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than the production of Dennis and Brassua, a fact i.,..jj.tj<,a, 

 which is due, not to greater thrift, but to tlie hirger ^"^ciences. 

 amount of timber which looser cutting has left on the land. 

 This is thought to be about twice what it was in the former 

 case. The fact points what was lately said about the allowance 

 one has to make for the man and his methods when told that 

 a piece of land has been cut clean. 



The next two townships to be explored are of ^^t't^J't^*^ '" 

 particular interest from a new point of view. These ™''^''"'*='- 

 are the Bradstreet town and No. I, R. XIII. They lie next 

 to one another, and are not specially unlike in topography 

 and other natural conditions. Both, on inquiry, will be called 

 cut-over towns. Yet note the difference in their condition as 

 shown I\y a brief account of travel upon them. 



The Bradstreet town so-called is the north half , , . , 



Land cut by 



of A R. XII, and the south two miles of I in the 'ts owners. 

 same range. It is owned by the Bradstreets of Gardiner, 

 and was cut by them for saw logs for the supply of their own 

 mill. After some desultory cutting by previous owners it is 

 said to have furnished to them a cut of six millions a 3'ear for 

 ten years. Uneven in surface, even rough in the southern 

 portion, there is a considerable variety of land on the tract. 

 It is, however, finely situated for lumbering. The Roach 

 river and ponds lie across the middle of the tract its longest 

 'Wiiy, and all except perhaps a couple of square miles of its 

 area comes easily to some part of this water with a haul of at 

 most three miles. But the main point for the present is that 

 the township was cut by the owners, with their own crews, 

 for their own mills. 



The effect of this was seen at once in the close, systematic 

 w^ork done. The first jaunt on the town took me south from 

 the farm on the second Roach pond onto the mountains which 

 lie south of the second and east of the first Roach pond. 'Hie 

 mixed growth on these mountain slopes had been well cleaned 

 of spruce. Scattering logs only were to be seen, these being 

 mostly in some deep brook gully or on precij)itous slopes 

 where teams could hardly get them. Climbing onto the 



