In a story titled “Alarm Among Property Owners,” dated Thursday, November 3, 1910, the Lincoln Republican of Hamlin, West Virginia, offered this story:

The property owners along Little Harts Creek in Lincoln county, are greatly exercised over the action of some one who has sent a surveying party into their midst, and they fear that the move is for the purpose of objecting them from their possessions. The surveyors who are from this city do not know or refuse to tell who the work is being done for, and for a time the residents were incensed at them for making the survey and they only secured lodging place with difficulty, but the people are now waiting to see what is coming. The land is owned mostly by Mr. Brammer, a timber man of near Rockwood, Ohio, Aaron Adkins, and fifteen others and they are preparing to make a fight for their rights as soon as the unknown parties who have ordered the survey show their hand.

The story originally appeared in the Herald-Dispatch of Huntington, West Virginia, on Sunday, October 30.