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Large trees and forest bottom.(Pocahontas County?)

1. Virgin Spruce Forest Near Head of the North Fork of the Cherry River

Lumber mill in operation on edge of log pond.

2. Lumber Mill at Dobbin, W. Va.

Men stand on a Shay locomotive hauling a train of cars filled with logs.

3. Shay Logging Train and Crew

Operating mill of the Davis Babcock Lumber company.

4. Davis Babcock Lumber Company Mill and Pond

5. Davis Babcock Lumber Company Mill and Pond

The Jacob L. Rumbarger Lumber Company's Shay locomotive, No. 1 and crew unloading logs.

6. Train Unloading Logs at Black Water Branch of Cheat River

Logging crew loading truck.

7. Logging Scene in Forest

8. Teamsters Transporting Logs

Postcard of train on Dobbin Line pulling log cars, Dobbin W.Va.

9. Train on the Dobbin Line

Stumps and logs of a cleared out area.  Camp and log train in background.

10. Deforested Area After Logging

Two Lumbermen stand with saw behind a large poplar log.  Gibson, Albright. W. Va

11. Loggers Posing with a West Virginia Poplar

A giant Chestnut when they were alive - before the blight.  This tree was over six feet in diameter on the stump when cut.

12. Giant Chestnut at Desert Fork

13. Shay No. 4, Chaffey's Log Engine, William, W. Va.

Train pulling lumber carts in Dobbin, W.Va.

14. Shay No. 2 on the Dobbin Line

Circular Stream Saw Mill on Harper Anderson Place- 1 mile east of Lobelia, Pocahontas County, W.V.  Product was blanks for Barrel Stands.  Property owned  by Peter M. Hauer in 1975.

15. Circular Stream Saw Mill and Crew

Loggers pose with their horses.

16. Horse Teams in a Logging Camp

17. Loggers Cutting Down a Tree

The Jacob L. Rumbarger Lumber Company Shay No. 1 hauling log cars. Crew rolls logs into the water from the train.

18. Log Train Unloading at Blackwater Branch of Cheat River

Three logs being lifted by a crane.

19. Log Crane at Work

Four men standing in front of the side of a train engine.

20. Locomotive and Crew

Lumber piles beside a train track.  Man sitting on top of one lumber pile.  Original from Homer Floyd Fansler, Hendricks, W.Va.

21. Lumber Yard in Tucker County, W. Va.

Mill with six smoke stacks visible.

22. Lumber Mill

23. Mill, Power Plant, and Planing Mill at Rainelle, W. Va.

View from behind a log truck driving in the snow.

24. Log Truck in Winter

Tractor beside scraps of wood at unidentified lumber mill.

25. Steam Tractor

Train engine beside a hillside.  Man in the cabin of the train with W. M. on the Door.

26. Locomotive

Train engine going around a bend while pulling logs.

27. Shay No. 3 Pulling Log Cars

28. Locomotive and Train With Pulp Cars

Man standing on top of logs.  'Sound logs of good quality are obtained from Appalachian hardwoods.  Selective logging and protection of young growth will insure continuous supplies of such logs.'

29. Portable Sawmill and Operator

'A small dimension mill could utilize much material now wholly wasted.'

30. Wood Scraps at Sawmill

Class C Shay.  Shay train engine no. 11 pulling log carts.  Men are in the cabin.  Two people walking beside the train.

31. Shay No. 11 and Log Cars

Mill was located at Glenray, W. Va.- one mile west of Alderson, W. Va.  Alderson is located in Greenbrier County on the Summer and Monroe County Borders.

32. Glenray Lumber Co. Teamsters and Crew Skidding Logs on Keeney's Knob

No. 2 Climax Engine pulling lumber carts.

33. Log Train of South Fork Lumber Co. near Moorefield, W. Va.

Tracks converge in the forest.

34. Logging Railroad Switch Back, Meadow River Lumber Co.

Lumber mill and pond. Three smoke stacks visible.  Greenbrier County.

35. Lumber Mill at Rainelle, W. Va.

Lumber mill and log pond.  Rainelle, W.V.  Built 1910.

36. Meadow River Lumber Company, Rainelle, W. Va.

37. Lumber Yard at Rainelle, W. Va.

Back of the mill.  Log slide down to the log pond.

38. Lumber Mill at Nallen, W. Va.

Lumber mill and tracks.

39. Lumber Mill at Rainelle, W. Va.

Train track in the middle of lumber piles.  Rainelle, W.V.

40. Lumber Yard and Loading Docks at Rainelle, W. Va.

One of the last teams on Cheat Mountain.  Mower Lumber Company.  Location: Shavers Fork of Cheat.

41. Teamsters Pulling Logs Out of Woods to Dump, Mower Lumber Company

Four horses pulling a large log.   Neither the store nor the railroad building are still standing today.

42. 10 Foot by 4 Foot Oak Log Delivered to the C& O Railroad Station at Seibert, Pocahontas County.

Forest beside a train track near Glady, W.Va.

43. Glady on the Way Down to Wheeler, W.Va.

Many lumber piles in Rainelle, W.Va.

44. Lumber Yard and Docks at Rainelle, W. Va.

Cleared out area and mill.  Rainelle, W.V.

45. Planing Mill at Rainelle, W. Va.

Lumber piles on a covered dock.

46. Lumber Drying Kiln at Rainelle, W. Va.

Mill and log pond in Mill Creek, W.Va.

47. Wilson Lumber Company Mill at Mill Creek, W. Va.

Lumber mill with four smokestacks visible.  Also lumber piles.

48. Lumber Mill at Ellamore, W. Va.

Lumber mill in Erwin, W.Va.

49. Glade Lumber Company Mill at Erwin, W. Va.

Train engine hauling logs.  Workers standing on logs.  Maben Mill, Raleigh County. "Mrs. J.C. Prince"

50. Climax Engine No. 303 at Warden, W.Va.