FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 2I9 



photographs shown in PI. \'III. figs, i and 2. were taken, there were only 

 10 inches of water above the skiice floor. 



The site recommended for the dam is shown in PI. IX. figs, i and 2. 

 and is the best location available. The bed of the stream is narrowed here, 

 and there are good, high banks, especially on the south side. This is the 

 nearest point to the lake at which a dam can be built entirely on State 

 land, as the dividing line between the State land and private holdings in 

 Township 35 runs across the combined dam and bridge now in use and 

 clears this location by about 100 feet on the north side of the stream. 

 A dam 12 feet high built here would have its top exactly level with the 

 top of the present dam, and would raise the lake when full of water to just 

 the same level. This level is shown by the white flag on the pole in PL 

 IX. fig. I. The location of the proposed dam, the original bridge piers, 

 and in the distance the present bridge and dam, are clearly shown in PI. 

 IX, fig. 2. 



There are several short sets of rapids between this point and Forked 

 Lake similar to those already shown. The building of a dam here and 

 the removal of the obstructions above — the old bridge piers and the present 

 dam and large boulders — would allow the water to be discharged, through 

 properly constructed sluices, with a sufficient head above it to give the 

 required pressure to flush the stream below and worfld furnish a sufficient 

 depth in the sluices to carry timber through the dam when there was water 

 enough in the stream to float it away. The removal of the present dam 

 and other obstructions would allow the water to flow evenly and steadily 

 over the wide and shallow portion of the Outlet where the present dam is 

 located, and while furnishing a sufficient depth to float timber down to the 

 dam, the added width of unobstructed flow would serve to keep the deeper 

 and more narrow sluice-way below filled with water, according to the height 

 and pressure of the water from the lake above. 



The prevailing wind would be a decided advantage in driving logs 

 from the lake downstream, as it would aid in moving them to the Outlet 

 and holding them down to the sluicing booms. There is a large boulder 

 which stands out of the water in Outlet Bay at the .point shown on ]\Iap III, 

 which would furnish an excellent boom stay for the purpose of holding the 

 logs down the Outlet if desired. Booms could be hung to this rock by 

 drilling a hole in it and using a large iron split plug and wedge with a ring 

 in the plug. The booms could be opened on one side, or both, as the case 

 might require. These are some of the manv natural advantages for lum- 



