. Forestry and wood industries . e southwestern part is drained by the waters ofKiah creek, a tributary of the Left fork of Twelvepole. The Original Forests. The original hardwood forests of the county were equal instand and quality to those of any other section of the state. It isdoubtful, indeed, if black walnut trees of such unusual size andperfection could have been found anywhere else in West Vir-ginia. J. M. Anderson cut a figured walnut which is said to havemeasured 7 feet in diameter and 80 feet to the first limb. It isstated that figured trees were common and that many were cutwhich e
. Forestry and wood industries . e southwestern part is drained by the waters ofKiah creek, a tributary of the Left fork of Twelvepole. The Original Forests. The original hardwood forests of the county were equal instand and quality to those of any other section of the state. It isdoubtful, indeed, if black walnut trees of such unusual size andperfection could have been found anywhere else in West Vir-ginia. J. M. Anderson cut a figured walnut which is said to havemeasured 7 feet in diameter and 80 feet to the first limb. It isstated that figured trees were common and that many were cutwhich equaled, or nearly equaled, in size the one mentioned growth of yellow poplars, also, was almost phenomenal. Areliable citizens of Logan asserts that he saw and obtainedmeasurements of a tree of this species 12 feet in diameter andwith a long trunk which tapered evenly and moderately to thecrown. Below are given the approximate percentages of timber treesgrowing on two virgin tracts lying on opposite sides of 25 per cent. Hickory Beech and others J The stand on a 13,000 acre tract on Guyandot river and Richcreek is as follows: Oaks (principally White Oak) 50 per cent. Yellow Poplar ] Cucumber >• 25 per cent. Basswood 1 Hickory Chestnut Maples Beech \ 25 per cent, Birch Locust Hemlock, and others, Hemlock, pitch pine and red cedar were the only were not uncommon along the water courses and pitchpines were occasionally seen growing on dry ridges. Hemlockwas more or less common in the stream channels of the easternpart of the county but rare in the western part. The Early Lumber Industry. Prior to the completion of the Guyandot Valley Branch ofthe Chesapeake and Ohio railroad to Logan in 1904, the Guyan-dot river furnished the only practicable me
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