WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



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taining about 1,500 cubes and of yellow poplar about 2,000 

 cubes. 



A large number of logs, ties and staves have sunken to the 

 bottom of the Little Kanawha river in transit from all points 

 between Elizabeth and Burnsville. 



The Present Forest Conditions. 



Approximately 25 per cent of the county still remains in 

 woods. This, however, except about 6,000 acres in Burning 

 Spring district belonging to oil companies, is owned in small 

 boundaries as farmers' woodlots. The small quantity of mer- 

 chantable timber left standing is being taken out by portable 

 saw mills of which there are about 16 now in operation in the 

 county. 



WOOD COUNTY. 



Location and Area. 



Wood county, situated on the Ohio river, was formed in 

 1799 from part of Harrison. Since its formation Jackson, 

 Ritchie, Wirt, and Pleasants, the four West Virginia counties 

 which adjoin it, have been formed in part from the original 

 territory. Its area is 357 square miles or 228,480 acres. 



Topography. 



There are no special surface features which dijfferentiate 

 the Wood county area from that of the Ohio river counties 

 already described. The acreage of bottom land is relatively 

 greater in this county, however, than in some of the adjacent 

 ones, owing to the long frontage on the Ohio river and to the 

 passage through of the broad-valleyed Little Kanawha. 



The Ohio river flov/s at the western edge of the county for 

 a distance of about 40 miles, and the Little Kanawha river flows 

 northwest for half that distance, through the central section, 

 emptying into the Ohio at Parkersburg. Some of the smaller 

 tributaries of the Ohio river are Pond creek, Lee creek, and 

 Island creek, emptying south of Parkersburg; and Pond run, 



