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Pocahontas : scattered trees and young groves on Knapps, 

 Deer, and Sitlington creeks, and on other eastern 

 tributaries of the Greenbrier river. 



Preston : distributed in eastern and northern sections. Few 

 trees in pine swamp near Cranesville. 



Ealeigh: on Piney river and Glade creek. Two small vir- 

 gin areas still remain. Cut-over forests badly burn- 

 ed in most places. 



Ritchie : Harrisville, Smithville and other stations. Grow- 

 ing with yellow pine and deciduous trees. 



Summers: small number of trees near the mouth of Blue- 

 stone river and at other stations on south and east. 



Tucker: few trees on Cheat waters in vicinity of St. 

 George. 



Tyler: sparse growth. 



Wetzel :f ew trees. 



Wirt : infrequent. 

 Wood. — Soft, straight-grained, easily worked, light, not strong. 

 Uses. — ^Valuable wood for interior finish, foir fixtures, shelving, 



cupboards, etc. Used frequently for shingles, for boxes, 



barrels and tanks, for numerous cabinet shop articles, and 



for excelsior and pattern making. Much of the white pine 



growing in the counties back from the Ohio river was cut 



for ship timber. 



PINUS RIGIDA, Mill. Pitch Pine. "Bull Pine". "Rosin-tree." 



Geographic Distribution. 



Sandy plains and dry gravelly uplands, or less frequently cold 

 deep swamps; valley of St. Johns river in New Brunswick to the 

 northern shores of Lake Ontario, southward in the Atlantic 

 states to northern Georgia; crossing the Alleghany Mountains to 

 their western foothills in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ten- 

 nessee; very abundant on the Atlantic coast south of Massa- 

 chusetts Bay; often forming extensive forests in southern New 

 Jersey. 



Distrihution -in West Virginia. — Found locally on dry hills in 

 the following counties: Boone, Braxton, Clay, Doddridge, 

 Fayette, Gilmer, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, 

 Kanawha, Logan, Mercer, Monroe, iMingo, McDowell, Nieh- 

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