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Pendleton : scattered on mountain faces and in coves. 



Putnam: few on hills. 



Ritchie: once plentiful, now infrequent. 



Tyler: once plentiful, now infrequent. 



Wetzel: head of Piney Fork, few. 



Wirt : distributed along the hills on both sides of the Lit- 

 tle Kanawha. 

 Wood: only a few trees. 



Wood. — Hard, heavy, coarse-grained, yellowish. 



Uses. — A valuable timber tree, now nearly exhausted. Wood 

 used for house finish, boxes, crates and barrels, farming 

 implements, and furniture. Cut in Tyler, Jackson, and 

 other Ohio river counties for masts, spars, and other tim- 

 bers for ships. 



PINUS VIRGINIANA, Mill. Jersey Pine. Scrub Pine. 



Geographic Distribution. 



Long Island, New York, southward generally near the coast to 

 the valley of the Savannah river, Georgia, to northeastern Ala- 

 bama and through eastern and middle Tennessee and Kentucky 

 to southern Indiana; usually small in the Atlantic states and 

 only on light sandy soil, spreading rapidly over exhausted fields; 

 attaining its largest size west of the Alleghany mountains on 

 the low hills of southern Indiana. 



Distribution in West Virginia. — 



Barbour : a few scattered trees along Tygarts Valley river. 



Berkeley : abundant on poor hills. 



Boone : few trees on hills near Madison. 



Fayette: clumps at Kanawha Falls. 



Grant: common east of mountains. 



Hampshire: abundant. The prevailing softwood. 



Hardy : common on sandy hills. 



Jefferson : found in sandy soils in western part. 



Kanawha: few on hills. 



Logan: found on hill near Logan Court House. 

 Mercer: trees found at Spanishburg. 



Monongalia : several acres of pure stand near Dellslow. on 

 Deckers creek. 



