300 



<Q. What timber is taken in lumbering? 



A. In our country; it is spruce, hemlock and pine, and some iew 

 balsams. 



Q. That is the percentage of timber fit for lumbering in that 

 locality ? 



A. Yes, sir; I should say it was not higher than ten per cent. 



Q. How would the taking out of that percentage of trees affect the 

 forest? 



A. As a general thing, in three or four years, if you didn't see the 

 stumps, you wouldn't know that there had ever been any cut. 



Gross-examined : 

 By Mr. Adams: 



Q. How many soft-wood trees would an acre there cut on the 

 ayerage ? 



A. I never have made an estimate in regard to the trees; we esti- 

 mate it by standard logs. 



Q. You have been over a good many acres of land that have been 

 lumbered, and seen the stumps; how long have you been a lumberman? 



A. I have lumbered, with the 'exception of two years, until 1885, 

 since 1857., 



Q. You have been a lumberman since 1857, and have cut a great 

 many trees, and cut over a great many acres ? 



A., Yes, sir. 



Q. Can you tell this committee how many lumber trees you take off 

 of an acre ? 



A. I have never figured it in that way; we have always figured by 

 the standard log; when we go in to estimate a lumber lot for the 

 purpose of buying it, we estimate how many standard logs there are 



Q. I didn't ask that; I ask you from your own experience and your 

 own recollection to give an estimate of the number of trees that was 

 taken off to the acre on the average — what you have done yourself 

 and seen since 1857 ? 



A. I couldn't give anything accurate. 

 . Q. Would it be as many as thirteen trees to the acre, in your 

 judgment? 



A. I think not on an average. 



Q. How many on the average, if you can bring before your mind 

 several years of your life ? 



A. We calculate about twenty market, standard logs, to the acre; it 

 might run as high as fifteen; twelve to fifteen. 



Q. And in cutting them you leave the tops? 



