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ANNUAL CONSUMPTION OF LOGS AND PULPWOOD, 1890-1897. 



FEET. FEET. 



1890 — Saw logs, spruce, hemlock, pine and hardwoods, 325,690,634 

 Pulpwood, 94,638 cords, .... 51,966,262 



377> 6 5 6 > 8 9 6 



1891 — Saw logs, . . . . . . . 286,710,593 



Pulpwood, 126,183 cords, .... 69,274,283 



1892 — Saw logs, . 406,954,200 



Pulpwood, 147,392 cords, .... 80,918,537 



1893 — Saw logs, ... ... 355.050,528 



Pulpwood, 167,825 cords, .... 92,135,707 



1894 — Saw logs, ....... 288,700,269 



Pulpwood, 204,182 cords, .... 112,095,918 



1895 — Saw logs, ....... 297,610,161 



Pulpwood, 276,669 cords, . . . . 151,891,281 



1896 — Saw logs, ....... 270,215,372 



Pulpwood, 291,246 cords, .... 159,894,054 



355>9 8 4,876 



487,872,737 



447,186,235 



400,796,187 



449>5 OI >442 



430,109,426 



1897— Saw logs, . . ■ 284,907,544 



Pulpwood, 302,528 cords, .... 166,087,872 



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In comparing the production of the various years it will be noticed that, in 189 1, 

 the amount of logs sawed by the mills was far below that of the preceding or following 

 year. This was due to the dry weather in that season. The freshets or high water in 

 the streams did not last long enough to enable the log drivers to float the usual stock 

 of timber to the mills, a large share of the logs being left along the shores or stranded 

 in long jams on the river bars. In some instances, where the whole drive had reached 

 the mill, there was not enough water to saw the entire stock, the mills being obliged 

 to shut down at times during the summer for lack of power. But in 1892, these logs 

 which had been left along the streams the year before, were driven to the booms in 



