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A. Well, Hurd puts the logs on the cars and takes them to his 

 mills. 



Q. Where is the Everton Lumber Company*with reference to these 

 lots? 



A. About seven miles east. 



Q. What method is there to get the logs from these lands to the 

 Everton mill ? 



A Well, the easterly portion of the land would go to the Everton 

 mills very conveniently; the westerly portion will not. 



Q. How would the eastern portion go? 



A. Draw it with teams. > 



Q. How would the westerly portion go? 



A. They wouldn!t go. 



Q. What would the Everton company do with them if they had 

 those lands ? 



A. I don't know. 



Q. Are there water facilities for taking the logs from the western 

 portion to the mills below ? 



A Tou could do so by hauling them far enough. 



Q. How far would you have to haul ? 



A. I couldn't tell you how far; it is quite a distance over to the 

 branch; I don't know how far, because that road was built in there 

 six years ago and they don't pay any attention to the streams at all 

 after they get a road; the streams were of no account after the rail- 

 road was built there six years ago. 



Q. Do- you know the market price of timber lands in Franklin 

 county at the north end of the woods ? 



A. I don't know as I do; I suppose their value ought to be subject 

 the same as another point near a stream — it will depend upon how 

 much timber is on the land and how near a stream it is. 



Q. How much id well-timber land worth an acre? 



A. Virgin forest well located, do you mean ? 



Q. .Yes, sir. , 



A. Pour dollars and thirty-five cents and $4.50 has been the sales. 



Q. That is all it is worth? 



A. I say it is what the sales are. 



Q. What sales have you in mind ? 



A. Of the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh townships by Meigs, 

 Dodge & Co , and the Norwood Lumber Company bought hajf of the 

 thirty-seventh township, and I am told recently that the Morgan 

 Lumber Company bought some in thirty-fifth township at $35 an 

 acre; that is very nice pine land. 



