SCHEDULE OF INQUIRIES. 71 



SCHEDULE OP INQUIEIES ON FOREST CONDITIONS 

 OF WISCONSIN; LINCOLN COUNTY. 



[FiUbert Eoth, 1897.] 



[References: H. W. Wright, John Woodlock, Herm. Bush, William 

 Bradley, J. J. Hoffman, C. D. Clark, L. N. Anson, N. Emerson, and 

 George Langley.] 



I. OWNERSHIP. 



Acres. 



Total area 576,000 



Total area (Forestry Division) 576,000 



Land surface (Forestry Division) 572,000 



Land surface (U. S. Land Office Eept.) 581,000 



Land surface (chief geographer, U. S. Geol. Survey in Cen- 

 sus Bui., 1890) 448,000 



1. Actual settlers, farmers, etc *49,000 



2. Private ovyners not occuipying land 447,000 



3. Of this is owned by lumbermen 60 per cent. 



4. Railway companies (Wisconsin Central Railway) 41,800 



5. Township 



6. County 4,000 



7. State 19,440 



8. Of this in bodies over 160 acres 66 per cent. 



9. United States lands 11, 200 



n. GENERAL SUBFACE CONDITIONS. Per Cent. 



Acres. of total. 



1. Cultivated land 4-9,000 



2. Forest and waste lands 553,000 97 



3. Virgin forests 345,000 60 



4. Virgin forests in tracts of over 160 acres 345,000 60 



5. Cut-over lands 158,000 28 



6. Swamp 50,000 9 



7. Lakes ". 10,000 2 



8. Land best to be left as forest 145,000 



*The U. S. Census, 1890, gives 63,481; the above as figure of state cen- 

 sus, 1895. 

 +U. S. Census of 1890 gives this at 10,500; the above is State census. 



