42 FOREST commissioner's report. 



The last observation I will record about this country is the 

 notes of a half acre which had enouo-h trees on it so that it had 

 escaped damaoe hy winds. It is in shape to be compared 

 with the sample half acre on page 35. 



Very little had been cut from this ground — three or four 

 pines and a very few of the largest spruce. It was in fact 

 rather an openly covered piece of ground with short trees, 

 than thick growth like the other thinned out. However, it is 

 worth something in the connection. \ 



MOOSE RIVER BASIN. 



Kennebec '^'^^ ^^^^^ ^'^^ ^^^'^^ ^ kuow of toacquirc, iudoors, I 



topography ^^^ jj^.^ ^f ^j^^ topography of the State is through ; 



the study of Wells' "AVater Power of Maine" in connection ] 

 with the best maps. Take for instance the Kennebec drain- j 

 age. The colored map of the State in the book named I 

 shows the area drained by the river, and its relations to other 

 river systems. The text gives the height of certain points j 

 upon it ; while the maps (of which Hubbard's, and Stuart's j 

 timberland plan number six are for the upper country most 

 accurate and availal)le) give the location of some of the j 

 watersheds and mountains. j 



Most of the larger tributaries of the Kennebec lun into it ' 

 from the west. The larger tributaries on that side are in ^ 

 their regular order up stream, the Sandy river, the Carra- 

 basset, the Dead and the Moose rivers. Of these the Dead : 

 Eiver drainage is first in size (832 square miles — Wells) 

 and Moose river second (()oO). The basins of the Sandy 

 Eiver and Carrabasset, while together nearly equal in area 

 Tributaries ^^ ^^^'^^ ^*^ ^^^^ Dead river, are in great part less 

 tnctf^ '^^^' than 500 feet above sea lev^el, and so smooth and 

 fertile moreover, that they are largely covered by deciduous , 

 trees. Only about a third of the territory drained by these \ 

 two rivers, the hioher and rouijher lands about their head 

 Avaters, has to be taken into practical account in connection 

 with the spruce supply. East of the main river only the : 



