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cared for by the commission a second growth of soft timber has 

 sprung up that within fifteen or twenty years will probably attain 

 proportions sufficient to excite the cupidity of predatory timber- 

 cutters or enlist the capital of honest lumbermen. Lots 33 and 50, 

 containing 1,078 acres, because, of their accessibility to the river 

 and the size of the lots, are valued at four dollars per- acre. 

 Lot 34 and 567 acres of lot 42, aggregating 1,252 acres, we 

 valued at three dollars and a half per acre. Lot 42 has 100 acres 

 denuded and of no value. The west one-half of lot 35 and 416 acres 

 of lot 43, in all 754 acres, are put in at three dollars per acre. Lot 43 

 has 100 acres denuded and valueless. In this township are 6,528 

 acres of State land, of which 1,339 acres are partially lumbered, 1,905 

 acres lumbered, 200 acres denuded of no valve, and 3,084 acres of 

 forest at $3.55^ per acre. 



In township 15, Franklin county, lot 4, 4.119 acres, we valued at 

 four dollars per acre. Lot 7, forty-three acres of forest, 120 acres 

 denuded, we placed the value on forest land at two dollars and fifty 

 cents per acre. Lots 16 and 18 contain 283 acres which we valued at 

 three dollars per acre. There are in these lots 445£ acres at $3.21^ 

 per acre. These are forest lands, 120 acres denuded and valueless, 

 making a total of 565| acres in township 15 at an average valuation of 

 $2.53^ per acre. 



In township 18, lots 56, 57, 66 and 34^^ acres of lot 58 aggregating 

 1,261-j^r acres of denuded land lying upon and contiguous to the 

 shores of Osgood pond. These lots were long since denuded by axe 

 and fire and their value is largely hypothetical, but because the outlet 

 of Osgood pond can be easily damned and its waters held back for 

 the purpose of flooding the river below, to facilitate the running of 

 logs, and because these waters flowing down through Meacham lake, 

 form the east branch of the St. Eegis river, that these lands have some 

 value to the Eyerton Lumber Company, and were appraised by us at 

 seventy-five cents per acre. The assessment-roll of the town shows 

 that these lands are assessed at about seventy cents per acre. 



In fixing values upon the eighty-one parcels of land enumerated on 

 sheets marked Township 14, Franklin county, many perplexing diffi- 

 culties confronted the appraisers, to appreciate which a glance at the 

 map appended to the sheets is necessary. The marvellous irregu- 

 larity of shape and size and the singular isolation of many of the lots 

 can only be understood by studying the map. Of these eighty-one 

 lots there are only nineteen that contain 100 or more acres, while 

 there are twenty-four lots containing less than fifty acres each. 

 Some of these small parcels are partly cut over and partly 

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