PRACTICE OF TIMBER ESTIMATING 
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township, except of course that there are only 16 lots in this case. 
Hereafter the term “ lot ” applies to a forty-acre tract. 
Arriving at the tract to be examined, I usually first go entirely 
around the area so as to discover if there are any high ridges, and 
if so to determine their course; also to see whether or not the tract 
is all timbered, and to locate any vacant areas on its outer edges. 
While making this circuit we mark points at each 125 paces on the 
boundary. If the land is uniformly level, it is immaterial at which 
point on the boundary line the work is commenced. If the tract 
is very rolling, the strips taken must be run so as to cross the ridges 
at as nearly right angles as is possible. 
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Suppose we are at the southeast corner of the section and that we 
have an entire section of fairly level land to examine. My pacer 
and compassman (I have but one assistant) steps off 125 paces, 
say in a westerly direction, along the south line of lot 16, starting 
from the southeast corner of the section. This brings us to a 
point 20 rods west of this corner and a line drawn directly north 
from this point should be parallel with the east line of the lot, also 
parallel with the center line, if one were in existence and 20 rods 
distant from each of them. We proceed north from this point. At 
50 paces the assistant halts, gets his tally-book and hard pencil into 
action, and jots down each tree as I call them on to him. He 
heads the vertical columns with the varieties of timber common to 
the tract and tallies each kind under the proper heading. 
