SCHEDULE OF INQUIRIES. 73 



Txr. MABKET. (g=unliinited; l=:linuted; n:=none at all.) 



WMte Pine stumpage, g-; logs, g; lumber, g; firewood, l-n; mill 

 : refuse is used. 



Norway stumpage, g; logs, g; lumber, g; firewood, l-n; mill refuse 

 -is used. 



Hemlock stumpage, 1; logs, 1; lumber, 1. 



White Cedar stumpage, 1; logs, g. 



Tamarack stumpage, n; logs, l-n. 



Oak stumpage, 1; logs, 1; lumber, g; firewood, 1. 



-Elm stumpage, 1; logs, 1; lumber, g; firewood, 1. 



Basswood stumpage, 1; logs, 1; lumber, g; firewood, 1. 



Bircb stumpage, 1; logs, 1; lumber, g; firewood, 1. 



Ash stumpage, 1; logs, 1; lumber, g; firewood, 1. 



Maple stumpage, 1; logs, 1; lumber, g; firewood, 1. 



Poplar stujupage, 1; logs, 1; lumber, g; firewood, 1. 



Chiefly Birch and Maple is sold for fuel. 



Hemlock bark, good; Oak bark, none to be had. 



Note. — Stumpage of hemlock and hardwoods has no ready market; 

 'it is sold for the labor of clearing, etc.; hemlock stumpage is being 

 sold for bark purposes to a limited degree. 



Two principal areas must be distinguished: 



(1) The level and rolling clay and loam lands occupying about 80 

 per cent, of the county, and stocked with a mixed forest of hard 

 woods, hemlock, and pine. The soil is generally a gray loam on a 

 •deep gray clay and loam; subsoil more or less mixed with gravel, and 

 some stone of larger size. In) places, as on nearing the rivers and 

 also along the sandy area in the northern part, the soil becomes a 

 sandy loam, usually with much gravel, and in other places, particu- 

 larly the southwestern and western part, it is a heavy loam and clay. 

 These differences in soil are reflected in the forest cover, almost pure 

 hard woods occupying the heaviest clays and most fertile loams, a 

 hemlock forest stocking the lighter gravelly loams and the pine pre- 

 dominating on the sandy stretches. 



The pine is cut from nearly all parts of this area, but its removal 

 has left the woods generally an undisturbed, dense, unculled, mixed 

 forest of hard wood and hemlock, in which the former existence of 

 pine is hardly noticed, since the humidity maintained, prevented 

 both the starting and running of fires. 



Narrow belts of sandy gravel and sand, along the Wisconsin and 

 some of its tributaries, formerly stocked with heavy pine forests, 

 now all cut and the slashings burned and largely waste. On some~T>f 

 these old slashings pine groves of young white pine may be seen. 



