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Some of this may be so far off, or so badl}- situated, that it might 

 be better to lose the inferior portions of it, rather than incur the 

 expense of getting it to market. If, allowing for this, ihe available 

 saving by this method on the whole quantity of the annual cut of 

 pine and spruce be taken at 30 per cent for the pine, and 15 per 

 cent for the spruce, the average annual saving on these two kinds of 

 lumber cut for the Bangor trade aloyie would be : 



On the pine, 30 per cent of 29.000 M 8,700 M. 



On the spruce, 15 per cent of 109,000 M 16,350 M. 



On both . 25,050 M. 



By reason of the inferior quality of a portion of this, taken from 

 the tops, calling the average stumpage price of the pine saved, S2 

 per M, and that of the spruce, $1 per M, gives as the gain in 

 stumpage : 



On 8,700 M of pine at §2.00 ...$17,400 00 



On 16,350 " spruce at 1.00 16.350 00 



25,050 both 833,750 00 



or on the cut of pine and spruce for the Bangor market, a saving 

 each year in stumpage merely of enough to buy a township of land. 



If the yearly saving that could be effected by this method of cut- 

 ting, for all woods and for the whole State, could be ascertained, it 

 would probably be found to add $250,000 or more to the stumpage, 

 or enough to pay for two townships of the best timber land in ihe 

 State, even at the prices fixed by the Valuation Commission. 



But this is not all, for it is evident that bj- getting, say, twenty- 

 five per cent more lumber from the trees cut, in order to procure 

 the same amount of lumber as would have been obtained in the ordi- 

 nary way, it will be necessary to cut only four-fifths as many trees 

 of the same size or, in the same density of growth, to cut over only 

 four-fifths as much land. This is a material decrease in the rate of 

 deforesting the State, while it also affords a hint to the lumberman 

 of a saving to him in the amount of swamping to be done, which he 

 can reckon as an offset, more or less complete, to any additional 

 cost, if any there be, that might otherwise be incurred in the sawing 

 of the trees, or the working of the tops. This saving of swamping 

 also effects a still further saving of the forest by avoiding the cutting 

 ,f so many trees now useless for lumber. 



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