. Forestry and wood industries . metrical canon, known as the Trough. The Lost riverflows several miles northwestward and parallel with the south-eastern line of the county. A short distance above the town ofWardensville the river disappears under a hill, reappearing amile or more below. Below this underground or lost portionof the channel, which gives the upper course of the stream itsname, the river is known as Cacapon or Great Caeapon throughthe counties of Hampshire and Morgan. The North river, a largetributary of the Cacapon, rises in the northern end of Hardycounty. Original Timber Condi
. Forestry and wood industries . metrical canon, known as the Trough. The Lost riverflows several miles northwestward and parallel with the south-eastern line of the county. A short distance above the town ofWardensville the river disappears under a hill, reappearing amile or more below. Below this underground or lost portionof the channel, which gives the upper course of the stream itsname, the river is known as Cacapon or Great Caeapon throughthe counties of Hampshire and Morgan. The North river, a largetributary of the Cacapon, rises in the northern end of Hardycounty. Original Timber Conditions. As a whole, the county was not heavily timbered. The prin-cipal valleys and the rich mountain coves, however, once con-tained a dense stand of oaks, hickories, walnuts, ash, basswood,and many other hardwoods. The timber has been removed fromnearly all the bottom lands but a few remaining virgin wood-lots furnish evidence of the superiority of the valley to about 1891 the county contained a considerable quantity. WEST VIEGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 157 of good pine. White oak and chestnut oak were the leadingtimbers, both growing abundantly, the former in nearly all sec-tions and the latter on dry ridges and exposed mountain stand of timber per acre on the remaining virgin tractsvaries from about 500 feet to 5,000 feet. A stand of timber farin excess of this once occupied the rich lands that have beencleared for agricultural purposes. The original forests of the county, as indicated by the largevirgin areas still to be found on some of the mountains and inthe farmers woodlots, were preeminently forests of oak. The12 species of oaks named below were observed during a 2 hoursdrive near Moorefield on September 10th, 1909: Red Oak (Quercus rubra). Pin Oak (Quercus palustris). Scarlet Oak (Quercus coccinea). Black Oak (Quercus velutina). Scrub Oak (Quercus nana). Shingle Oak (Quercus imbricaria). White Oak (Quercus alba). Post Oak (Quercus minor). Mossy-cup O
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