WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



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From Beverly to Huttonsville .... 



From Newlon to Pickens 



From Roaring Cr. Jet. to Coalton 

 From Elkins to Durbin 



From Parsons to Elkins 

 From Elkins to Beverly 



1889. 

 1891. 

 1898. 

 1892. 

 1903. 

 1903. 



Within the last 12 years the lumber industry has increased 

 at an amazing rate. Huge band mills have taken the place of 

 smaller operations in all the large forest areas and are now 

 manufacturing lumber at the rate of a million feet a day. No 

 fewer than 15 band mills located v/ithin the county and several 

 on the outside, as well as a number of smaller portable saw mills, 

 are cutting timber from the Randolph forests. Below are given 

 the names of the band saw^ operations with the dates on which 

 they began in the county : 



Parsons Pulp and Lumber Co., Horton, on Gandy Creek. .1894 



Holly Lumber Co., Pickens, on Buckhannon river 1900 



Tygart River Lumber Co., Millcreek, on Mill creek 1902 



Parsons Pulp & Lumber Co., Laneville, on Red creek 1905 



J. M. Bemis & Son, Bemis, on Shavers Fork 1905 



Glady Fork Lumber Co., Glady, on Glady Fork 1905 



Wheeler Lumber Co.. Glady, on Glady Fork 1905 



Moore, Keppel & Co., EUamore, on Middle Fork .1906 



Elkins Pail & Lumber Co., Elkins, on Tygarts Valley. . . .1906 



Brown & Hill, Montes, on Shavers Fork 1906 



Raine-Andrews Lumber Co., Evenwood, on Glady Fork... 1906 

 Perley & Crockett Lumber Co., Jenningston, on Dry Fork. .1906 



United Lumber Co., Hazelwood, on Dry Fork 1908 



Wyoming Lumber Co., Laneville, on Red creek 1908 



Laurel River Lumber Co., Jenningston, on Dry Fork 1909 



A few of the large lumber companies which have already 

 completed their operations in the county are given by Mr. C. W. 

 Maxwell, of Elkins, as foUow^s: Morribell Lumber Company, at 

 Morribell, 1901 to 1908; Beulah Lumber Company, at Beulah, 

 1901 to 1908; McClure, Tyson & Irvin, at Glady, 1901 to 1909; 

 J. B. Moore & Sons, at Gilman, 1901 to 1908; Mabie-McClure 



