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Land Types. 



1 Hardwoods are largely maple and gray birch, with small amounts of white birch and oak. % 



2 Large sizes, mostly hemlock and spruce; smaller, tamarack and pitch pine. 



UPTON. 



The timber land in Upton has been largely cut over within 

 twenty years, and most of the land is growing Class 3 sprouts. 

 Gray birch is more common in Upton than in most of the 

 surrounding towns, and the percentage 01 white oak is greater; 

 probably over half the oak in Upton is white oak. Chestnut 

 and white pine and hardwoods are the most important types. 

 There are several lots of merchantable pine still left in Upton, 

 but mostly in patches of a few acres each. 



At the time this survey was made the only mill working in 

 Upton was the portable mill of D. W. Gaskill of Blackstone. 

 He had about 300 M board feet to cut, mostly chestnut, oak 

 and pitch pine. Mr. B. C. Wood of Upton does considerable 

 cutting in Upton and near-by towns. The Upton Manufactur- 

 ing Company is a box company primarily, but they have their 



