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Mill with six smoke stacks visible.

145. Lumber Mill

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

146. Log Dump

147. Loggers Using Crosscut Log Saw

148. Overturned Log Car on 36 Inch Railroad at E. M. Bonner and Associates, Ranwood Lumber Company, Pickens, W. Va.

149. View of Logging Operation

150. Babcock Lumber Company, Davis, W. Va.

151. Logging Scene at Cass, Pocahontas County, W. Va.

Postcard photograph includes three teams of horses pulling felled trees and a small child (unidentified) mounted on one team horse.

152. 'Wood Scene, R. Chaffey', Hauling Felled Trees, Tucker County, W. Va.

153. Deforested Area in Black Water Canyon, W. Va.

(From postcard collection legacy system--subject.)

154. Loggers Stand Atop Felled Logs, Probably Dobbins, W. Va.

A man, who is likely a member of the Shumate family, poses on top of a log that is ready to be hauled off by two horses.

155. Men Logging in Summers County, W. Va.

Logging camp, likely near Mullens, W. Va.

156. Logging Camp

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

157. Log Train at Crow, 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.'

158. Farmer and Sons Chopping Wood

Likely Centralia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

163. Deer Creek Mill, West Virginia

164. Logging in Nicholas County, W. Va.

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"

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

166. View of Stacked Logs

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

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

169. Mill Dam at Dobbin, W. Va.

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

171. View of a Large Tree

172. 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.'.

173. 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.'.

174. 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.'.

175. Logging Equipment

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

176. Logging Equipment

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

177. 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.'.

178. Logging Equipment

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

179. Logging Equipment

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

180. 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'.

181. 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'.

182. 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.

183. 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.

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

185. Planing Mill, Huttonsville, W. Va.

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

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

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

'Loader Log Cars'.

188. 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'.

189. Climax Locomotive purchased new by Clover Run Lumber Company

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

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

' # 1875, Cloverlick engine used an Vindex Maryland by Raine Lumber Company, sold to M. M. & D. D. Brown in 1927.'

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