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&c. as is done in America, just as a curiosity for future 

 generations. The Indian as I have always found him, 

 in his natural state far away from the striving world of 

 civilization, is a peaceful, often dirty but altogether 

 natural looking man, he is most hospitable to the 

 stranger, naturally good in morals, tradable in his own 

 groove of life, and in every way a man calculated to be 

 worth the study and comparison of a civilized man along- 

 side of himself. He is truly nature's own child and we 

 have to remember that the soil he is on belongs to him 

 when we deal with him. 



300 ACRE GRANT = 20,000 CUBIC FT, = 5OO LOGS AT AVERAGE of 40 FT. 

 PER LOG = 66| CUBIC FT. PER ACRE = if LOGS PER ACRE. 



Day's Labour of one Man. 



Days. 



Erefting Building... ... ... ... ... 200 



Squaring 20,000 cubic ft. at 50 cubic ft. per day ... 400 

 Path making for 3 miles of timber path, or 1,320 roods, at 



4j roods per day ... ... ... ... 293$ 



Allowance made of same in day's labour for moderate 



bridging ... ... ... ... ... 100 



Canting, Slewing and Jawing, 500 logs at 8 logs per day 62]- 



Boring 2 holes in each log, 500 logs at 50 logs per day 10 



Sniping 500 logs at 20 logs per day... ... ... 25 



per day... ... ... ... ... ... 6,000 



Hauling 20,000 cubic ft. over a 3 mile path at 3*3 cubic ft. 



Clearing the creek and making stop-offs = say ... 1,000 



Transporting 2,000 cubic ft. down a long creek to river at 



25 cubic ft. per day ... ... ... ... 800 



Making 80 bush rope punt slings at i sling per day ... 80 



Making 40 water beams at i beam per day ... ... 40 



Loading 20,000 cubic ft. at 150 cubic ft. per day ... 133 J 

 Taking 20,000 cubic ft. in punts to town ; discharging and 



returning at 50 days per 1,000 cubic ft, ... ... 1,000 



Miscellaneous days labour... ... ... ... 356 



20,000 cubic ft. to put in town ^^ days labour... ... 10,500 



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