HARDWOOD RECORD 



General View Satamill. Lumber Yard, Flooring Factory t 



ling to the Straitss of Jlarkiiuu-. A large part 

 of this region is covered with forests show- 

 ing an average of about forty per cent hard 

 maple. Originally interspersed in this growth 

 were white pine, Norway, hemlock and cedar, 

 which have been very largely felled and eon- 

 verted into lumber. 



One unfaniiliar with the hardwood forests 

 of the North can gain very little idea of the 

 splendid proportions and tall straight trunk 

 of the maple from Ms knowledge of it in 

 village or field. In the forests of Michi- 

 gan near Cadillac the tree attains its high- 

 est perfection — in ((uality of timber, size and 



syuinietry — often reaching a diameter of 

 three feet and rising sixty feet to the first 

 limb. Mingled with maple growth are gray 

 and rock elm. black ash, basswood and birch. 

 The distinctive feature of the woods land- 

 scape, however, and the real king of the for- 

 est, is tlie liiird iiiaiile. In tlie Udrtheni 



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