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worth a dollar or whether it is worth a cent or five dollars, withoat 

 an examination by an expert. 



By Mr. Camekon: 



Q. You have a contract with the Beaver River company, hayen't 

 you? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. To saw their timber from their lands ? 



A. They have no lands. 



Q. The stumpage? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Have you any objection to stating the terms of that contract to 

 the committee ? 



A. In what way, may I ask 1 



Q. On what conditions you saw that timber ? 



A. I have no objection, although I don't care particularly; I get 

 one dollar and eighty-seven and one-half cents a thousand for sawing 

 and piling. , 



Q. Does all the timber come to your mill off the lauds up there in 

 Franklin county; would that timber come down to your mill? 



A. No; that can't come there at, all. 



Q. Which way would it go ? 



A. The lands in Franklin county, I presume you refer to the 

 Everton company ? 



Q. Yes. 



A. That goes to the Everton mill somewhere on the St. Regis; 

 where it is I don't know; it doesn't come to me at all. 



Q. I doesn't come down the Beaver river? 



A. No, sir. 



By Chairman Ryan: 



Q. You stated that lands had no value from an agricultural point; 

 does that have reference to nearly all the 622,000 acres ? 



A. It has, practically all; there are isolated cases in the woods such 

 as an isolated meadow, " beaver meadow," they call it, that would have 

 a certain value outside of the timber, but those tracts are verv small; 

 what I had reference to was with regard to the prevailing topography 

 of the land. 



Q. I suppose there is some farming in there ? 



A. There are some farms in there within that 2,000,000 acres. 



By Mr. Cameron: 



Q. This one dollar and eighty-seven and one-half cents is for 1,000 



feet? * 



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