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Clallam County. 



This county extends from the top of the Olympic Mountains north to 

 the Strait of Fuca and from near Dungeness on that strait to a little to the 

 south of LaPush on the Pacific coast, occupying a large area both to the 

 north and to the vest of the Olympics. The mountainous part of the county 

 is not regarded as containing any timber of present merchantable value. 

 The remainder of the county is heavily forested; but the ax has made in- 

 roads in these forests along the shores of the Strait of Fuca as far west as 

 Crescent Bay, and millions of feet of logs have been cut at Clallam Bay and 

 in the Hoko district on the same side of the peninsula. In addition, fires 

 have extended inland from these cuttings to the mountain districts, destroy- 

 ing large areas of timber. The western part of the county is still in the 

 virgin state. In this county hemlock and fir vie with each other in amount 

 of merchantable log-lumber. 



Area of timbered and other lands in Clallam county, Washington. 



Total area 1,824 square miles 



Present merchantable timber area 1,000 square miles 



Logged area 217 square miles 



Burned area 181 square miles 



Bare and unmerchantable timber area -126 square miles 



Estimate of timber in Clallam county, Washington. 1 



Fir 3,045,297 M. feet B. M. 



Spruce 1.758.845 M. feet B. M. 



Cedar 547.617 M. feet B. M. 



Hemlock 3,719,840 M. feet B. M. 



Total 9,071,599 M. feet B. M. 



Average per acre of timbered land. 15.700 feet B. M. 



Below is a description of the merchantable timber species as they occur 

 in the peninsula. 



7 Loc. cit.. p. 20. Remarks above apply. 



