Author: George Byrne

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-05-27

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 9780282064549

Excerpt from 1915 Hand-Book of West Virginia: The State's Wonderful Development, Its Natural Resources and Industrial Advantages, Biographies of Prominent Citizens and Stories of Leading Business Institutions The soils of West Virginia are of two general classes - alluvial and sedentary. The alluvial soils have been formed in the valleys by the overflow Of the streams and the silt from the adjacent hills. They are highly fertile and with good cultivation produce abundant crops. The sedentary soils have been formed by the disintegration of the underlying rocks, and vary in character with the nature of the rocks themselves. They are composed of the various limestones, sandstones and Shales, and run from a moderate toa high degree Of fertility, but are all easily made productive by proper treatment. 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.