down timber was found: 100,000 feet of cut 

 and down cork pine which had not been re- 

 moved and which had probably been there 

 four or five years; 12,000 ties, a large part of 

 which were partially manufactured and aban- 

 doned; 1,650 telephone poles; 80,000 feet of 

 down and standing cedar shingle timber; 250 

 cofds of spruce, and 2,900 cords of wood. 

 Some parts of the cedar had been removed,, 

 and the rest seemed to be practically aban- 

 doned. The stumpage prices of this class of 

 material are as follows: Cedar ties, 20 cents 

 each; white pine, $18 per thousand feet; 

 spruce, $1 per cord; shingle timber, $4 per 

 thousand feet, and cordwood, 40 cents per 

 foot. At these prices the value of the wasted 

 timber was $5,930. 



Because of the careless methods used in 

 felling timber on Sections 25 and 26, T. 30 N., 

 R. 5 W., a large number of the pine trees 

 were broken. In the hardwoods, fully 20 per 

 cent of the value of the stand was wasted or 

 left on the ground. This material included 

 logs, heading, bolts, staves, and ties, in addi- 

 tion to a large quantity of marketable wood. 



In T. 30 N., R. 6 W., no attention was paid 

 to the disposal or piling of slash, and much 

 of it was thrown into the edges of heavy, 

 uncut stands of hardwood timber. In the 

 E. y 2 of S. W. %, Sec. 22 the cutting was 

 very wasteful, and many trees which should 

 have been cut, and logs, skids, heading bolts 

 and wood were abandoned. The slash con- 



