. Forestry and wood industries . g and Ashland^ Kentucky, and to Iron-ton, Ohio. The remainder was taken by lumbermen. Thelargest rafters have been The Yellow Poplar Lumber Com-pany, Portsmouth, Ohio; The Little Kanawha Lumber Com-pany, Ironton, Ohio; and C. Crane and Company, Cincinnati,Ohio. The first 2 companies named rafted logs and manufac-tured them on their mills from 1892 to 1899. C. Crane andCompany began a little later and are still cutting timber takenfrom the southern counties on 3 band mills located in Cincin-nati. During the past 30 years great numbers of logs have beenrafted out
. Forestry and wood industries . g and Ashland^ Kentucky, and to Iron-ton, Ohio. The remainder was taken by lumbermen. Thelargest rafters have been The Yellow Poplar Lumber Com-pany, Portsmouth, Ohio; The Little Kanawha Lumber Com-pany, Ironton, Ohio; and C. Crane and Company, Cincinnati,Ohio. The first 2 companies named rafted logs and manufac-tured them on their mills from 1892 to 1899. C. Crane andCompany began a little later and are still cutting timber takenfrom the southern counties on 3 band mills located in Cincin-nati. During the past 30 years great numbers of logs have beenrafted out of Pigeon creek to Catlettsburg by W. J. William-son. There were only a few saw mills in the county before thebuilding of the Norfolk and Western Railroad. Since thattime they have been numerous. The following were largeoperations: Baker Lumber Company, with a band mill at Sads Land-ing, sawed in 1895 and 1896. Hutchinson Lumber and Manufacturing Company cut tim-ber on Marrowbone and Laurel creeks from 1903 to 1907. ^, I .^, \l.
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