The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-08-01
WHERE RICHES ABOUND.
A Vast Area of Valuable Timber Land in
West Virginia.

A vast Area or valuable Timber Land in
West Virginia.
Vice President Lord, of the Balti-
more d Ohio Railroad, has returned
from West Virginia, where he had
been making tour over the West
Virginia d Pittsburg Railroad with
Senator J. n. Camden, Charles E.
Ways, General Freight Agent of the
Baltimore IL Ohio, Mr. Fickenger,
Chief Engineer of the West Virginia
improvement Company, which is
building part of the line; Major N.
5. Hill and Col. Curtin, of Pardee d.
Curtin. The object of their trip was
to examine the country and its re-
sources. They were astonished at
the primitive country they travelled
through and tell some remarkable
stories of the great forests and huge
trees they saw, which will require
more than one hundred years to be
cleared up, and the timber placed in
the market. They first went to New
Ion, on the west fork of the new plant
of the Alexander Lumber Company,
represented an investment of $500, 900
which is about finished, and will be
in operation in about thirty days.
Back of this plant is $4,000 acres of
the best quality poplar, oak, ash and
cherry timber. The company has
its booms and dams ready, and will
use the river and tram roads to haul
the timber to the mills.
The railroad is being extended
south from Newton to Plckings,
which is to be the terminus of that
division of the railroad, and it will
open up 100000 acres of the best
timber to be found east of the Miss
issippi river, consisting of poplar,
spruce, white and quarter oak. The
railroad has been broad gagged from
Weston to Buckhannon. The road
from Weston to Sutton, forty five
miles, has been turned over to the
railroad company. The line is now
Ito miles from Clarksburg.
The Pardee d Curtin Lumber Com
pany has an investments Of $4,000,
and gets its logs from the Elk river
and its tributaries. The travellers
left Sutton on horse back aud in car.
riages on Sunday, July 5, and made
their way to the Gauley river, dis
lance of thirty five miles more to the
mouth Of the Cherry and Cranberry
rivers, which empty into the Gauley.
On Wednesday they drove thirty
miles to the Williams river, and there
went into the wilderness, where for
miles the sun never penetrates, and
they travelled along the stream ten
miles
The timber land owned by the
West Virginia d Pittsburg Railroad
Company lies along the Cherry river,
and from its headwaters to the eau
ley, along the Cranberry from its
headwaters to the Gauley, along the
Williams river to the Gauley, and ON
the Gauley for twenty five miles
northeast from the mouth of the
Williams. This covers a territory
thirty five miles long from north to
south and thirty miles long from east
to west, and it contains 1900 acres
of timber land in Webster, Nicholas,
Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties.
Almost all that part of the State is a
dense virgin forest, and the huge
valuable building and furniture tim
Der trees are so close together that
man may stand between two and give
blow of an axe to one on his right
and then to another on his left with
out moving. The timber which pre-
dominates is spruce and cherry on
the top of the mountain, and poplar,
oak and ash on the sides. The par
ty went into this forest on Sunday,
July 9Th, and came out of it on Sat
urday, the 11th, and covered dis
lance of It's miles, The railroad ex-
tension, now being built from Sutton
to the Gauley, will open up 100000
acres of fine timber lands for that
division of the railroad.