SCHEDULE OF INQUIRIES. 
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SCHEDULE OF INQUIRIES ON FOREST CONDITIONS 
OF WISCONSIN; LINCOLN COUNTY. 
[Filibert Roth, 1897.] 
[References: H. W. Wright, John Woodlock, Herm. Rush, William 
Bradley, J. J. Hoffman, C. D. Clark, L. N. Anson, N. Emerson, and 
George Langley.] 
I. OWNERSHIP. 
Acres. 
Total area. 576,000 
Total area (Forestry Division) . 576,000 
Land surface (Forestry Division) . 572,000 
Land surface (U. S. Land Office Rept.) . 581,000 
Land surface (chief geographer, U. S. Geol. Survey in Cen¬ 
sus Bui., 1890) . 448,000 
1. Actual settlers, farmers, etc. *49,000 
2. Private owners not occupying land. 447,000 
3. Of this is owned by lumbermen 60 per cent. 
4. Railway companies (Wisconsin Central Railway) . 41,800 
5. Township . . 
6. County . 4,000 
7. State . 19,440 
8. Of this in bodies over 160 acres 66 per cent. 
9. United States lands . 11,200 
II. GENERAL SURFACE CONDITIONS. Per Cent. 
Acres. of total. 
1. Cultivated land . *[9,000 
2. Forest and waste lands ,. 553,000 97 
3. Virgin forests . 345,000 60 
4. Virgin forests in tracts of over 160 acres. 345,000 60 
5. Cut-over lands . 158,000 28 
6. Swamp. 50,000 9 
7. Lakes . 10,000 2 
8. Land best to be left as forest. 145,000 
*The U. S. Census, 1890, gives 63,481; the above is figure of state cen¬ 
sus, 1895. 
•j-U. S. Census of 1890 gives this at 10,500; the above is State census. 
