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151. Spruce Forest Cut Over and Destroyed by Fire Near Davis, W. Va.

People standing by the remains of the Cherry River Boom and Lumber Co.

152. Fire at Cherry River Boom and Lumber Co. Mill

Remains of the Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company.

153. Fire at Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company Mill

Remains of the Cherry & Lumber Company.

154. Fire at Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company Mill

Group portrait of men sitting on a wooden bench.<br />

155. Logging Camp Crew of Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company

Bergoo, West Virginia; Lumber company building beside train tracks.<br /><br />

156. Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company Prior to Conversion to Electricity

Logs and lumber piles seen from a distance.

157. Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company Mill Yard, Bergoo, W. Va.

Portrait of crew with surveying equipment.

158. Survey Crew Working on Boundaries of Monongahela National Forest

A Pardee and Curtin Company operation.

159. Cutting Bridge Stringers for a Logging Railroad

Smoke emanating from burning mill at night.

160. Fire at Cherry River Boom and Lumber Co. Mill

Log Train passing along hillside.

161. Greenbrier, Cheat, and Elk Railroad Log Train

Pardee and Curtain Lumber operation. This tree, possibly a redwood, was used to build the Titanic. More info from Comstock's "Of Times Past", 1949.  Cut from Cuppernick ? Bend near Curtin, Nicholas County.

162. Loggers Posing in Front of Giant Tree Near Curtin, Nicholas County, W. Va.

Possibly a redwood tree used in building the "Titanic". Harvested by the Pardee and Curtin Lumber Co.The man on the left is John Harvey Reid.

163. Loggers Posing in Front of Giant Tree Near Curtin, Nicholas County, W. Va.

164. Team of William 'Bill' McCourt on Logging Road

Group of men pose at their camp site. None are identified.

165. Survey Crew Working on Boundaries of Monongahela National Forest

Group portrait of loggers with their tools.

166. Loggers in Pocahontas County, W. Va.

Men generally did not live in towns when they worked timber.  Instead, they came in from outlying areas, lived in groups in barracks, and went home over the weekends.  Here they lived in arks on the river.

167. Arks Tied on Greenbrier River Near Cass, W. Va.

Group portrait of lumber workers in front of building.

168. Lumber Workers at Logging Camp in Pocahontas County

169. Guy Dean and Horses at Home on HIlls Creek

170. Log Piles in front of Lumber Mill

171. Logging Crew at Work

Two men using lumber machinery next to a timbered hillside.  Pendleton Co.

172. Portable Sawmill Operation

Log train passing logging camp. Note Log Dump in Foreground, Mower Lumber Co.

173. Railroad Logging Camp,

Crane loading logs onto train.

174. Shay No. 4 in Woods with Log Crane, Mower Lumber Co.

175. Clearing Trees for Mower Lumber Co. Railway (Starting Grade Up Shavers Fork of Cheat River)

176. Log Loader Loading Flat Cars, Note Logs Lifted by Skidder, Mower Lumber Co.

Greenbrier River, Near Ronceverte, St. Lawrence Boom and Manufacturing Company, Greenbrier County.

177. Log Boom

178. Log Loading in the Forest

Same chamber is used when wood is treated with osmosalts.

179. Pressure Chamber with Creosoted Logs Coming Out

Plant also planes, bores, squares ends of big timbers.

180. Pole Peeler is One of Several B-P-B Dressing Operations

The light machinery used in milling allows the mobile portable mill to penetrate the heart of the stand.

181. Mobile Portable Saw Mill and Crew at Work

The portable mill cuts lumber and ties and does custom sawing for farmers.

182. Mobile Portable Saw Mill

183. Mobile Portable Saw Mill and Crew at Work

184. Mobile Portable Saw Mill

Train engine on tracks in forest.

185. Shay in Woods Near End of Track, Mower Lumber Co.

Men working with mill equipment.  L to R  1. Setter, William Simmons (sawed the last log at Cass July 1, 1960)  2. Oliver Tyson  3. unknown.

186. Cass Mill Interior, Mower Lumber Co.

Log train passing log pond.

187. Cass Mill Log Pond, Mower Lumber Co.

188. Benjamin Jackson Measures Log at Cass Mill, Mower Lumber Co.

Men direct floating logs on the pond as a log train passes.

189. Cass Mill Log Pond, Mower Lumber Co.

Train engine and crane working in log yard.

190. Shay No. 4 in Woods with Log Crane, Mower Lumber Co.

Man walking on a dirt road bordered by tree stumps.

191. Log Trail, Meadow River Lumber Co.

Log skidder and log piles.

192. Log Skidder, Meadow River Lumber Co.

193. Log Skidder, Meadow River Lumber Co.

Picture of stumps and felled trees.

194. Deforestation Scene, Meadow River Lumber Co.

195. Dozer Pulling Logs to Log Dump, Meadow River Lumber Co.

196. Dozer Pulling Logs to Log Dump, Meadow River Lumber Co.

197. Climax Locomotive of New Dominion Lumber Co., Diana, W. Va.

Diana, West Virginia.  Two men standing in front of train engine.

198. Locomotive Eva Lee, New Dominion Lumber Company

199. Log Skidder, Meadow River Lumber Co.

Three men sorting lumber.  L to R, 1. Alex Duncan 2. Sherwin Lambert 3. Cammern Ware.

200. Cass Mill Interior, Mower Lumber Company, Cass, W. Va.