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TEMPLETON. 



Templeton seems to be a natural white pine region. Al- 

 though the entire town has been pretty much cut over, there 

 are still some good white pine stands remaining, scattered 

 through different parts of the town. Two of the best of these 

 are in the extreme northern and in the extreme southern 

 portions of the town. There is practically no virgin growth 

 standing. The hardwoods are mostly coppice, and the greater 

 portion of them are unmerchantable. The town contains con- 

 siderable spruce and American larch. The best spruce is in a 

 mixture with white pine on the land of the State School for 

 Feeble-minded in the northern part of the town. Some of this 

 spruce calipered from 18 to 22 inches diameter, breast high. 

 White birch occupies a good proportion of the forested area. 

 The principal trees found here are white pine, chestnut, oak, 

 white birch, spruce, hemlock, maple, American larch, beech, 

 white ash, and, as usual, an abundance of gray birch. 



Templeton has two sawmills; one situated at Templeton 

 Center and owned by Bourn & Hadley cuts about 1,000,000 

 board feet of native stock per year. At Otter River there is a 

 mill owned by Louis LaPorte, with a capacity of 8 M board 

 feet per day when it runs. This mill saws native stock only. 



Among the wood-using industries are the following : 



These concerns use pine, maple, oak, spruce, beech, tulip, 

 poplar and white and yellow birch. A considerable amount of 

 this lumber is obtained from outside the State. 



