. Forestry and wood industries . of coves the yellow pines grew to a large size. Oaks,including white oak, chestnut oak and black oak, were dis-tributed over the whole county. Other common timber treeswere beech, chestnut, hickory and walnut. There were scat-tered clumps of white pine here and there and fringes of hem-locks grew along the colder streams. Christopher Gist, who passed with his ^exploring partydown the North Fork of Hughes river in February, 1752, speaksof the land near Harrisville as rich and well timbered withlofty Walnuts, Ash, Sugar trees, etc. but hilly in most places. The L
. Forestry and wood industries . of coves the yellow pines grew to a large size. Oaks,including white oak, chestnut oak and black oak, were dis-tributed over the whole county. Other common timber treeswere beech, chestnut, hickory and walnut. There were scat-tered clumps of white pine here and there and fringes of hem-locks grew along the colder streams. Christopher Gist, who passed with his ^exploring partydown the North Fork of Hughes river in February, 1752, speaksof the land near Harrisville as rich and well timbered withlofty Walnuts, Ash, Sugar trees, etc. but hilly in most places. The Lumber Industry. The 2 principal outlets for the timber of Ritchie county-are Hughes river and the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Rafting and floating have progressed in the lower end ofthe county from about 1840 to the present. During the earlyyears of water transportation all logs were rafted; but for 20years or more logs have been floated loose and caught in is stated that most of the timber cut from all points 10 miles. WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 269 south from the main line of railroad has gone out on the water,principally in the log and not as sawed lumber. Before the completion of the Baltimore and Ohio railroadthrough the county and to Parkersburg in 1857 there had beena lumber industry that supplied local demands only, except thata quantity of hoop-poles and tan bark had been hauled in wag-ons to St. Marys on the Ohio river, and that considerable raft-ing had been done on the lower water courses. There were several water-power sash saw mills running inthe county during its early settlement. Some of those on theNorth Fork of Hughes river were Malones mill, near Harris-ville, and Liggetts mill, Heatons mill and McGregors mill, atother points below. Besides these there were the 2 Wells millsand 4 others belonging to a man by the name of Preble. On theSouth Fork were the Hugil mill, the Nebbo mill, and the Sen-nett mill. A more active lumber industry began with
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