Ontario Sessional Papers, 1901, . y cords of pulpwood per acre, and there would be about twentytrees of tamarac that would yield two hundred feet b. m. per tree. The land is good clayloam and fit for farming. We came to a bunch of spruce timber mixed with tamarac,both of good size the tract being about half a mile wide and one mile long. All thespruce was dead and the tamarac was quite green. I could not find the cause of this. August 11th.—We moved camp down the river about ten miles. On the way Inoticed some very nice red pine and jackpine growing on high sandy banks. I went upand e
Ontario Sessional Papers, 1901, . y cords of pulpwood per acre, and there would be about twentytrees of tamarac that would yield two hundred feet b. m. per tree. The land is good clayloam and fit for farming. We came to a bunch of spruce timber mixed with tamarac,both of good size the tract being about half a mile wide and one mile long. All thespruce was dead and the tamarac was quite green. I could not find the cause of this. August 11th.—We moved camp down the river about ten miles. On the way Inoticed some very nice red pine and jackpine growing on high sandy banks. I went upand examined it and found it to extend inland from a quarter of a mile to a mile. Theland is sandy loam. August 13th.—We left camp afc the eleventh rapid, and went down the river to thetwelfth rapid. About three miles of the land is low and flit and covered with smalltimber, viz., poplar, spruce, cedar and tamarac not averaging more than five inches diam-eter. We went inland on the east side of the river in an easterly direction. The first. Grove of sprace and balm of Gilead near Devillisli Lakenorth uf Long Lake. Party No. 5. it^- Jt ^t^^-~; : ^^^, 4 ^^»> -^ 7^. .:.^> ^^^ •^ • ^^ 1 -yg i ^^ 4 li%^ 1 .\ ,. ^Kf« »% fc- ?^Sii^fe- -^ 1 1 Spruce and jack pine, Devilfish River, about 40 miles from L)ngLake House. Good timber in this district. Party No. p.
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