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direction than is indicated by the coloring by "slabbing" the sides of the 

 mountain. The outlines are given just as the division would naturally occur. 

 The removal of the timber by the Cedar River route offers the shortest and 

 cheapest log haul to a point from whence the timber could be floated. The route 

 via Sagamore Lake to South Inlet, from whence the timber could be driven to 

 Raquette Lake, is much longer. In the northern and western portions of the 

 compartment the timber which was formerly removed was "slabbed" across from 

 the stream on which the Fish Creek camp is located to the Big Marsh (see 

 lumbering map), thence across this wide swamp or marsh, over a slight divide 

 between the two watersheds and down the Wakeley Brook to the Cedar River. 

 This same method would have to be applied in bringing timber from the Wakeley 

 Brook drainage back across to the Raquette Lake waters. 



It is something very unusual for as large a tract as this compartment, which 

 comprises all the territory lying in between the Blue Ridge Mountains on the 

 north, the Wakeley Mountains to the south and east, and Bradley Mountains to 

 the west, to be so situated that the timber standing upon it can be taken 

 equally well, in different directions, to streams whose general water courses are 

 so nearly diametrically opposite. This peculiar feature affords an opportunity of 

 selling the stumpage to any one of the many different manufacturers of lumber 

 and wood pulp located on the Hudson and Raquette Rivers. 



No. 6. Silver Run Compartment. — The timber in this compartment, which 

 is located in the extreme southwest portion of Township 6, and comprises all the 

 watershed between Bradley Mountain and the Wakeley Mountain range, is natur- 

 ally tributary by water course to the South Branch of the Moose River via 

 Silver Run. Moose River has been improved for the purpose of driving logs 

 above this point, and the lumbermen would experience no serious difficulty in 

 driving logs from this compartment down Moose River to the railroad or mills 

 located on the stream below. The branch of Silver Run down which these logs 

 would have to be sent does not contain sufficient water to float them. It would 

 be, therefore, advisable to haul them direct to the South Branch of Moose 

 River. On account of the inaccessibility and smallness of this compartment, 

 the long distance which supplies would have to be hauled in order to remove the 

 timber, and the long haul necessary to get the logs to the stream whence they 

 could be driven, a large stumpage price can not reasonably be expected. It 

 would be advisable to sell the stumpage on all the compartments which are 

 tributary to the South Branch of the Moose River in one sale to one party, if 

 possible, since by decreasing the cost of log driving by furnishing a larger 

 number of logs to be driven it is probable that an increased price for the timber 

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