A FOREST WORKING PLAN. 42/ 



some rocks, cutting the small brush in the flow near Raquette Lake, and making 

 cuts across some of the crooked bends in the stream. Another small dam would 

 need to be constructed on the outlet of Shallow Lake at the point designated on 

 the lumber map as an available site for a dam (see map). Some improvements 

 would also be necessary on the stream between Shallow Lake and Cranberry Pond 

 before logs could be driven from Shallow to Raquette Lake. 



If all the stumpage in this watershed was purchased by one party, the improve- 

 ment of this stream would furnish the cheapest means of getting the timber to 

 Raquette Lake. If the recommendations made in the working plan of Township 

 40 were carried out, it could be manufactured at this point and. shipped out by 

 rail, or driven down stream to the markets on the river below. 



The timber in the western part of this compartment, along the line of Town- 

 ships 41 and 8, is naturally tributary to Raquette Lake by way of the outlet of 

 Queer Lake. The improvement of the streams and construction of dams need 

 not necessarily do any injury to the timber standing along the shores of the 

 lakes or streams, as log driving for this short distance should be finished before 

 the leaves commence to come out on the trees. With a properly constructed 

 dam, built with the trip-sill and bed-pieces of the sluice low enough so that the 

 water would not be raised above its normal height in the lakes when the dam 

 was open, the danger of flooding the roots of the standing trees would be avoided. 

 No improvement of streams or construction of dams should be allowed, however, 

 except under the direct supervision of an inspector competent to determine 

 whether or not the work is being carried out as first specified. 



There is a very small amount of timber near the west line of Township 41, 

 in the Cascade Lake drainage, which would require some up-grade hauling in 

 order to bring it to Shallow Lake, but the grade is not sufficient to cause any 

 serious difficulty in bringing the timber over the divide. 



If only the timber on this compartment in Township 41 was purchased, and 

 it was to be shipped by railroad to some point for manufacture, it could be 

 hauled to Shallow Lake, and a branch track from the Raquette Lake Railway 

 to Shallow Lake constructed, leaving the railroad at the same point as the 

 branch advised to Sucker Brook Bay (see working plan of Township 40), 

 • and turning from that route to Shallow Lake near the point where the trail 

 from Shallow Lake to Lower Brown's Tract Pond connects with the old Sucker 

 Brook wagon road (see lumbering map). This would save the expense of driving 

 timber from Shallow Lake to Raquette Lake. Some up-hill hauling would be 

 necessary in bringing the timber from around Cranberry Pond to Shallow Lake, 

 but the grade is light. 



