The first of next month the last log will be sawed at the mammoth mill of the Norwich Lumber Co. at Norwich, completing the operations of that company on the tract of approximately 35,000 acres, starting at the head of Potato Creek, about 12 miles from Smethport.

The mill, one of the largest in this section of the United States, will be moved to Clarion county, where the Norwich company is beginning operations on a large timber tract and will build a new lumber town.  It is expected that the main part of the population of Norwich will move to the new scene of activity.

Betula and Keystone, two other thriving villages near Norwich, which sprang up with the timber operations, will continue to thrive for a time yet as the stave factor in the former town and the chemical plan in the  latter place have considerable work ahead.

The site of Norwich was first cleared from the then virgin forest in that section in the fall of 1909 and the town sprang up as if by magic in 1910, followed closely by the towns of Betula and Keystone, all three villages within a radius of 4 miles.

As recorded in the Democrat recently the Sate of Pennsylvania has purchased the lands  over which the lumbering operations have been in progress during the past ten years and will in all probability create a big State preserve, upon which extensive reforestation will be conducted and game will be encouraged to multiply.