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for lumber there. Still later the Pritehards put up another mill 

 at Dunmore; and another located on Sitlington creek about 5 

 miles from Dunmore was owned by Lindy Taylor. 



'One of the first saw mills stood on Little Back creek, a 

 branch of Deer creek, where Daniel Kerr, soon after he returned 

 from the Eevolution, settled and built the mill and blacksmith 

 shop which made his place the center of trade in that region for 

 a time. In the early days, also, Benjamin Arbogast or his de- 

 scendants, erected a saw mill at Greenbank; and 2 miles above 

 on Deer creek at what is now known as the Heavener mill there 

 has been a mill for over 75 years. Four miles above Greenbank 

 Robert Brown still operates the only sash saw mill known to be 

 running in the county. 



Over a hundred years ago John Yeager settled at Travelers 

 Eepose and he and some of his descendants had a mill near that 

 place. 



The first steam saw mill in the county was used during the 

 Civil War by the Federal troops. According to Lieut. Waugh, 

 the same mill was used in Upshur county. 



The first steam saw mill to do regular work in the county 

 was put in operation in 1873 at Mace on the Dry fork of Elk by 

 Dan, John, and Jake Garber, who came from Augusta county, 

 Virginia. The cherry lumber sawed at this place Was hauled on 

 wagons over Elk mountain and rafted down the Greenbrier 

 river to Ronceverte. 



About 1875 John Marshall, also from Augusta county, 

 moved a steam saw mill into Lower Pocahontas where it was in 

 operation for some time. This mill is remembered by Levi 

 Waugh as it stood near the town of Buckeye covered with mud 

 after the flood of 1877. 



The first steam saw milling in the Dunmore section was 

 done by a man by the name of Sherman. 



In 1830 Albert L. Whitmore started a steam saw mill in the 

 county, and in 1882 Capt. Lokin, John Peters and Pritchard be- 

 gan to operate a mill of the same kind at Clover Lick. Charles 

 Callison located a steam saw mill in the Levels in 1885, and in 

 the following year Uriah Bird, McClintic and Peters began an- 

 other operation. After this James Gibson commenced a portable 

 saw mill operation which he continued for many years. 



