86 



FOREST COMMISSIONER S REPORT. 



a 



S . 

 to ^ 



Moose river 



Roach river and lake — 



Dead river 



Main river below lake 

 Sandy and Carrabasset 

 Total 



.8S 

 .85 

 .57 

 .76 

 .45 



.70 



These figures are worthy of careful study, the figures par- 

 ticularly for the different sections of the country, to those 

 whose interests attach to them. Detail figures for each town- 

 ship are behind these summary ones. For various reasons it 

 is not intended to give these publication in this report. That, 

 indeed, could best be done in map form. 

 Areabani jj^ addition to the facts here tabulated there are 



wood and 



biowdown. others which aftect the problem of growth materi- 

 ally. Among these may be mentioned the area of blown^down 

 timber, which is ver}'^ considerable, and the proportion of the 

 country which is pure or nearly pure hard wood. In'regard 

 to these matters no tabulation will be attempted. For areas 

 which were explored the facts are approximately known, and 

 they have been allowed for. For other regions the re- 

 sults of inquiry have to be taken, supplemented with what 

 could be learned through occasional views from mountain 

 tops. For all facts of this nature relating to the question of 

 spruce supply — the proportion of hard wood land, thejmixture of 

 young spruce in the cut-over lands, the proportion of black 

 growth and its degree of thrift — constant watch has been kept 

 thousfhout the season. Of the several districts into which the 

 Kennebec drainage is divided, the territory tributary to the 

 river below Moosehead is the only one of which not enough 

 was seen to form a pretty good general notion at first hands 

 of its character. This whole matter, however, must be 



