aspens brought from downstream made the total 

 of the harvest seven hundred and thirty-two trees; 

 and with these went several hundred small willows. 

 Altogether these made a large green brush-pile 

 that measured more than a hundred feet in cir- 

 cumference, and after it settled averaged four feet 

 in depth. This was the food-supply for the on- 

 coming winter. The upper surface of this stood 

 about one foot above the surface of the water. 



Five years after the completion of this dead- 

 wood dam it was so overgrown with willows and 

 grass that the original material the dead tree- 

 trunks that formed the major portion of it was 

 completely covered over. The new pond was used 

 but one season. All the aspens that were made 

 available by the dam of the pond were cut in one 

 harvest. The place is now abandoned, old ponds 

 and new. 



