Lot 18.

Lot 20.

Timber burnt off.

Lot 28.

Poor land.

Lot 37.

62 acres of wilderness land.

the back which was hard wood land. [p.473] Miss Margaret Stewart's estate [3,235 acres on Lot 18].

John Camp/on, Lot 7 8 : Some of her land is very good, and some is very poor. The blueberry barrens cannot be called land at all. [p.457]

James Bernard, Lot 78 : As you go further south the land is poorer; and on the west side of the Dougal road is blueberry barrens. [p. 458]

Montgomery estate [1,362 acres on Lot 20].

James Smith, Lot 20 :

I am a tenant on 50 acres of land belonging to Mrs. Montgomery. Some of the land is pretty good and some is very poor. The hard wood land is good, but the soft wood land is inferior. About 15 acres of my farm was softwood and hemlock— mostly hemlock. All the timber was burned off it before I remember. Cross-examined: I call first quality land that which has grown black birch and maple. I do not know where there is a block of 1300 or 1400 acres of such land. There is a great deal in a wilderness state burned down, and you cannot tell what it was. On Lot 67 there is a lot of first quality land, but I do not know that the lot is better as a whole. I would call a block of 1000 acres at Springfield first quality. [p. 468]

The Dunscome estate of Henry Palmer [1,800 acres on Lot 28].

Donald McFarlane, Lot 28 :

A part of the estate is good, a part middling, and a part very bad. There is much less than one-third of the estate that is poor land. The poor land is wet with a growth of small stunted spruce and juniper. The land runs into a point known as Carleton Point. [p.523]

John D. Muttart, Lot 28 : | live on Mr. Palmer’s estate. l have a lease for 100 acres. l have also 50 acres at a rent of 2 shillings. [0f the 50 acres a third] is wet sand, and spruce land. [p. 525]

Douse estate [733 acres on Lot 31].

Henry C. Douse (landlord) :

There is a block of wilderness land of 62 acres. It is covered with lumber, scantling and hard wood. if I were to auction it to-morrow I consider that I could get £4 an acre for the wood alone. The land is about 8V2miles from town. I had a great many applications last fall to divide this block into plots and sell it at auction. Cross—examined: I sold wood there 10 years ago at 73. and 6d. a cord in the woods. It was cut into 7 foot lengths. Poles are sold at 105. a hundred. The wood on the Lot is mixed. [pp. 527-28]

John Douse (landlord) :

There is a large growth of hard and soft wood upon the 62 acres. There may have been some taken out of it.

Cross-examined: [The 62 acres] is on the Colville Road, I think. The railway runs through it. I believe that the wood on it is birch and beech. There is a good deal of fire wood, and a good deal of ship timber. [p. 529]

James P. Douse (landlord) : l was on the 62 acres last autumn. it is covered with a variety of wood of good

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