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river at Arlington should be mentioned also as one of the pio- 

 neer stationary operations. 



A. G. Giffin began in the county by buying hickory. This 

 he sawed and shipped to Pennsylvania. Later he cut poplar 

 and other timber on his own mill and on several rented mills. 

 Still later he acquired the plant built by the Buckhannon River 

 Lumber Company at Buckhannon. Much lumber manufactured 

 by himself and by others in the region was dressed on his plan- 

 ing mill located in Buckhannon. His operations covered the 

 period from 1883 to 1891. 



The Buckhannon River Lumber Company came in soon 

 after the railroad was built to Buckhannon. This company 

 operated a circular mill at Buckhanon and another at Ten- 

 mile, and hired a third mill near the latter town. Many of 

 the logs for the Buckhannon mill and the lumber from the Ten- 

 mile mills were brought down the river on a tram-road. A large 

 number of logs were brought down from lands high up on the 

 Buckhannon river, some being floated and others hauled by 

 the company's locomotive after the West Virginia and Pitts- 

 burg railroad was extended to Newlon in 1891. About the 

 year 1892 the mill was sold to Winchester and Craddock, who 

 soon after remodeled it, installing a band in place of the circu- 

 lar saw. 



G. F. Stockert came to Upshur county from Lewis in 1888 

 and began operations with the Buckhannon River Lumber 

 Company. Later he and his brothers sawed on Little Bush run, 

 a tributary of French creek, and on Kanawha run a tributary 

 of the Little Kanawha river. He also cut about 8,000,000 feet 

 on Big run near the town of Alton. From there he went to 

 Panther Fork where he erected a large circular mill. Here, 

 from 1895 to 1900, he cut about 12,000,000 feet of fine timber 

 from a tract of 3,600 acres and then sold out to Isherwood and 

 Cody. Later he sawed near Alton and in other parts of the 

 county. At present he is superintending operations on the 

 Kanawha river near the town of Holly Grove. 



Alexander Lumber Company, with a band mill at Alex- 

 ander, cut timber from a large tract on the Left Fork of Buck- 

 hannon river between the years 1889 and 1894. 



