Thomas McNeel settled on 300 acres of land on Swago creek 

 about the year 1770. Here he built a grist mill, loom, and 

 powder mill, which he ran by water power. After his death his 

 son, Jonathan ]\IcNeel Sr. used the power for sawing lumber, 

 weaving cloth, making powder and grinding grain. 



A sash saw mill was operated by ]\Iike Propps above the 

 mouth of Stony creek during the early years of the last century. 

 All that now remains of this mill is a remnant of the race and 

 dam. Farther up the creek the early Duffields had a saw and 

 grist mill which was erected by William Cochran and Alexander 

 Lamb. The place is now marked by the combination flouring 

 mill, shingle mill, and saw mill owned by Godfrey Geiger and 

 operated by water-power. 



On Big Spring fork where McLaughlin's mill stood, Robert 

 Moore built and operated a saw and grist mill. Lieut. Beverly 

 Waugh, who furnished much information regarding the early 

 saw mills, remembers when but a small boy of seeing Amos Bar- 

 low with red oxen hauling lumber from this mill to the home of 

 his father, the late Eev. John Waugh of Indian Draft, to pay 

 for blacksmith work prior to the year 1840. In later years Rev. 

 John Waugh built a dam and erected a saw mill in the Indian 

 Draft near his home. In connection with his other work of saw- 

 ing lumber, blacksmithing and farming, he wheeled the first 

 wagon in the county. The wheels of this wagon, which was 

 owned by Robert Gay, were made of solid blocks of wood bound 

 with iron tires. 



David Gibson built a grist and saw mill on the waters of 

 Elk about the year 1840 and did the neighborhood sawing 

 and grinding for a time. 



Andrew Amos had a grist and saw mill farther down the 

 Elk at Roaring run on the Hogsett place, and John Hannah, 

 known as Black John Hannah," operated a saw mill on Old 

 Field fork of Elk. 



One of the early saw and grist mills of the county was 

 erected at Clover Lick by Jacob Warwick, a pioneer settler in 

 that section. This mill stood on the farm now o^vned by the 

 Hon. C. P. Dorr. 



