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Excerpt from The Geology and Coal Resources of Buchanan County, Virginia The region is inhabited chiefly by the descendants of those who came into the mountains manv vears ago. The population in 1910 was all white, as negroes have not been encouraged to remain. About the only occupations of the people are farming and lumbering. Corn, raised in small cleared patches on remarkably steep slopes, a little garden truck, and hogs that are allowed to run wild during most of the year, are the chief, and almost the only, farm products. Except for clearings whose aggregate area is comparatively small, the whole region is coxered with dense forests filled with undergrowth. These forests have been a very important source of revenue and still contain many large and valuable trees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.