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

73. Survey Crew Working on Boundaries of Monongahela National Forest

Group portrait of loggers with their tools.

74. 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.

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

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

76. Railroad Logging Camp,

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

77. Log Boom

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

78. 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.

79. Mobile Portable Saw Mill and Crew at Work

80. Mobile Portable Saw Mill

Train engine on tracks in forest.

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

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

Log skidder and log piles.

83. Log Skidder, Meadow River Lumber Co.

84. Log Skidder, Meadow River Lumber Co.