150 FOREST COMMISSIONER S REPORT. 



This estimate is based largely upon personal examination 

 and entirely upon personal knowledge of the territory and 

 the character of the growth and after consulting notes and 

 memoranda extending over a period of more than twenty 

 years. Very truly, 



J. A. PIKE. 



Asked to be more explicit as to the standard of cutting, on 

 which his estimates were based, Mr. Pike refers to the cut- 

 ting on Grafton and Success, the closest in the country, 

 described in the first portion of this Androscoggin report. 



AREA OF ANDROSCOGGIN SPRUCE LANDS IN MAINE. 



Square miles. 



Gross area naturally spruce bearing* 1,240 



Waste, burnt within thirty years 21 



burnt more than thirty years ago includ- 



ino; old second growth in settled towns. 234 



settled (on very poor data) 65 



water areas 75 



unproductive mountain land, etc., say. . . 15 410 



Net area spruce-producing land 830 



Area never cut for spruce, about 420 



* Including on the south Batchekler's Grant, Gilead, Xewry, Andover, Boxbury, 

 Weld. 



