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Small Shay engine pulling cars of loaded logs for Harter Brothers Lumber Company in Pocahontas County. Train is Pocahontas Central Railroad of W.Va. Probably on Laurel Run, Clover Lick Mountain

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Team of horses and three lumberjacks skidding logs on Cheat Mountain

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Group of people standing around a train engine belonging to the Hosterman Lumber Company. The boiler on the Climax engine exploded on July 26, 1906 coming across the top of Little Mountain near Cass, W.Va. The explosion occurred behind the Uriah…

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A group of workers at the Hosterman Mill on the Greenbrier River near Durbin. Hosterman was also called Hiner Town. Milton Gum is in the group.

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Lower row of house and church at original location in Warntown. Warn Lumber Company operation located at Stamping Creek near Mill Point, W.Va. Also shows lumber and raised railroad tracks.

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Inside of an unidentified portable saw mill in Pocahontas County, W.Va. Shows steam boiler and four men working.

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Large crowd of townspeople seen on both sides of the track in Marlinton, W.Va. Celebrating the arrival of the Greenbrier River Railroad Company's Construction Train.

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Large log drive probably on the Greenbrier River. A good number of men standing on the logs.

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Moonshine Still, Lincoln Cochran, U.S. Marshall, on right

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Log camp between Hosterman and Arbovale, W.Va. Shows entire crew with camp workers in front of large camp building, people sitting in upper windows and flag flying on porch.

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Large log drive on flooded creek, possibly Knapps Creek, near Huntersville. Shows large number of logs, men riding the logs on the water and teams of horses moving logs in the water. Covered bridge in the distance.

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Maryland Lumber Company Camp No. 12, log loader loading logs on train car. Six men standing by tracks. 4th from left, Reed Griffith. 5th from left, Charles McLaughlin. Also shows man standing on loaded logs.

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Log pond and pulp mill at Spruce, W.Va. Handwritten note and postmark on back.

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Three loggers from Camp 9 with horse team and logs beside railroad track in Northern Pocahontas County,W.Va. Man in black suit standing at back left in photo.

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Logging Camp No. 6 at Rocky Gulch in Horton, W.Va. Two larger log buildings and a number of small buildings on either side of a railroad track. Signs of active timbering with felled trees on hillsides.

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Logging crew at W.Va. Pulp & Paper Company's Camp No. 6 on Cheat Mountain. Show building and railroad track. Standing at far right is Carl McNeill. 5th from right is George Kellison. 14th from right is Homer Hevener. On the far left is George…

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Logging crew in northern Pocahontas County, W.Va. Number marker on photo: 1. Bland Nottingham, 2. Lewis Collins, 3. Charley Nottingham, 4. Cook, James Kirkpatrick

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Groups of nine loggers with their tools in the woods. View shows log with bark peeled and man with cross-cut saw over his shoulder.

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Harter Brothers Lumber Company mill, houses, stacks of lumber and railroad tracks, located at Harter 5 miles northeast of Marlinton, W.Va. Wide view
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