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the county is Oak openings and prairie (extensively settled) in its 
western, and Jack Pine woods in its eastern part; the remaining four- 
fifths of the county are forest. Of this, the part east of the Chippewa 
River and small tracts along the river on the west side are covered by 
a mixed forest, in which Hemlock and Birch are abundant, except on 
the southeastern part of the county, where the Birch and Hemlock 
forest merges into an Oak forest. In the timbered part of the county 
west of the river the Hemlock is missing and Birch is much less common. 
Though the Pine has been cut in all parts of this large county, there is 
still a considerable amount scattered and in isolated bodies, which is 
estimated at about 500,000,000 feet. The hard woods have been cut 
into in the southeastern and also in the northwestern part, and large 
tracts have suffered heavily from the fires of the large Pine slashings 
following all the streams; the Hemlock has been cut but little, but, 
like the hard woods, has been damaged by fire. The standing hard 
wood and Hemlock yield about 5,000 feet per acre, the yield in the pure 
hard woods of the western part being lighter. About 800,000,009 feet 
of Hemlock and about 1,100,000,000 feet of hard woods are believed to 
exist in this county. In the hard woods in the western and also the 
southeastern woods the Oak is predominant, but on the whole forms 
little over 10 per cent, while Basswood and Birch constitute over half 
the total supply. 
The swamps, extensive only in the northeastern part of the county, 
have been much run over by fires and are, therefore, very poorly stocked. 
Large areas of burned-over wastes occur along all the streams. 
Clark County.—The greater part is a level loam land area, which was 
formerly covered by a forest of hard woods mixed with a remarkably 
heavy stand of large White Pine. Hemlock occurs only in the north- 
eastern portion. The western and southern part is invaded by the 
sandy area covering Jackson and Eau Claire counties, and was formerly 
covered by a pine forest without hard woods. The pine has nearly all 
been cut and was sawed at La Crosse and Eau Claire, and only about 
200,000,000 feet are believed to be still standing. The hard woods 
are culled especially for Oak, and have suffered from fires. The 
remaining supply is estimated at only about 650,000,000 feet, of which 
Oak is still nearly 30 per cent, the remainder being chiefly Basswood 
and Elm. Clark has few swamps, and these are poorly stocked. 
The greater part of the country to-day is still covered by culled hard 
woods; much of it is settled and only the sandy pinery presents tracts 
of bare waste many miles in extent. 
Douglas County.—The northern one-third of this county is red clay 
land with pinery, in which is found an unusual mixture, for this State, 
of Pine (chiefly White Pine), White and Yellow Birch, and other hard 
woods, generally with more or less Cedar and Tamarack. South of this 
and extending south to the St. Croix and east to the Brule is a similar 
forest of pines with a somewhat heavier mixture of hard woods, heaviest 
