. La foresterie et les industries du bois . de manière générale, quelques années presque-complètement la population qui a gagné à l'origine sa vie depuis le sol a été poussé hors des lieux de l'isolement intoa tourbillon de l'industrie moderne. Lorsque les chemins de fer et les Scieries sont arrivés, ils ont apporté avec eux une classe différente de personnes dont les manières et la langue étaient facilement adoptées par les jeunes. Des milliers de jeunes hommes ont été induits dans des mines en-ter, des usines et des camps d'exploitation forestière où ils étaient trenfinto en association intime avec un élement étranger, difficile et dérivant. C'est une plainte fréquente et juste des agriculteurs en ounwn

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. Forestry and wood industries . aratively few years near-ly the whole population which originally earned its living fromthe ground has been pushed out from places of seclusion intoa whirl of modern industry. When the railroads and the sawmills came in they brought with them a different class of peoplewhose manners and language were readily adopted by theyounger people. Thousands of young men were induced to en-ter mines, factories and logging camps where they were throwninto intimate association with a rough, drifting, foreign ele-ment. It is a frequent and just complaint of farmers in ourown state that their sons have left the farms at a time whenthey were most needed and have taken up other lines of workin lumbering and mining sections and in the towns; that theneglected farms have grown up in briers; that the young menhave become wholly dissatisfied with the work in which theyonce took an interest; and that a spirit of selfishness and cool-headed business has taken the place of the hospitality that onceprevailed.. WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 45 The industries mentioned have frequently reduced regionswhich abounded in beautiful forest scenery into unattractiveand ugly wastes of land. This has had an effect, and will con-tinue to have an effect, upon the character of the inhabitants.A certain amount of development of natural resources of anycountry or any state must be expected and should be desired;but unrestricted industries should not be permitted to disfigureand ruin the appearance of the regions of their operations be-yond all hope of repair. J. H. McFarland, President of theAmerican Civic Association^ declares that The true glory ofthe United States must rest and has rested upon a deeper found-ation than that of her purely material resources. It is the love ofcountry that lights and keeps glowing the holy fire of patriot-ism. And this love is excited, primarily, by the beauty of thecountry. The devastated, fire-blighted regions of our statewhich have be

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