By Rickey Robertson
As we travel around through Natchitoches, Sabine, and Vernon Parishes it is hard to believe the lands in these parishes once were covered with large stands of virgin southern pine timber. The lands of west central Louisiana had some of the finest of this vast timberland. But up until the very early 1900s there was one major reason this timber had not been harvested. The problem was a lack of rail transportation to ship and haul both the raw and finished timber products.
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