Summary
The resource development of West Virginia has come in waves. The early oil and gas drilling came in the 40 years around 1900. Anyone who has seen the 1912 geologic map of I.C. White covering Harrison and Doddridge counties must be impressed with all the red dots signifying wells.
After that it petered out as oil and gas came in further West. Timber cutting in the Eastern Mountains produced impressive wealth for a few decades, including the great houses that now belong to Davis & Elkins College. Coal stripping in the North Central part of the state began shortly after World War II and burned itself out by 1990, and a similar wave in Southern West Virginia now appears to be ending, more for political reasons than economic.See the full content of this document
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What Will Remain After Marcellus?
The only long-lasting resource extraction is deep mining, now in progress for more than a century, but showing serious prob...
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