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Q. Tou state the land you have there you consider worth one'dollar 

 and fifty cents an acre after it has been lumbered, or more ? 



A. After I have taken off, in my way of doing it, the merchantable 

 timber, that is what I stated. 



By Mr. Adams: 



Q. Take your tract where you bought the stumpage and practically 

 own the trees, on the average how many trees will that produce to 

 the acre ? 



A. I can't tell. 



Q. Will it run from twenty to thirty trees to the acre ? 



A. I don't think it will. 



Q. Will it run from fifteen to twenty trees to the acre ? 



A. No, I don't think it will; as we estimated on this tract there is 

 about a cord and a half of bark to the acre, and we estimated that it 

 takes four trees for a cord, which would make six trees to the acre of 

 hemlock; that makes a thousand and a half of lumber and we estimated 

 that there is somewhere between a thousand and fifteen hundred feet 

 of spruce per acre on there. 



Q. How many trees ? 



A. It would take about ten logs for a thousand and an average tree 

 would make about — say four trees per thousand. 



Q. That would make how many trees you expect to cut of spruce 

 and hemlock ? 



A. "Somewhere along twelve to fifteen trees. 



Q. In the ordinary way of lumbering the tree is felled, the logs are 

 cut out and the top is allowed to remain ? 



A. Yes. 



Q. And on the acre you may have the tree tops of twelve or fifteen 

 trees ? 



A. Tea, sir. 



Q. Are they cut up or anything done with them? 



A. No, sir. 



Q. Anil after a year they get pretty dry ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Suppose a fire gets into a tract of land that has been lumbered 

 in this way, what is the effect? 



A. It burns over. 



Q. Does it promote fire, make fire a great deal more dangerous ? 



A. That is the one objection to lumbering, is that it promotes fire. 



Q. After the land is lumbered the greater the danger to fire ? 



A- For two years after it is lumbered; it rots down after about two. 



