. Forestry and wood industries . wned and operated alarge band mill built about 1880 and run until 1904, when it wastorn do^vn and moved to Mssissippi. This mill perhaps cutmore timber than any other mill that operated in the city. Since the building of the Coal and Coke railroad up theElk river most of the mills have quit business as their log supplycould not easily be maintained. These are some of the oldest mills which operated exten-sively from 1875 to 1905. A great deal of timber which cameout of the Elk river valley, from Kanawha county and frompoints farther up, was rafted and floated t
. Forestry and wood industries . wned and operated alarge band mill built about 1880 and run until 1904, when it wastorn do^vn and moved to Mssissippi. This mill perhaps cutmore timber than any other mill that operated in the city. Since the building of the Coal and Coke railroad up theElk river most of the mills have quit business as their log supplycould not easily be maintained. These are some of the oldest mills which operated exten-sively from 1875 to 1905. A great deal of timber which cameout of the Elk river valley, from Kanawha county and frompoints farther up, was rafted and floated to Gallapolis and Cin-cinnati where it was manufactured. The dates given in regardto these early operations may be a little off, but in the inain theyare correct. J. H. Diss Debar, Author of The West Virginia Hand Bookand Immigrants Guide published in 1870, speaks as follows ofa company that operated in Charleston: A company of enterprising Pennsylvanians, with a capitalof $300,000 under the corporate style of The Elk River Land,. CHIMNEY ROCK OVERLOOKING HARPERS FERRY AT BASE OF BLUERIDGE MOUNTAINS. WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 173 Improvement, Manufacturing and Boom Company obtained acharter for the exclusive privilege of booming Elk river and itstributaries, as far up as the mouth of Holly river, and are nowengaged in developing 80,000 acres of land in Webster and Brax-ton counties with saw mills, planing mills and business head-quarters at Charleston. One of the first operations of this company was the ship-ping of 10,000 feet of black walnut plank. The 5 band saw mills now operating in the county, exceptthe one located on Kelly creek, are sawing timber which is ob-tained from other counties. A number of small lumber and stavemills are engaged in sawing in various parts of the county. The Present Forest Conditions. The largest forests of the county lie in the eastern end andalong the southern border. There are about 8,800 acres remain-ing in virgin forest and 81,000 acre
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