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would be offered. It would hardly pay to make this long and costly log drive 

 for one small job, as it costs but little more to "pick the rear," or gather up 

 the logs hung up on the banks and formed in the side jams along the rapids, 

 behind a drive of 50,000 standards, than it does to gather up the rear for a 

 drive of 20,000 standards, and the cost of driving a small amount of logs is 

 proportionately much greater per standard than the cost of driving a large 

 amount. 



No. 7. Sumner Stream Compartment, Townships 5 and 6. — The timber on 

 this compartment is naturally tributary to the South Branch of the Moose River 

 via the Sumner stream. This compartment takes in a portion of the timber 

 along the south and east line of Township 5, together with the timber in Town- 

 ship 6. The Sumner stream (outlet of Lake Kora) has been improved for the 

 purpose of driving logs from its mouth where it connects with the South Branch 

 of the Moose River to a point about four miles below Lake Kora. A number of 

 years ago much of the pine which formerly stood on Township 4 was driven 

 down this stream into the Moose River, and so on down to Lyons Falls. The 

 foundations and frameworks of several of the old flood dams which were erected 

 at that time are still in evidence along the stream. One of these dams was 

 built on what is now private land, on the outlet of Lake Kora, a short distance 

 below the lake. All the land and timber around the shores of Lake Kora is 

 private property (see lumbering map), and in removing timber from this compart- 

 ment it would be necessary to cross some portions of this private tract, though 

 appreciable damage need not result. 



The water outlet, however, is the natural and most advisable one for removing 

 the timber from this compartment. But the amount of timber of the diameter 

 limit standing on this compartment which it is advised to remove is not large 

 enough to justify the unavoidable expense necessary to erect dams and otherwise 

 improve the Sumner stream sufficiently to make log driving possible unless there 

 was more timber to be driven down it than is included in this compartment. 

 There is considerable timber standing on Township 4 which is tributary to this 

 stream, but which is not included in this working plan. If this timber was 

 included and removed in succeeding seasons, it would be advisable to make 

 and maintain such improvements on the stream that logs could be driven 

 down into the South Branch of Moose River. 



It would also be possible, if desired, to take all of the timber on this 

 compartment through into the South Inlet Compartment, and down to Raquette 

 Lake via Mohegan Lake outlet, as there is low land extending through from Lake 

 Kora to Mohegan Lake, with a gradual descent to Mohegan Lake soon after leaving 



