Lot 70.

Timber taken off.

Cedar land.

Cedar cut away.

Firewood scarce.

Lot 12.

Barren defined.

Timber exhausted.

60 cents for the spruce land, and nothing for the bad land. Cross-examined: [My farm] was nearly all fenced with cedar. [pp. 193-94]

Daniel McDonald, Lot 10 :

There are about 5000 acres occupied. Some of the unoccupied land is good and some very bad. I call land not fit for cultivation bad. About one third is represented as second quality, one third as third quality, and the other third is not fit for cultivation. At one time it was the most valuable part of the Lot for the cedar that was on it. It was valued at £3 an acre for the wood. When the wood is gone the land is of no use. Some of it was covered with cedar and some with juniper. That which was covered with spruce may come in for agriculture. That is second quality. Cross—examined: There is hard wood on it in some places. It is inaccessible at present. The hard wood when it was on the land was worth more than some of the land. The general run of the timber it may be is of no use to the tenant for he has to burn it to clear up the land. If there was any large birch on it that might make square timber that might be of value, but I don’t think there is any. The timber was a very great inducement to me to go upon Lot 10. [pp. 194-96]

Joseph Mooreshed, Lot 70 :

There are about 5000 acres leased, and the rest is vacant. The vacant land is second and third quality. I call the second quality land with a big growth of wood upon it-not barrens. There is about 500 acres vacant of the second quality. It is worth about 20 cts. an acre. There is some hard wood upon it. In general it is soft wood spruce and fir. There is some large wood, but it is pretty well culled. The timber has

been taken off of it. The balance of the Lot is worth nothing at all . It is swamps and barrens. [p. 196] Cross—examined: If the land was mussel—mudded and fenced with cedar it would be worth more. [p. 197]

James Gregg, Lot 10 :

There are two thirds of the northern half of the Lot not settled; it is partly barren, and spruce and soft wood land. There is some lumber on it that is of some value. If it were denuded of wood it would not be worth much. [pp. 197—198]

James Warburton (former proprietor of Lot 7 7, commenting on Lots 70 and 72) : So far as I am capable of judging, there are not more than 4,000 acres on Lot 10 that are fit for a man to live upon. There was a great deal of cedar land that was considered valuable, but it is very much out down. There is a great deal of land that is a mixture of cedar and spruce, that the people will not take. The cedar has been cut away. From the Tory Road to the Western Road it is a complete barren. There was valuable cedar land upon Lot 12 some years ago. I cannot say if it has been cut off or not.

Cross-examined: There is a great deal of land on Lot 12 that was formerly good timber land. On Lot 11 people have to go miles for their fire wood. It will be a drawback when the wood is all cut off. [pp. 198-99]

Albert Williams, Lot 12:

I think there are about 9000 acres vacant. It is pretty well in the middle of the Lot. There are blue-berries growing upon it. Some of this land is better than other parts. I think there are about 5000 acres of the barren land, or that part which grows blue-berries. There are two hundred acres of hard-wood land in one block

that is not leased or sold. There has been a good deal of timber but the ship-builders have exhausted it.

Cross—examined: There are only about 100 acres of hard wood land. The rest is soft

wood and swamp. There is very little cedar left. There are a good many cedar and alder swamps. [pp. 200-011

William McIntosh, Lot 72 :

There are no barrens at that end of the Lot, on the part that fronts the western road. There is some back from the road east. It is hard to tell how much barren land there

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