4 FOREST COMMISSIONER S REPORT. 



Additional spruce consumptiou ou the drainage of the Kennebec is 

 about as follows: At Benton is a pulp mill using poplar and spruce 

 ^lainlJ^ 2,000 to 2,500 cords of spruce are generally used, obtained from 

 the Sebasticook river. At Eeddiugton is a mill that has witliiu the last 

 few years nearly cleaned the spruce off the township tributarj' to it. At 

 Lowelltowu are three saw mills, shipping their product by the Canadian 

 Pacific Kailway. Several small mills shipping by rail are located on the 

 Sandy river. All these items together, as near as I can learn, amount to 

 nearly thirty millions. 



The consumiJtion of small mills ou the Kennebec for local use has not 

 been ascertained. The aggregate of these items would be a considerable 

 amount, no doubt. A great percentage of it, however, would probablj- be 

 other wood than spruce. Pulp wood is frequently shipped from the 

 Sandy river to the mills ou the Androscoggin. 



Record of Soft Wood Lumber Cut and Driven on the Kennebec Since 1852. 

 From the books of the Kennebec Log Driving Company. 



1853 . . 



1854 . . 



1855 . 



1856 . . 



1857 . . 



1858 . . 



1859 . 

 1S60 . . 



1861 . 



1862 . . 



1863 . . 

 1S64 . 



1865 . . 



1866 . . 



1867 . • 



1868 . 



1869 . . 



1870 .. 



1871 . . 



1872 . . 



1873 . . 



1874 . 



64,086,000 

 68,533,000 

 64,131,000 

 38,903,000 

 55,498,000 

 22,646,000 

 39,332,000 

 44,196,000 

 46,134,000 

 41,112,000 

 43,331,000 

 40,212,000 

 42,864,000 

 47,035,000 

 75,636,000 

 52,045,000 

 91,436,000 

 80,882,000 

 81,702,000 

 119,518,000 

 128,695,000 

 97,427,000 



1875 



1876 



1877 



1878 



1879 



1880 



1881 . .- . 

 1882 



1883 .... 



1884 . . . . 



1885 



1886 



1887 



1888 



1889 



1890 



1891 



1892 



1893 



1894 



1895 



Total 



105,479,000 

 113,647,000 

 50,698,000 

 93,500,000 

 82,667,000 

 77,045,000 

 144,380,000 

 127,332,000 

 124,247,000 

 106,187,000 

 105,703,000 

 103,490,000 

 160,797,000 

 132,764,000 

 144,586,000 

 159,441,000 

 148,855,000 

 144,755,000 

 171,428,000 

 105,699,000 

 104,360,000 



3,892,414,000 



