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The total quantity planted to date is as follows : 



Fall of 1902 at Totals. 



Newton Hamilton, 13,610 13,610 



Fall of 1903 at 



Conewago, 43,364 43,364 



Spring of 1904 at 



Conewago, 25,096 



Pomeroy, 20,280 



West of Atglen, 16,537 



Atglen, 8,108 



70,021 



Fall of 1904 at 



Juniata Bridge, 20,730 



Newport, 29,505 



Vintage, ,. . 50,300 



Atglen & Susquehanna Branch, 



p - R - R -> 53>ooo 



153,535 



Total, 280,530 



All of the above places are in the State of Pennsyl- 

 vania. During the coming year we expect to plant 

 about 800,000 trees additional, likely 200,000 in the 

 spring and 600,000 in the fall. The land on which we 

 planted these trees, except a tract of fourteen acres at 

 Newton Hamilton, which was purchased for this par- 

 ticular purpose, are lands which the company has 

 owned for some time and which were acquired in 

 connection with old or new lines. 



There is probably no other timber which combines 

 so well the qualities of durability and hardness as does 

 the yellow locust. Evidences of its longevity in use 

 as tie timber are frequent on our road. The resistance 

 of locust timber to cutting under the rail is said to 

 exceed that of white oak, and it has been demonstrated 



