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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.

C.H. Akers, engineer (front) with other unidentifed railroad men.

51. Logging in the Crow, Beaver, Blue Jay Region

Train carrying logs and a crane.  Men working with crane in the background.

52. Log Train at Crow, W. Va.

53. Teamsters and Horse Drawn Carts, Morgantown, W. Va.

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

54. Farmer and Sons Chopping Wood

Likely Centralia.

55. Horses Pulling Rail Cars Loaded with Logs, Webster County, W. Va.

Workers, working horses and others in what seems to be a lumber mill.

56. Lumber Men and Teamsters with their Horses at a Mill in Webster County

57. Horses Pulling Rail Cars Loaded with Logs, Webster County, W. Va.

58. Sawmill Crew and Visitors, Webster County, W. Va.

59. Loggers and Teamsters with their Horses, Webster County, W. Va.

A view of Hominy Mill (Double Band Mill) at Hominy Falls, Nicholas County.

60. Hominy Lumber Mill, Hominy Falls, W. Va.

A view of log dump; unidentified workers stand on piled logs.

61. Log Dump

A view of Deer Creek Mill (Single Band Mill) in Nicholas County.

62. Deer Creek Mill, West Virginia

63. Logging in Nicholas County, W. Va.

This photograph was published in "Tumult on the Mountain" by Roy Clarkson. The caption included, "Red spruce trees dwarf the lumberjacks who are soon to cut them... on the lands of the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company."

64. Red Spruce Trees and Lumberjacks, Cheat Mountain, Pocahontas County, W. Va.

This photograph was published in "Tumult on the Mountain" by Roy Clarkson and identified as: "The men shown here are Howard and Obie Bohon of St. George, Tucker County,  West Virginia [the two boys are not identified].  Courtesy Ruth M. Barrho"Recent investigation has shown that the original glass plate negative for this image is located in the Palmquist Collection, HSU Library, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California.  For more information refer to the article West Virginia's Big Trees: Setting the Record Straight by Van Gundy and Rob Whetsell in the Journal of Forestry 114(5):582–583 http://dx.doi.org/10.5849/jof.15-104.

65. Two Men and Two Children Posed in an Undercut, Humboldt County, California

This photograph was published in "Tumult on the Mountain" by Roy Clarkson. The caption with the image includes: "...typical of the small portable circular steam mills in operation in West Virginia ...;  Courtesy John Hayes"

66. De'cab Kennison's Sawmill, Pocahontas County, W. Va.

This photograph was published in the book, "Tumult On The Mountain" by Roy B. Clarkson, as Fig. 19. The caption with image includes: "Piling panel poplar in then yard for air drying. The various layers of the pile are separated by 1 X 4 inch stickers placed across the pile.Courtesy WVU LIbraries, A&M 1630, Brown, D. D. Collection"

67. Piling Panel Poplar For Drying, Birch Valley Lumber Company, Tioga, W. Va.

Although this image was published in "Tumult on the Mountain" by Roy Clarkson as Fig. 11 as being located in Lead Mine, West Virginia, recent investigation has revealed that this image was originally taken in California.  The original glass plate negative is located in the Palmquist and Ericson Collections at HSU Library, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California.The caption on the original and in Clarkson's book included, "White oak ... the log on the left is marked '13 ft. diameter, 16 ft from the base, John Vance ...', the log [to the right] is marked '10 ft diameter, 31 ft from the base.'See the article West Virginia’s Big Trees: Setting the Record Straight by Van Gundy and Whetsell in the Journal of Forestry 114(5):582–583http://dx.doi.org/10.5849/jof.15-104.

68. Workers Posing on top of Two Sections of Redwood Logs in the Forest, Humboldt County, California

69. Men Sorting Lumber on Mill at Dobbin, W. Va.

70. View of Stacked Logs

71. Loggers Loading Lumber on Cars, Dobbin, W. Va.

72. View of P.P. & L. Company's Mill, Dobbin, W. Va.

73. Mill Dam at Dobbin, W. Va.

74. Reforesting Young Spruce on Cut-Over Land in the Monongahela Forest Area, W. Va.

75. View of a Large Tree

76. View of Balanced Rock Near Elkins, W. Va.

'M. M & D. D. Brown logging equipment brought into Elkins, W. Va., yard near sawmill for storage and reshipment to Spring Creek, W. Va.'.

77. Logging Equipment

'M. M & D. D. Brown logging equipment brought into Elkins, W. Va., yard near sawmill for storage and reshipment to Spring Creek, W. Va.'.

78. Train Carrying Logging Equipment, Elkins, W. Va.

'M. M & D. D. Brown logging equipment brought into Elkins, W. Va., yard near sawmill for storage and reshipment to Spring Creek, W. Va.'.

79. Logging Equipment

'M. M. & D. D. Brown logging equipment brought into Elkins yard near sawmill for storage and reshipment to Spring Creek, W. Va.'.

80. Logging Equipment

'M. M. & D. D. Brown logging equipment brought into Elkins yard near sawmill for storage and reshipment to Spring Creek, W. Va.'.

81. Train Carrying Logging Equipment, Elkins, W. Va.

'M. M. & D. D. Brown logging equipment brought into Elkins yard near sawmill for storage and reshipment to Spring Creek, W. Va.'.

82. Logging Equipment

'M. M. & D. D. Brown logging equipment brought into Elkins yard near sawmill for storage and reshipment to Spring Creek, W. Va.'.

83. Logging Equipment

Model of the first band mill in Museum of Science and Industry Chicago, Illinois, D. D. Brown Property.

84. Model of the First Band Mill, Chicago, Illinois

'Last mill of the Hoffman Lumber Company in Columbia, South Carolina, which was a  modern electrically driven mill 7' Right Hand Sinker & Davis Hooiser Band Mill on which they ran 11" x 14 Guage saw. This mill with timber was sold as of May 11 1945 to the Vestal Lumber & Mfg. Co., of Knoxville, Tennessee. The Hoffman Brothers of course were the inventors of the first successful band mill with main offices at Ft. Wayne, Indiana'.

85. Last Mill of the Hoffman Lumber Company, Columbia, South Carolina

'Wood's operation Tygarts River Lumber Company, Mill Creek, W. Va., showing logging on Mill Creek. Cards furnished by Robert G. Kay, West Chester, Pennsylvania November 1951'.

86. Log Pond at Mill Creek, W. Va.

Wood's operation Tygarts River Lumber Company, Mill Creek, W. Va., showing logging on Mill Creek. Cards furnished by Robert G. Kay, West Chester, Pennsylvania November 1951.

87. Log Jam at Camp Number 1, Mill Creek, W. Va.

Mill Picture of the Tygarts River Lumber Company Mill at Mill Creek, W. Va., furnished by Robert G. Kay, West Chester, Pennsylvania November 1951.

88. Log Train at Tygarts River Lumber Company at Mill Creek, W. Va.

Mill Picture of the Tygarts River Lumber Company Mill at Mill Creek, W. Va., furnished by Robert G. Kay, West Chester, Pennsylvania November 1951.

89. Log Train Delivering at Tygarts River Lumber Company 's Mill at Mill Creek, W. Va.

90. Planing Mill, Huttonsville, W. Va.

91. J. D. Moore and Saw Mill Crew at Lee Bell, W. Va.

'M. M. and D. D. Brown Loader at Clover Run'.

92. Log Loader , Tucker County, W. Va.

'Loader Log Cars'.

93. Log Loader and Rail Cars, Tucker County, W. Va.

'Climax manufacturing engine purchased new by Clover Run Lumber Company. Still in use 1938 by WA Mason as shifting engine in Elkins Yard, # 367= 30 tons'.

94. Climax Locomotive purchased new by Clover Run Lumber Company

95. M. M. and D. D. Brown Locomotive, Clover Run, W. Va.

96. M. M. and D. D. Brown Locomotive and Log Loader, Clover Run, W. Va.