Lot 16. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Barren land 
     
     defined. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The cost of 
     
     clearing. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Lot 7. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Barren defined. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A lumberman 's 
     
     viewpoint. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Barren land 
     
     defined. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Barren land 
     
     defined. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Lumber almost 
     
     all taken off. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Putting a 
     
     value on land. 
     
    
   
   
    
     fir and ash are the woods which grow on it. There is no doubt that a great deal of the 
     
     land is soft now, and therefore utterly valueless, but in time when the adjoining land 
     
     is cleared it will become valuable. Some of the unleased land on Lot 16 is very 
     
     indifferent, and some is tolerably good. Some of that which is not good is known as 
     
     barrens, and has almost nothing on it but a few bushes and some small spruce. It is 
     
     not capable of cultivation at present, but I have no doubt that it will be in time. 
     
    

    
     Cross—examined: | chained all that line between Lots 9 and 10. There are two or three 
     
     little hills of hardwood there that I call good. I do not know that there would be five 
     
     or six hundred acres. The rest of the land there is what I call indifferent. The land 
     
     is barren at the back of Felix McKinnon’s. I would call that land barren on which 
     
     there is only small spruce as big as your wrist. All the land in that particular place is 
     
     of very indifferent description. Perhaps there are one or two thousand acres. There 
     
     is a strip of good land near Lot 6. The cost of clearing land is about £3 an acre. 
     
     It costs from twenty to thirty shillings an acre for cutting down—a few shillings for 
     
     burning up, and as much more for clearing up. £5 would not clear and stump an acre 
     
     of green land to do at once. When I said E3 I did not include the cost of the 
     
     stumping. [pp. 135-37] 
     
    
   
   
    
     Stewart Estate [66,727 acres on Lots 7, 10, 12, 27, 30, 46, and 47]. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Amos McWil/Iams, Lot 7 : 
     
    

    
     Some parts of Lot 7 are not bad, others are worthless. The Lot is settled along the 
     
     shore and the O’Leary road. The barren extends back about 100 chains, and I might 
     
     say that it is worthless. The barren falls away to the eastward, and then continues 
     
     about 60 chains. There is a small neck of good land, and then it falls into barrens 
     
     again. Then there is some lumber land, and that brings you to the rear line that 
     
     divides Lot 7 from Lots 5 and 4. There would be well on to 1000 acres of what I 
     
     would call poor or inferior land, that is on the part that l have been describing. What 
     
     I have called barren has nothing on it. There are I think between 600 and 700 acres 
     
     of that. It is burnt. The front is burnt up, and then there is a small strain of ash, and 
     
     then you get into the burnt barrens again. With the burnt barrens and the inferior land 
     
     there are about 1000 acres. This includes inferior land but with lumber on it. 
     
     Cross-examined: l have been over the land looking for timber. l have had a permit 
     
     sometimes, and sometimes a roving commission, and when I got a stick I told them. 
     
     If the stick suited me I cut it, and told them of it. Of late years | always did so, but 
     
     I will not swear that before 1860 | always told. It would not be stealing. To take 
     
     money would be stealing. i believe many did more than I did. I do not know how 
     
     Stewart could lose what he never had. The proprietor’s land is public property to 
     
     us. I cannot tell exactly how much I paid Stewart. I call the burnt land barren. If 
     
     there had been hardwood upon it and it had been burnt off, I would not call it barren. 
     
     That which has shrubbery upon it and has been burnt I call barren. [pp. 189-901 
     
    
   
   
    
     John Cocheran, Lot 7 : 
     
    

    
     There is barren land upon the Lot. I should say that between barren land and 
     
     swamps there are from 1000 to 2000 acres. I mean by barren land that which is 
     
     wholly barren, or where low spruce bushes grow. In the spring it is wet, and it is 
     
     almost impossible to travel on it. It is not fit for raising crops. There is some 
     
     [wilderness land] upon which there is a larger growth of wood, such as fence poles 
     
     and scantling, but still it is low land. the lumber is the most that is of any use 
     
     about it, and that is almost all taken off. With the lumber off 1 would not take it at 
     
     any price. 
     
    

    
     Cross-examined: l have wilderness land upon my farm. There is very little hard 
     
     wood upon it. Some of the wood land is like these barrens. [pp. 192-93] 
     
    
   
   
    
     Peter Doyle, Lot 7 : 
     
    

    
     I think there are about 2,000 acres of what we call barren and swampy land. Half of 
     
     this would be of no value, and the other half would be worth about 60 cents. The 
     
     lumber has been pretty much taken off, and it is, therefore, not so valuable. A fair 
     
     price for the landlord’s interest in the vacant hardwood land would be 80 cents, and 
     
    
   
   
    
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