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broujzht into the problem more in tlie way of judgment than 

 as statistics. 



Next in order comes the timber condition of the u,!"^*!^^"^ 

 territory. In regard to this, the first question that ^i'"'"^'- 

 meets us is the proportion of the total producing area which 

 remains uncut. The figures presented on this point are to be 

 somewhat qualified. Those who have followed the narrative 

 which precedes in this report will perhaps understand what is 

 meant when I say it is often doul)tful what should be reckoned 

 as cut and what as uncut land. Again, of that which may be 

 left uncut, it may be a question how much has a large enough 

 proportion of spruce upon it to be worth taking into account 

 in the connection. In this, as elsewhere, it has seemed well 

 to be conservative, and only uncut tracts of some considerable 

 extent have been counted into the list. From the area of 

 these, no deduction has been made for regions which, though 

 reckoned in the account as producing land, may have little or 

 no spruce upon them. 



Alongside the figures on the last-named point are put such 

 estimates as could be obtained of the amount of merchantable 

 timber now standing. These are in almost all ^V""V"^,?f 



~ nierciiaiita- 



cases lumbermen's figures. Such figures have a ^mblr! 



Virgin Forest and Merchantable Timber. 



o . 



Moose I'iver 



Roach river and lake .. 



Dead river 



Main river below lake 

 Sandy and Carrabasset 



380 

 250 

 *390 

 140 

 100 



1,260 



♦Includes a considerable amount which the business developments of 1896 turn 

 over to mills on the Androscoggin. 



