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On account of the little fall in Nett river in its upper course and its 

 numerous meanders, the stream is blocked l)y thirteen log jams in as many 

 miles. 



Xett lake and river have 17,000.000 feet of pine tributary to it and as 

 many million feet of hardwood, not to say anything about the cords of pulp 

 wood. It is proposed to dam Nett river at the upper falls, the dam to be 

 four feet In height. The river at present is forty to sixty feet wide and 

 very shallow most of the year. esiK'cially at the intake from the lake. This 

 would raise it so that logs could he driven down it. The numerous mean- 

 ders of the stream are also proposed to be cut through, thus shortening the 

 stream and increasing its flow-current. This improving the river should 

 not exceed $6,000. 



A mention of the falls has been made. The three falls each aggregate ap- 

 proximately fifteen feet respectively. These could be utilized for generating 

 water power and I judge that each is capable of producing 10,000 horse- 

 power. These, no doubt, will be used in the installing of mills and electric 

 plants, when the region becomes settled. 



Below the falls in Nett river the stream has incised its channel till near 

 its confluence with the Little Fork, its banks are fifty feet high. And as a 

 consequence, its tributary side streams make the region have quite a bluffy 

 appearance. Throughout its entire coui'se its channel is incised in glacial 

 material except at the falls and the few rapids. Its banks below the falls 

 are mostly In clays of the Lake Agasiz series. 



Little Fork river has a considerable fall, but is also a much meanlcri'd 

 stream. At one place a meander is between 7 and 9 miles jnduinl while a 

 trail across its neck is less than forty rods. The stream i< ni'.-iily KU) feet 

 wide and rather deep. It has numerous rapids but no falls. l[< rai>i(ls are 

 in places where the stream cuts across the upturned edge=? of fault ))locks 

 of Huronian and Archaeon rocks. The rapids were once falls, but have been 

 worn down to rapids by the rapid current and ice action. The more rapid 

 current accounts for the falls of this stream being worn down to rapids 

 while those of Nett river are still falls. The country adjacent to the stream 

 (Little Fork river) is not swampy from Celler's landing to Little Fork post 

 office. Northward from there, however, it crosses the "Great Muskeg." The 

 Little Fork country is settled near the river, as is Iqwer Nett river. The 

 valley of this stream, for the most part, is incised in clays of glacial age. 

 mostly of the Lake Agasiz stage, though the meandering stream itself is 

 cut in deposits laid down by itself on its own valley floor. 



The timber of the region amounts to many hundred millions of feet B. M. 

 The industry of the region today is in the main lumbering. We passed 

 1,000,000 feet of logs in the river on our trip, all being driven northward to 

 Rainy Kiver and International Falls to be sawed into lumber or made 

 into paper. The timber adjacent to the river is mostly hard wood and 

 cedar. Three acres of cedar poles at the mouth of Nett river netted $1,400 

 as it stood in the woods. A homesteader or a buyer of land along either of 

 these streams will usually have timber enough on the land to pay for clear- 



