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White Oak 35 per cent. 



Yellow Poplar 25 per cent. 



Chestnut Oak 10 per cent. 



Yellow Pine 10 per cent. 



Beech 5 per cent. 



Hickory . 5 per cent. 



Chestnut 



Red Oak 



Black Oak 



White Ash 



Basswood 



Cucumber 



Sycamore , 



> 10 per cent. 

 White Elm ^ 



Black Walnut 



White Walnut 



Birch 



Locust 



White Pine 



Hemlock 



The Lumber Industry. 



Previous to 1873 no timber had been removed from the in- 

 terior of the county. Owners of woodland lying adjacent to the 

 river, however, had been engaged for a number of years in cut- 

 ting yellov/ poplar, yellow pine and other valuable timbers and 

 rafting the logs to Parkersburg where they were sold to operat- 

 ors there and through dealers to other operators along the Ohio 

 river. The Parkersburg Mill Company has drawn upon the 

 supply of timber along the Little Kanawha since 1854, taking 

 the very best trees at a low price in the earlier years of their 

 operation. Other operators who bought rafts from Wirt county 

 were C. Crane & Company and Geo. Rettig of Cincinnati : J. R. 

 Timms, West Fork Lumber Company ; Geo. Crawford, INIarietta 

 Chair Company; D. M. Miller and, later, Burns Brothers and 

 Huffman, and McCoy Lumber Company at Elizabeth. The mills 

 of the companies and, individuals named above were supplied 



