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The wood of blight killed chestnut if used within five years is suitable for ties or lumber. Narrow and standard guage railroads constitute the farmers market for his tie timber.

145. Forest Road

IDNO:
000146
Title:
Forest Road
Date:
undated
Description:
The wood of blight killed chestnut if used within five years is suitable for ties or lumber. Narrow and standard guage railroads constitute the farmers market for his tie timber.

146. Train Wreck in Nicholas County Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company

IDNO:
000147
Title:
Train Wreck in Nicholas County Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company
Date:
1912
Collapsed bridge and wreck of train box cars.

147. Collapsed Railroad Bridge, Babcock L. SB. Company

IDNO:
000148
Title:
Collapsed Railroad Bridge, Babcock L. SB. Company
Date:
undated
Description:
Collapsed bridge and wreck of train box cars.
Heavily logged area near train tracks.

148. Wasteful Deforestation on Cheat Mountain.

IDNO:
000149
Title:
Wasteful Deforestation on Cheat Mountain.
Date:
undated
Description:
Heavily logged area near train tracks.
Men working on wrecked train.

149. Wreck of Eva Lee

IDNO:
000150
Title:
Wreck of Eva Lee
Date:
undated
Description:
Men working on wrecked train.

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

IDNO:
000151
Title:
Spruce Forest Cut Over and Destroyed by Fire Near Davis, W. Va.
Date:
undated
People standing by the remains of the Cherry River Boom and Lumber Co.

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

IDNO:
000152
Title:
Fire at Cherry River Boom and Lumber Co. Mill
Date:
1924/04/12
Description:
People standing by the remains of the Cherry River Boom and Lumber Co.
Remains of the Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company.

152. Fire at Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company Mill

IDNO:
000153
Title:
Fire at Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company Mill
Date:
1924/12/04
Description:
Remains of the Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company.
Remains of the Cherry & Lumber Company.

153. Fire at Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company Mill

IDNO:
000154
Title:
Fire at Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company Mill
Date:
1924/12/04
Description:
Remains of the Cherry & Lumber Company.
Group portrait of men sitting on a wooden bench.<br />

154. Logging Camp Crew of Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company

IDNO:
000155
Title:
Logging Camp Crew of Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company
Date:
undated
Description:
Group portrait of men sitting on a wooden bench.
Bergoo, West Virginia; Lumber company building beside train tracks.<br /><br />

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

IDNO:
000156
Title:
Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company Prior to Conversion to Electricity
Date:
ca. 1938
Description:
Bergoo, West Virginia; Lumber company building beside train tracks.

Logs and lumber piles seen from a distance.

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

IDNO:
000157
Title:
Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company Mill Yard, Bergoo, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1930
Description:
Logs and lumber piles seen from a distance.
Portrait of crew with surveying equipment.

157. Survey Crew Working on Boundaries of Monongahela National Forest

IDNO:
000158
Title:
Survey Crew Working on Boundaries of Monongahela National Forest
Date:
ca. 1930
Description:
Portrait of crew with surveying equipment.
A Pardee and Curtin Company operation.

158. Cutting Bridge Stringers for a Logging Railroad

IDNO:
000159
Title:
Cutting Bridge Stringers for a Logging Railroad
Date:
1933-1934
Description:
A Pardee and Curtin Company operation.
Smoke emanating from burning mill at night.

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

IDNO:
000160
Title:
Fire at Cherry River Boom and Lumber Co. Mill
Date:
1924/12/04
Description:
Smoke emanating from burning mill at night.
Log Train passing along hillside.

160. Greenbrier, Cheat, and Elk Railroad Log Train

IDNO:
000161
Title:
Greenbrier, Cheat, and Elk Railroad Log Train
Date:
ca. 1916
Description:
Log Train passing along hillside.
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.

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

IDNO:
000162
Title:
Loggers Posing in Front of Giant Tree Near Curtin, Nicholas County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1890-1910
Description:
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.
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.

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

IDNO:
000163
Title:
Loggers Posing in Front of Giant Tree Near Curtin, Nicholas County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1890-1910
Description:
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. Team of William 'Bill' McCourt on Logging Road

IDNO:
000164
Title:
Team of William 'Bill' McCourt on Logging Road
Date:
1933-34
Group of men pose at their camp site. None are identified.

164. Survey Crew Working on Boundaries of Monongahela National Forest

IDNO:
000165
Title:
Survey Crew Working on Boundaries of Monongahela National Forest
Date:
undated
Description:
Group of men pose at their camp site. None are identified.
Group portrait of loggers with their tools.

165. Loggers in Pocahontas County, W. Va.

IDNO:
000166
Title:
Loggers in Pocahontas County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1900
Description:
Group portrait of loggers with their tools.
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.

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

IDNO:
000167
Title:
Arks Tied on Greenbrier River Near Cass, W. Va.
Date:
1898
Description:
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.
Group portrait of lumber workers in front of building.

167. Lumber Workers at Logging Camp in Pocahontas County

IDNO:
000168
Title:
Lumber Workers at Logging Camp in Pocahontas County
Date:
ca. 1900
Description:
Group portrait of lumber workers in front of building.

168. Guy Dean and Horses at Home on HIlls Creek

IDNO:
000169
Title:
Guy Dean and Horses at Home on HIlls Creek
Date:
1930

169. Log Piles in front of Lumber Mill

IDNO:
000170
Title:
Log Piles in front of Lumber Mill
Date:
undated

170. Logging Crew at Work

IDNO:
000171
Title:
Logging Crew at Work
Date:
ca. 1900
Two men using lumber machinery next to a timbered hillside. Pendleton Co.

171. Portable Sawmill Operation

IDNO:
000172
Title:
Portable Sawmill Operation
Date:
1939/11/01
Description:
Two men using lumber machinery next to a timbered hillside. Pendleton Co.
Log train passing logging camp. Note Log Dump in Foreground, Mower Lumber Co.

172. Railroad Logging Camp,

IDNO:
000173
Title:
Railroad Logging Camp,
Date:
1946/08/07
Description:
Log train passing logging camp. Note Log Dump in Foreground, Mower Lumber Co.
Crane loading logs onto train.

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

IDNO:
000174
Title:
Shay No. 4 in Woods with Log Crane, Mower Lumber Co.
Date:
1945/11/10
Description:
Crane loading logs onto train.

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

IDNO:
000175
Title:
Clearing Trees for Mower Lumber Co. Railway (Starting Grade Up Shavers Fork of Cheat River)
Date:
1946/08/07

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

IDNO:
000176
Title:
Log Loader Loading Flat Cars, Note Logs Lifted by Skidder, Mower Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/08/07
Greenbrier River, Near Ronceverte, St. Lawrence Boom and Manufacturing Company, Greenbrier County.

176. Log Boom

IDNO:
000177
Title:
Log Boom
Date:
undated
Description:
Greenbrier River, Near Ronceverte, St. Lawrence Boom and Manufacturing Company, Greenbrier County.

177. Log Loading in the Forest

IDNO:
000178
Title:
Log Loading in the Forest
Date:
ca. 1901
Same chamber is used when wood is treated with osmosalts.

178. Pressure Chamber with Creosoted Logs Coming Out

IDNO:
000179
Title:
Pressure Chamber with Creosoted Logs Coming Out
Description:
Same chamber is used when wood is treated with osmosalts.
Plant also planes, bores, squares ends of big timbers.

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

IDNO:
000180
Title:
Pole Peeler is One of Several B-P-B Dressing Operations
Date:
undated
Description:
Plant also planes, bores, squares ends of big timbers.
The light machinery used in milling allows the mobile portable mill to penetrate the heart of the stand.

180. Mobile Portable Saw Mill and Crew at Work

IDNO:
000181
Title:
Mobile Portable Saw Mill and Crew at Work
Date:
undated
Description:
The light machinery used in milling allows the mobile portable mill to penetrate the heart of the stand.
The portable mill cuts lumber and ties and does custom sawing for farmers.

181. Mobile Portable Saw Mill

IDNO:
000182
Title:
Mobile Portable Saw Mill
Date:
undated
Description:
The portable mill cuts lumber and ties and does custom sawing for farmers.

182. Mobile Portable Saw Mill and Crew at Work

IDNO:
000183
Title:
Mobile Portable Saw Mill and Crew at Work
Date:
undated

183. Mobile Portable Saw Mill

IDNO:
000184
Title:
Mobile Portable Saw Mill
Date:
undated
Train engine on tracks in forest.

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

IDNO:
000185
Title:
Shay in Woods Near End of Track, Mower Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/08/07
Description:
Train engine on tracks in forest.
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.

185. Cass Mill Interior, Mower Lumber Co.

IDNO:
000186
Title:
Cass Mill Interior, Mower Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/08/07
Description:
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.
Log train passing log pond.

186. Cass Mill Log Pond, Mower Lumber Co.

IDNO:
000187
Title:
Cass Mill Log Pond, Mower Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/05/20
Description:
Log train passing log pond.

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

IDNO:
000188
Title:
Benjamin Jackson Measures Log at Cass Mill, Mower Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/08/07
Men direct floating logs on the pond as a log train passes.

188. Cass Mill Log Pond, Mower Lumber Co.

IDNO:
000189
Title:
Cass Mill Log Pond, Mower Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/08/07
Description:
Men direct floating logs on the pond as a log train passes.
Train engine and crane working in log yard.

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

IDNO:
000190
Title:
Shay No. 4 in Woods with Log Crane, Mower Lumber Co.
Date:
1945/11/10
Description:
Train engine and crane working in log yard.
Man walking on a dirt road bordered by tree stumps.

190. Log Trail, Meadow River Lumber Co.

IDNO:
000191
Title:
Log Trail, Meadow River Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/08/07
Description:
Man walking on a dirt road bordered by tree stumps.
Log skidder and log piles.

191. Log Skidder, Meadow River Lumber Co.

IDNO:
000192
Title:
Log Skidder, Meadow River Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/05/20
Description:
Log skidder and log piles.

192. Log Skidder, Meadow River Lumber Co.

IDNO:
000193
Title:
Log Skidder, Meadow River Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/05/20