FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 



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of planting areas, etc. The value of the map resulting from this survey has already 

 made itself apparent when selecting the location of wood-distilling plants, as well as 

 roads and dams in connection with such plants. 



The office map will be completed in portfolio sheets, 25 x 30 inches in size, and a 

 reduced map for field use will be made to a scale of four inches to the mile, on which 

 a ten-acre lot is still recognizable. 



Three different methods of survey were employed, furnishing interesting data 

 for comparison of cost, which will be detailed in a special report, the cost varying 

 between $44 and $82 per square mile, the cheapest method being for most purposes 

 serviceable enough. Negotiations are pending for the sale of the survey to the 



TIE MAKING. 



United States Geological Survey and thereby recovering some portion of the expen- 

 diture which that survey would have had to incur in securing the topography of 

 this portion of the State. 



Rpad-bailding, Districting and Opening-tip. 



In connection with the survey in township 23, the work of subdivision and open- 

 ing-up was begun. 



For the convenience of an orderly conduct of a forest management and for pur- 



