96 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NEW JERSEY. 



for a time. In abandoned clearings the growth is exclusively 

 pine. 



East of the New Jersey Southern Railroad, in Monmouth 

 county, the mixed belt is mostly oak and chestnut of all grades, 

 from brush up to merchantable timber. The latter term is here 

 used to include timber suitable for heavy railroad ties as well as 

 larger trees suitable for sawing into dimension timber. In the 

 Hominy hills, south of Colt's Neck, it is mostly pine, little of 

 merchantable size. Westward from Farmingdale to Charleston 

 Springs it is quite evenly mixed, the merchantable timber being 

 confined to the vicinity of the highway from Lakewood to Free- 

 hold. From Charleston Springs to Hornerstown the line 

 between pine and oak is quite sharply drawn, the pine being 

 generally small and the oak of merchantable size. Indeed, the 

 heaviest oak timber seen was in this vicinity. Proceeding 

 southwesterly, the mixed belt retreats eastward to Collier's 

 Mills, and the oak lands west are, as usual, well cleared. 



Southwesterly from Collier's Mills, beyond Brindletown, pine 

 predominates in the mixed belt and is of larger size, about one-half 

 merchantable. Thence to New Lisbon it is more evenly mixed, 

 but of smaller size, brush and light timber. 



A good deal of land has been cleared just west of Asbury Park, 

 but thence to New Lisbon there has been practically no clearing 

 during the last fifteen years. Thence to Clayton there are a few 

 clearings in and near the mixed belt, but south from Clayton, to 

 Elmer, they are more numerous, and south of Elmer a good 

 deal of territory has been cleared and brought under cultivation, 

 especially around Rosenhayn, between Bridgeton and Millville, 

 and east of Fairton. 



Continuing from New Lisbon southwesterly, we find very 

 little merchantable timber. Southeast from Medford, at Indian 

 Mills and Tabernacle, there is a notable southeasterly encroach- 

 ment of the oak and clearings, upon the pine belt. The mixed 

 timber here has been cut very close, and what remains is mostly 

 brush. It is little better anywhere southwest as far as Williams- 

 town. Oak brush predominates throughout, accompanied by 

 much small timber, and especially just south of Clementon. 

 The general absence of good timber near the clearings here is 

 probably attributable to close cutting for firewood and other 



