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((/. ) Kinds and amounts of timber in the valley of the Red Horse Chain that are rendered 

 inaccessible by the reservoir. 



JOHN McFARLAND, an expert lumberman, made a careful examination as to the merchantable 

 soft wood standing in the valley of the Red Horse Chain, and his testimony is that there are at least 

 170,000 market logs, or 34,000,000 feet of merchantable soft wood in the valley of the Red 

 Horse Chain, no part of which can be taken to the railroad. In addition to the merchantable sott 

 wood in the valley of the Red Horse Chain, the tract has considerable merchantable hard wood, such 

 as cherry, maple and birch, access to all of which has been completely destroyed by the reservoir. 



JULIUS BRECKWALDT, an expert lumberman in hard wood, testifies that he made a careful 

 examination of the merchantable hard wood in the valley of the Red Horse Chain and prepared a 

 careful table of quantities and percentages of the different kinds of woods upon the several tracts ; 

 and that the expense of drawing the hard wood in the valley of the Red Horse Chain to market over 

 the mountain ranges would be so great as not to be undertaken, and that the same could not be 

 drawn across the reservoir to the railroad on account of the unstable condition of the ice, and that the 

 value of this land, solely for the merchantable hard wood that is upon it, would be $2.09 an acre, 

 and as there are 11,759 acres, the value of the hard wood alone in the Red Horse Chain Valley, 

 destroyed by the reservoir, would amount to nearly $25,000. 



{e.) South Branch. 



Upon the South Branch side of the Beaver River, principally in the valley of the South Branch, 

 there are 3,337 acres, so situated on account of intervening mountain ranges, that tlic timber from 

 which can not be taken to market by rail. 



The situation of the land upon the south side of the Beaver River with reference to its feasibility 

 for lumbering by rail can be easily determined by an inspection of the topographical map of the lands, 

 and it will be seen that the relative location of the reservoir, railroad and mountain ranges are such 

 that a large quantity of timber can not be drawn to the railroad except by drawing the same over the 

 mountain ranges, which, as we have seen, are of such a height as to render it impracticable. 



The situation of the 3,337 acres south of the railroad are described by Mr. Wood in his minutes of 

 testimony ; see also testimony of John McFarland. 



As to a portion of the timber in the valley of the South Branch, namely, that above the railroad, 

 it was suggested by the learned Attorney-General that the same could be floated down to the railroad 

 and then taken out of the water and shipped to market. 



A careful examination was made of the situation by Hon. WESLEY BARNES, who testified that 

 he went for the purpose of ascertaining the situation of the railroad bridge on the South Branch ; that 

 he found the railroad bridge a bridge fifty feet long, about thirty feet high, high trestle works about 

 500 feet on each side of the bridge, and high embankments ; that if any logs were put into the stream 

 and run down to the crossing they would have to be taken out a considerable distance above the 

 bridge ; and that this taking the logs down, hauling them up and getting them on the cars, could be 

 done for about sixty-five cents a thousand feet extra. 



(/ ) T-Mitchell Creek. 



Twitchell Lake is situated in the north part of Township 8, John Brown's Tract, and empties into 

 Beaver River through Twitchell Creek. Twitchell Creek empties into the Beaver River just above 

 the dam at Stillwater. 



The Twitchell Creek, as we have seen, is a perfectly feasible stream to drive, with the river in its 

 original condition. Before any interference with it by the State, Twitchell Creek was a floatable 

 stream. Because of the river being blocked up in the way that it is, it is now absolutely impossible 

 to float logs. 



The question arises, how can claimant's land in the Twitchell Lake Valley be lumbered by rail ? 

 It was suggested by the learned Attorney-General that the logs from Township 8 could be floated 

 down to the railroad and there be taken out and shipped by rail : and in making this suggestion the 

 situation evidently was not understood, for : 



