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A. Yes, sir. 



Q. About when ? 



A. It was in December some time; I can't call to mind the date. 



Q. Last December? 



A. Last December. 



Q. Did you investigate the matter. 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. As one of the foresters of the commission you investigated it ? 



A. I investigated it and reported to the forest commission office. 



Q. Have you your report with you ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Bead it, please ? 



A. [Reading.] 



January 15, 1891. 

 The Forest Commission : 



Gentlemen. — According to instructions received from Mr. Garmon, 

 January fifth, I made a personal examination of lots 228 and 91 Tp. 

 11, O. M. T., found out that there is, undoubtedly, a trespass on lot 

 228, Tp. 11, done by H. Putnam Hartwell's agent in 1887 and 1888. 



There is a lumber road running through the south portion of the 

 lot on which I counted seven skidways and a double header. 



Putnam, I understand, cut on lots 229 and 210 for Hartwell that 

 winter. I should judge all of the logs along this lumber road were 



cut on lot 228. 



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I also went on to lot 91. I could not find any cutting on this lot 

 but Putnam cut on lot 111; B. Turner's lot, I understand, in 1889, 

 1890. I can not determine whether he cut over on 92 without fuller 

 notes of the lot. 



The S. E. corner is marked on a beech tree 111, 112, 92, 93, there is 

 a plain marked line to this corner between lots 93 and 112, but then 

 it stops, but- B. Turner has surveyed from this corner beyond the 

 cutting, but made no corner. 



About ten rods from the beech corner is a hemlock marked on four 

 sides with witness marks, here is a plain line with old blazes to the 

 corner of 91, the chopping does not extend west of this line. 



[Diagram.] 



The hemlock has no figures on it that I can make out, but the 

 beech the figures are plain. 



I went to the lower Saranac lake, talked with P. Graves, the man in 

 Milo Miller's employ; he claims to know nothing about any logs cut 

 on Tp. 24. I could not find any logs near Alexander's hotel, so if 



