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amount of Pine by the government estima- timber-estimators over the same tracts, 



tors was absolutely unreliable; and it was with such results that the amounts of Pine 



remarkable that, in the case of nearly on many tracts were estimated by the tim- 



every tract, they showed much less Pine ber cruisers of the government at one- 



i Scale. sJwles Clinch i. . 



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STATE OF MINNESOTA 

 SHOWING LOCATION OF PARK 



THE PROPOSED MINNESOTA NATIONAL PARK, 

 of the Park Shaded. 



than was actually there. But the prospec- seventh of the actual amount thereon : and 



tive purchasers, 'the lumbermen, were not those tracts were so repor 



deceived thereby. They had, in anticipa- ment, and sales made on that 



tion of the public sale, sent their own of the purchasers was 



