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the percentage of timber will run about 70 per cent. It is 

 characteristic that where timber occurs the stocking will 

 generally run complete. 



The Sterling Lumber Company buys wood lots of varying 

 size, installs portable mills, and after cutting the timber disposes 

 of the land. There are no permanent mills working at the 

 present time in Sterling. Pine and chestnut are cut in largest 

 quantities, with small amounts of oak and other hardwoods. 

 During the season of 1912-13 the amount cut was 2,000,000 

 board feet. This was taken from Sterling and surrounding towns. 



There is a chair factory in the town, owned and operated by 

 Edwin Stevenson. This factory uses practically all of the native 

 woods, requiring about 200 M board feet per year. A small 

 mill is run in connection with the factory. 



Messrs. T. and E. R. Buck also operate a chair factory in 

 town. They use practically every kind of lumber in the 

 manufacture of their product. 



^ Hardwoods are largely gray birch and red maple. 



2 Pitch pine and hemlock. 



