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ami thou would be found n very old,
very lnrgc Whlto Pine. TIicbo trees
nttnlnod enormous dimenHloiiH. 1
bavo Heen boiiio fully nix feet in diam
eter, mid unbrnnclied till sixty or eighty
foot from tho ground. They woro
looltcd upon as the most valuablo of
all the IMuob within these forests.
"One spring I was asked to Join u
small party to go Into tho hitherto un
trodden forest of the wouthorn ponln
Bula, in order to do a certain piece of
Work. Tho party consisted of tho
Bosh, tho Cook, the Expert, and an In
dian who holped us to carry our be
longings. Wo set out on foot and trav
eled until wo were tired, when wo
camped. Tho next day wo continued
our Journey until wo roached tho part
of the stato where we wlBhed to do our
work.
"Wo had boon employed by a largo
land company owning tracts of Pino
land In several of tho central counties
of the southern peninsula of Michigan.
We were asked to determine tho
these areas, and to determino their
value, standing and also after being
cut and taken to the mills. We were
also required to report in like manner
on the Hardwood forests that wo
found, being sure to include valuations
as before. Wo woro to report upon
the logging possibilities of the various
foroBt areas, bo that It was necessary
for us to investigate tho streamB, and
to report upon the genoral Biirface
conditions of tho areas covered with
IMuob. Wo were then to report also
upon tho value of tho land for agri
cultural or other purposes after tho
from ono quartnr post to another-
across a section of dense timber and
found that I varied from tho surveyor's
measurements by not more than a
very fow foot. For guiding us In di
rection wo used good pockol com-
passes, and found that by a little prac
tice we could maintain a lino with a
fair degroo of accuracy. Each man
was supplied with a notebook, small
enough to slip into his pocket, and in
tnoso notebooks tho records wero
made Immediately aftor each observa
tion. At tho close of tho day when we
gathered in camp onclnnnmnndofoot?
Ings and summaries of his day's workT
no matter to bo included in the final
report being left to mere memory.
"It may be well to Indicate exactly
how tho work was dono in tho foreBt.
Suppose that tiio little tract of forest
to bo survoyod waa an eighty acre
tract. Tho cruiser would pace off
twenty rods from one corner of tho
eighty, and would then proceed to sur
vey tho wholo eighty by traveling
parallel with ono of tho long sides,
keeping twenty rodB away from the
lino. This was readily dono by means
of tho compass and by pacing. Wo
-were Instructed -by the Dobs--to stop
at the end of each twenty rods and
make notes In our notebooks as to tho
amount nnd quality of tho timber on-
both sldos of tho track covered since
tho last noteB were made. I found that
after a llttlo practice I could do three
things at onco. 1 could keep account
of my pacing with one portion of my
mind; with another 1 could count up
tho large trees on my left hand
and keep a running account of the
number of feet that those trees repre
sented, while a third portion of my
mind kept a similar account of the
trees on my right hand. In nearly all
removal of the forests.
places It was comparatively easy to
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nmoncflt ourselves.
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"In carrying out those instructions
wo determined to carry our own camp
outfit, and not to depend upon the ex
tremely Isolated Indian or white men's
cabins lioro and there. This meant
that as we moved from camp to camp
we were heavily loaded with our
outfit. It meant also that we did not
take more than what three or four
men could carry, and as a matter of
fact there were not four of us all of
tho -time but only threo.-the Indlnn
giving out early, and concluding to go
.homo, .leaving us to do all-the work- -
"Our day's work was about as fol
lows for oacli day : Each man was'sup.
plied with tho surveyor's notes, i.e.,
copies from tho original notes made
by tho government surveyors as thoy
surveyed out tho land. And I may re
mark that we found that many of these
original notes were very crudo and
unreliablp, and yet we had to make
use of them to locate tho tracts of
laud that we wero to survey. In sur
veying tho land ourselves wo divided
every area into forty acre, and eighty
aero tracts. This we did before- we
separated in the morning. For meas
uring distances wo practiced "pacing,"
and each man had been practiced
enough bo that ho could pace a mile
with a fair dogroo of accuracy, nnd
could keep this up oven through tho
dense forest and over rough land. I
remember that many a tlmo I paced
seo from the track passed o er by the
observor twenty rods to tho right and
twenty rods to the left, so that whon
tho eighty had been gone over in that
way the kind of timber and its amount
were reported upon with a great deal
of accuracy. Sometimes it happened
thaf two of us through accident or oth
erwise covered the same tract of tim
ber, and it was very interesting to no
tice that our measurements wero prac
tically identical.
"After tho work had all been dono
on tho many areas which wo Investl
galed wn returned to our starting
".Mosquitoes were our greatest trou
ble. Ench man -surrounded his head
and neck and as much of his face as
he could with the best of mosquito net
ting, and yet tho tormentors managed
to work their way in, so that our faces
woro considerably swollen by tho time
we finished our cruising. Our hands
woro covered with mittens, and at
night we slept under mosquito netting,
and yet this did not .prevent the mo
squitoes from finding us.
"Excepting when we Jound water in
tli-vlcinti of Uie Arborvltae trees we
suffered most from lack of good water.
Occasionally we had to camp beside
a pool of water which was as brown
as coffee from the decayed leaves and
twigs which had fallen Into it, and jet
by boiling this before making It Into
coffee wo killed all the germs and none
of us suffered from this sourco.
"Wild animals were fairly abundant,
but they kept out of sight very largely.
Wo saw many signs, of bears, deeiv
wolves, and other animals, but they
"Indians were abundant at one point,
but most of our cruising was done out
side of the Indian reservation, and so
far away from it that they gave us no
trouble, and as I have said before, tho
one Indian that we hired did not stay
with us.
"This account of cruising is hero re
corded in order that foresters may bo
able to compare and contrast such
work as done half a eenturyago-with-slmllar
work as it is dono now."
point and in tho office of tho Boss
made our final report. In this I may
say that tho Cook did not join us, and
It was left to tho Boss and tho Expert
to mako this final report, and it turned
out that the Boss concluded that tho
Export could do tho work well enough
and It was turned over to him for final
preparation. This report included sta
tistical summaries and many quite de
tailed maps to show tho various dis
tributions of tho different kinds of
trees, including tho Hardwoods.
"A few points are of sufficient inter
est to he entorod further. Wo learned
how to pack our belongings" In bucIi
way that we could carry what wo had
on our backs and In our hands very
comfortablyi As I said before, our In
dian carrier concluded after a short
experience with us that we worked
him quite too "hard and he deserted
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