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later. They are generally covered with cedar trees. The orig- 

 inal growth was oak and hickory, and this was succeeded, when 

 cut, by the red cedar to a great extent. On Hook mountain the 

 timber of the east end was cut about 35 years ago, some parts a 

 little later. Some is now being cut for fencing, etc., the trees 

 running from 20 to 30 feet long, and cutting posts worth one 

 and one-half cents per foot. A portion of the mountain near 

 Tom's point was cut off from 8 to 20 years ago, and the growth 

 is slow, consisting of oak, hickory, chestnut and whitewood, but 

 little cedar, and it is generally true that there is little cedar all 

 the way down on the east slope of the mountain, but on the 

 west slope, wherever the oak and hickory is cut off, red cedar 

 comes up abundantly. In one place the original forest had been 

 cut off not over three years ago, and scarcely a sprout could be 

 seen excepting red cedar. The oak and hickory is large, some 

 of it apparently over 100 years old. 



On Long Hill the timber is short and thin, with a good many 

 red cedars, and a very little timber that would pay to cut. 

 There is very little chestnut on this ridge. 



Around Troy Hills and northward to Boonton, the larger 

 timber is cut, from time^ to time, for various 'uses, but the tracts 

 being held in connection with farms are not cut off as a whole. 

 Near Littleton some timber was sold 30 years ago for $60 per 

 acre. Parsippany woods, east of Tabor, is about 40 years old, 

 although a freshly-cut stump was noted 51 years old. The wood 

 is light, 30 acres being recently sold for $20 per acre. Red 

 cedars have come up here quite thickly, especially on former 

 pasture lands. The wood is mainly oak and chestnut, and is all 

 deciduous, excepting the red cedar. Along the road from Tabor 

 to Parsippany there are some oak and chestnut trees which 

 appear to be from 100 to 150 years old. North of Lee meadows 

 there is some timber said to be worth $75 per acre. The bal- 

 ance of the tract has had the large trees cut out, leaving mostly 

 trees of about 30 years' growth. 



On Horse hill, east of Morris Plains, the timber is from 4 to 7 

 inches in diameter and 20 to 35 feet high, on the south end, 

 while on the top and east slope it is from 10 to 20 inches in 

 diameter, and toward the north end from 2 to 5 inches in 

 diameter and 10 to 25 feet high, but here also there is some bet- 



