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SO east of Hinckley. Only Norway pine stumps are used, 

 and they must be old enough to have had the sap wood, 

 which is the part nearest the bark, decayed. The com- 

 pany pays $4 for 3,000 pounds, reckoned a cord, of stump 

 and roots; and the product from such quantity is 40 

 bushels of charcoal, 25 gallons of turpentine, 20 gallons 

 of tar and some citric acid. 



UPPER ST. CROIX VALLEY. 



About the middle of September I made a more extended 

 trip in Pine County and visited the upper St. Croix valley 

 of Minnesota, about 70 miles above Taylor's Falls, being 

 that part about east from Hinckley, and was impressed 

 by the large size of the river so far up. The country was 

 originally pine forest which was cut many years ago, and 

 most of the land was burned over in the dry season of 

 1894. It is now grown up to what might be called brush 

 forest, of which the greater part is poplar; but there are 

 occasional bunches of valuable hardwood trees, including 

 ash, that escaped fire. I was noticing particularly the 

 regrowth of pine, and I would say that not more than a 

 twentieth part of the area that I saw in a drive of about 

 25 miles in Pine County is well stocked with pine. 

 The pine that I saw was almost wholly jack pine. 

 The country is generally level or moderately undulating, 

 but with depressions along the river courses. Lakes are 

 not common, but streams are frequent and are said to 

 contain trout. The land is generally free from rocks 

 and appears to be considerably in demand for farming 

 purposes. 



OUTPUT FROM MINNESOTA FORESTS I907-I908. 



There is no system of statistics showing the amount of 

 timber that is cut in the Minnesota forests in any one 

 year or season. It has been the general understanding 



