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1 Mostly gray birch with a little white pine. 



Hardwick. 



Commercially speaking, chestnut is the most distinctive tree 

 in the town of Hardwick, and there is an unusua' amount of 

 commercial size present. White pine follows closely on chest- 

 nut, but it runs rather smaller. The western part of the town 

 is the most extensively wooded, but a considerable area in this 

 section was burned over in a large fire some years ago, so that 

 the woodland of better quality will be found in the eastern and 

 central parts. 



There are no wood-using industries in this town, unless the 

 paper mill at Wheelwright can be called such. The wood pulp 

 used in this mill, however, all comes from mills in Maine and 

 New Hampshire. A Mr. Spooner on the Greenwich road has a 

 water mill which apparently is seldom used. A Mr. Howard on 

 the Gilbertville road has a water mill which is still in use. 

 Formerly he operated and sawed timber from his own lands. 



