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A transcript of my count and estimate for a cut land on 

 specimen half mile may not be without interest in si'uiicE' 



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this connection. Straight across country the course per quakte 



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■was taken, throuirh brush heaps or whatever else 

 miirht be in the way. As the irround was covered 

 close watch was kept to one side tor an estimated 

 width of 105 feet, and at the end of the same dis- 





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tance, or in fair travelling of forty-eight steps, the |-^| 

 results were noted in the shape of the number of 

 spruce trees over six inches in diameter, their 

 estimated contents in cubic feet, and the number 

 of trees of such a size that any lumberman would 

 call them saw logs. Of the latter, doubtless some 

 were hollow or unsound trees which were inten- 

 tionally left. A fair allowance for this, however, 

 leaves us still a very considerable aniount of saw 

 timber on the ground. Lookinu" carefully over the 

 notes of my four days' travel, during which about 

 seven miles of this careful count in different parts 

 of the township was made, 1 am compelled to 

 believe that not less than 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 

 feet of first-class logs arc so left standing. They 

 would not tigure in an ordinary estimate of the 

 country. They may be worlli but little in their 

 detached position. But they are there, and they have signifi- 

 cance at any rate in connection with the future of the land. 



The counts given above also indicate the amount of young 

 spruce on the ground. The average of the half mile given is 

 nf)t greatly different from that of the whole seven miles of 

 count — does not differ from it as much as it is likely to vary 

 from the actual fact. About thirty-three spruce trees per 

 acre over six inches in diameter is the average of the whole, 

 these trees containinir about 400 cubic feet. For the small 

 spruce, under six inches in diameter, an addition of perha[)S 

 iifty more cubic feet should be made. Not much ^vind in 

 sufferino; from wind was noted on the town, thouii'h t'>*«''^*-''""- 

 the remaining trees on nmch of it were very much exposed. 



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