FOREST commissioner's REPORT. 57 



The next township to be looked over— and it was ^.fVjn'i'slm! 

 more thorouirhl y covered than any previous — was towiVJiVi'p. °* 

 Brassua. This town was pitched on because it was considered 

 to have been very thorouahly cut. ]Mr. Edward Cullens of 

 Greenville has cut half the township for its owners. He was 

 met at Greenville, and opportunity taken to learn about the 

 territory. About 1,000 acres on the town owned by an heir- 

 ship has not l)eeii cut on for twenty-five years and noAv has 

 considerable tinil)er. The remainder has been cut over, 

 mostly within the last ten years. Only saw timber has been 

 hauled, but ^Nlr. Cullens said his standard had been six inches 

 at twenty feet. He said, too, that he had done the work 

 thoroughly. The bunches of timber that he knew of on his 

 part of the town were few in nund)er and none of them of 

 any great amount. It was therefore an interesting study to 

 find out just what shape this town was in. What was it in 

 the way of producing? This township is in the shape that its 

 neia-hl)ors will soon be in. What is the future of such land 

 to be? 



During the five days spent on Brassua I was the guest of 

 jMr. Cullens in his haying crew. On August tenth, I struck 

 out from the camp on Brassua stream for my first day's 

 exploration. Going up stream far enough to get oft' the 

 timbered lots I mounted the ledge of slate rock that bounds 

 the stream valley, and struck south by the compass through 

 the old works. It was a very ragged country that I got into. 

 There had been a heavy stand of timber on the ground (Bras- 

 sua is a town that in its day has yielded a hundred millions) 

 and the cut conseijuently had made a vast change in the looks 

 of the land. l>ig gaps had almost no trees standing except 

 the small stuff" grown up since the cut. Of what was standing, 

 crooked and deformed hard woods, or, in regions where the 

 spruce timl)er had been thinner, a respectable hard wood 

 growth, was the most to be seen. 



Spruce of course was not absent — indeed, I think if what is 

 actually there could be piled u]) before Mr. Cullens or any 



