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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 by thirteen log jams in as many 
miles. 
Nett 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, especially at the intake from the lake. This 
would raise it so that logs could be 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 utilize] 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 course 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 meandered 
stream. At one place a meander is between 7 and 9 miles around while a 
trail across its neck is less than forty rcds. The stream is nearly 100 feet 
wide and rather deep. It has numerous rapids but no falls. Its rapids are 
in places where the stream cuts across the upturned edges of fault blocks 
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 streain 
(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 lower 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 River 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- 
