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portion. By this it is not meant that there is no spruce south 

 of the line of division drawn. Spruce goes clear to the south- 

 western corner of the State. The question is one of practi- 

 cal timber suppl}" for the Kennebec mills, and with that in 

 view our dividing line is approximately correctly drawn. 

 Whatever may be derived from territory below it is not great 

 in amount. Most of it prol)ably is wanted for local con- 

 sumption. It can be estimated by those familiar and con- 

 cerned with the country in question as supplementary to the 

 area dealt with here. 



The northern spruce-producing portion of the sub-.uvi- 

 Kennebec has, exclusive of Moosehead lake, an '^^°"- 

 area of 2,820 square miles. This area has, for the purposes 

 of this study, been divided into five districts, the names and 

 area of which follow : 



Sq. miles. 



1. Drainage of the Moose river 655 



2. Drainage of Roach river and Moosehead lake . . 430 

 S. Drainage of Dead river 820 



4, Tributary to Kennebec river below Moosehead 



as far south as Moscow and Mayfield 580 



5. Part of drainage of Sandy river and Carra- 



basset * 335 



2,820 

 In the further development of the subject the next oeductiona 

 step is the deduction of those areas which, so far as ^° ^'^ "''''"• 

 the spruce supply is concerned, are waste land. For the 

 present purpose the following table gives us the essential facts. 

 Anions the items of waste land, water and bog areas are classed 

 too-ether, old burnt lands and settled land as well. Most of the 

 newer burnt lands were burnt within the last fifteen years. In 

 this connection especial attention is called to the amount of 

 burnt land on the Dead river. The waste from mountain top 

 is a pretty unreliable figure. 



* Northern and more mountainous portion including on the south Lexington, 

 Kingfleld, Mount Abraham, Madrid, Letter E and No. G. 



