The Seven Valleys Lumber Company owns the timber rights to vast streches of the slopes of Winechataka Peak. It is the main reason that the Apple Bottom & Hemlock Acres Rail Road is still in existence. Esentialy the lumber company is too prosperous and the AB&HA is a tax dodge. The main trackage between the mill at Apple Bottom and the cutting sites past Hemlock Acres is owned by the AB&HA. Since it is not particularly successful it gets tax breaks from the politicians who are in the pocket of the tycoons on the lumber company's board of directors. "Fellow legislators, we need to keep the life line to these communities open, not tax it out of existance." The pork flows freely and everybody looks the other way, for a small consideration of course.