FOREST commissioner's REPORT. Ill 



rence, however, I have not yet discovered either a ))anillel or 

 a cause. 



About Lincohi pond in the northeast part of the ^vhere good 

 town is a consideral)le body of virgin timber. This io»'^spay. 

 of course cannot be hauled to the river at its nearest point, 

 but must go down the brook through which the pond dis- 

 charges. This was a four mile haul and as a good many mil- 

 lions of timber had to go that route, a good road was the first 

 thino^in order. This we crossed on our easterlv course, find- 

 ing it the best ever seen by us in the country, cut out wide 

 and carefully graded before freezing. Probably when the 

 haulino; is ffood, five thousand feet of lumber will go down 

 it at a load. 



Passing the road and the brook nearby, old works were 

 again found in growth like that first entered, but more recently 

 cut. Turning south, count for half a mile gave West twelve 

 merchantalile spruce trees to the acre, footing up about 1,000 

 feet. My count yielded twice the number with a total stand 

 of 400 cubic feet. This timber, readers will understand, 

 has not grown since the cut. A spruce tree six years old 

 could hardly be much over a foot high. The trees classed as 

 merchantable in the count were mostly between eight and 

 eleven inches in diameter four feet from the o-round which 

 when the cut was made ma}'' have been an inch smaller. They 

 were trees which partly from their small size and partly from 

 their scattered position were skipped in the cut. The original 

 stand from which they were left probably stood five or six thous- 

 and per acre of spruce, or an equivalent of 2,000 cubic 

 feet. 



After travelling south for a mile or more, a turn ^ftr/Jut^*^ 

 to the west was made. This course finally brought ^'"^' 

 us to the river, up which the drivers' path carried us to camp. 

 On the way a sample of the alluvial land was seen, while a 

 little burnt area was passed, and its extent approximately as- 

 certained. When we got in we compared notes finally on 

 what we had seen relative to young growth coming up in the 

 cuttings. On half the land seen we agreed that young fir 



