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FOREST commissioner's REPORT. 



deep moss cover. The spruce thiit stood on it has been cut 

 through, l)ut never cleanly and most of it some years ago, so 

 that considerable timber, mostly of the smaller sizes, still 

 remains. The average stand of spruce here was set at 800 

 cubic feet. Perhaps six square miles, more recently cut, is 

 broken land, well drained and of thrifty growth, while the 

 three required to make up the total area of eighteen square miles 

 is land in which hard w^ood predominated, which has been cut 

 through and wdiich now has on the average some HOO or 400 

 cubic feet of spruce per acre. This too is of course quick 

 growing land. 



Esthnated ^he Same facts and estimates are next put into 



growth!"'^ tabular form . * ^lliey may mean little to the reader, 



I. R. xrv, NoKTH OF Roach River and East of Spencer Bay and Pond. 

 Area, Condition, and Estimated Standing Spruce. 



Estimated Stand 

 in Cubic Feet. 



Per acre. 



Total. 



Hard wood land, etc— uncut 



Mixed land, cut out 



Second growth 



Timbered land, uncut 



Spruce land, flat, slow growth, cut 



Spruce land, uneven, quick growth, cut 



Total 



400 



400 



600 



1,500 



800 

 700 



512,000 

 512.000 

 1,1.52,000 

 2,880,000 

 1,024,000 

 2,088,000 



8,768,000 



but such facts are essential if we are to ascertain the amount 

 of growth on our country. In this connection it is not so 

 much the amount of merchantable timber standino- which tells 

 the story, as the amount of small timber and the thriftiness 

 of the land. The growth calculation will not in this case be 

 given in detail. I will only say that as near as I can judge 

 the yearly growth on the ten square miles of cut-over land, 

 made up of items two, five and six, is s(miewhere between 400 

 and 500 M. feet B. M. This is considerably more per acre 



* This computation is later upset by a Are which ran through the tract in the 

 spring of 1896. Territory covered and amount of damage not yet known to the 

 writer. 



