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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