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Jack works could be erected at Shallow Lake for loading the logs upon cars. 

 There is a wide marsh, as shown on the lumbering map, which it would be 

 necessary to cross, but nothing to prevent the construction of a branch railroad 

 track if it was desirable to take the timber out this way. All the timber 

 around Pelcher and Haymarsh Ponds and Queer Lake would naturally come into 

 Shallow Lake with a short and cheap log haul. The natural snow and watershed 

 of Queer Lake is so small that it would not be advisable to attempt to drive 

 logs in the stream above the head of the still water above Shallow Lake. The 

 only improvement which would be necessary on the stream above this point 

 would be to clear out some of the old slashes in the creek between the head of 

 boat navigation and Queer Lake, for the purpose of giving the water a free and 

 unobstructed flow. Logs could well be landed on the still water of the level 

 above Shallow Lake, and be driven down into Shallow. Lake on the first freshets 

 in the spring. If they were to be driven to Raquette Lake, there should be a 

 sufficient force of men employed on the drive to keep the logs running down the 

 outlet of Shallow Lake, through Cranberry Pond, and so on out into Raquette 

 Lake, in order to finish up the log driving and leave the water at its natural 

 height before the leaves come out on the trees, and thus prevent flooding the 

 roots of the trees. 



All the timber in this compartment in Township 41 which is in the Beaver 

 Brook drainage can be taken without great expense, by any one of three routes. 

 It can be hauled down Beaver Brook and landed in the storage boom at Sucker Brook 

 Bay, as there is a level swamp reaching from Sucker Brook Bay to Beaver 

 Brook, across which the logs could be hauled without any up-grade (see lumber- 

 ing map) ; or it could be hauled across to Shallow Lake and driven down the outlet 

 into the same bay on Raquette Lake; or if it was desired to take it out by rail, 

 it could, by slight up-grade hauling, be brought to the Raquette Lake Railway at 

 Upper Brown's Tract Pond. The railway runs near the south shore of Upper 

 Brown's Tract Pond, and by putting in a siding here, a steam jack works could 

 be utilized for loading all the timber in the upper end of the Beaver Brook Valley 

 from the pond, onto cars at this point. In addition a large amount ot other 

 timber on the tract could be cheaply hauled by team to this point. The 

 advisability of doing this would depend, of course, upon the parties who purchased 

 the timber, and the direction in which it was to be taken. A glance at the 

 contours upon the lumbering map will show that any one of these routes is 

 feasible, although differing as to cost. 



No. 2. Seventh and Eighth Lakes and Brown's Tract Pond Compartment, 

 Townships 5 and 41. — The timber in this compartment is all tributary either to 



