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CONDITIONS BY COUNTIES. 



Black Gums . . 

 Black Walnuts 



1,044 

 393 

 943 

 240 

 271 

 28 

 13 

 3,472 

 903 



Red Oaks 

 Cucumbers 

 Ashes . . . 



Buckeyes 

 Sycamores 



Pines, (probably Pitch Pines) 

 Hemlocks 



Whole number of trees 



128,567 



There was but little hemlock on the Big Sandy and on the 

 lower half of Twelvepole and none on the Ohio river. There was 

 a scattered growth of pitch and jersey pine and red cedar. * 

 Cedars grew, and are still growing, most abundantly in 2 belts 

 of land which extend across the county from east to west, 1 about 

 2 miles wide passing through the center, and another about 1 

 mile wide 7 miles north of this. 



The timber of the county has been cut first, by the early 

 settlers who used a little and destroyed much ; second, by farmers 

 and lumbermen who drifted and rafted logs on the Big Sandy 

 river and on Twelvepole creek; and third, by operators of saw 

 mills in the county. A large number of logs were cut by the 

 owners of small tracts of land and rafted to the Ohio river where 

 they were bought by lumber companies and taken in fleets to 

 southern points. In later years C. Crane and Company, of Cin- 

 cinnati, and other companies, bought stumpage along the streams 

 and rafted out their logs. 



From 1875 to 1884 many split staves were cut and delivered 

 to the banks of the streams to Oxley Stave Company of Cincin- 

 nati, and to Dixon and Barr. These companies drifted the 

 staves to the mouth of Twelvepole where they were caught in a 

 boon and loaded into barges. Much of the best oak in the 

 county was used and much was wasted in the stave industry. 



The pioneer saw mill operators were the Smiths who came 



The Lumber Industry. 



