. Forestry and wood industries . in 1873 at Mace on the Dry fork of Elk byDan, John, and Jake Garber, who came from Augusta county,Yirginia. The cherry lumber sawed at this place was hauled onwagons over Elk mountain and rafted down the Greenbrierriver to Ronceverte. About 1875 John Marshall, also from Augusta county,moved a steam saw mill into Lower Pocahontas where it was inoperation for some time. This mill is remembered by LeviWaugh as it stood near the town of Buckeye covered with mudafter the flood of 1877. The first steam saw milling in the Dunmore section wasdone by a man by the name o
. Forestry and wood industries . in 1873 at Mace on the Dry fork of Elk byDan, John, and Jake Garber, who came from Augusta county,Yirginia. The cherry lumber sawed at this place was hauled onwagons over Elk mountain and rafted down the Greenbrierriver to Ronceverte. About 1875 John Marshall, also from Augusta county,moved a steam saw mill into Lower Pocahontas where it was inoperation for some time. This mill is remembered by LeviWaugh as it stood near the town of Buckeye covered with mudafter the flood of 1877. The first steam saw milling in the Dunmore section wasdone by a man by the name of Sherman. In 1830 Albert L. Whitmore started a steam saw mill in thecounty, and in 1882 Capt. Lokin, John Peters and Pritchard be-gan to operate a mill of the same kind at Clover Lick. CharlesCallison located a steam saw mill in the Levels in 1885, and inthe following year Uriah Bird, McClintic and Peters began an-other operation. After this James Gibson commenced a portablesaw mill operation which he continued for many WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 245 Other operators who deserve mention in connection with theportable saw mill industry prior to the coming of the railroads,are J. N. White, Jiles Sharp, Andy Wooddell, S. M. Gay, FrankDilley and N. S. Duffield. Most of the valuable black walnut that grew on the low-lands of the county was cut and floated out on the Greenbrierduring the decade from 1880 to 1890. Considerable white pine was cut, not only by means of thewhip saw and water saw mills before mentioned, but for fencerails, shingles, puncheons, hewed frame timbers, and for allmanner of wooden articles used about the homes of the earlysettlers. During a visit to the white pine region about Hunters-ville in the fall of 1909 Dr. A. D. Hopkins, of Washington, D,C, was informed that not less than 100 miles of worm fencehad been built of white pine rails in that immediate vicinity. The first white pine that was cut in large quantities forcommercial purposes was flo
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