Report of the Forestry Commission of New HampshireEdward N. Pearson, 1894 |
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abundant Aggregates altitude American amount annual Average number Total balsam fir bark Belknap Carroll Belknap county birch black spruce Boston CENSUS CENSUS YEAR ENDING cent Cheshire Concord conifers Connecticut valley Coös county Crawford Crawford Notch cubic feet DETAILED STATEMENT.-LUMBER MILLS ENDING MAY 31 feet high Females above 15 fibre forest areas forest cover forest lands forest preserve forest products forestry commission fuel Grafton Grafton county growing Hillsborough length of merchantable Live assets logs lumberman Males above 16 manufacture maple Massachusetts merchantable lumber Merrimack valley methods of lumbering MILLS AND SAW-MILLS Mount Washington Notch Number of establishments number Total wages Number Wages old growth operations owners pine plant present pulp mills Quantity 1,000 feet river Rockingham Rockingham county sixty small trees soil species Strafford Sullivan thousand feet timber lands Total number towns tract wages Females White Mountain region wood and timber wood pulp Yellow Birch
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Страница 51 - The nuts are readily sold at from two to four dollars per bushel, and bring a considerable revenue to some of the farmers of the lower Merrimack. The wood is considered the standard fuel, and first class for carriage-work and tool handles of various kinds. It should be largely planted, and the work not left wholly for the squirrels to do, as is now the case. Carya porcina, Nutt. Pig Walnut or White Hickory. A much smaller tree than the preceding, seldom being more than eighteen or twenty inches in...
Страница 15 - PRINTED BY REPUBLICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION, CONCORD, NH REPORT. To his Excellency the Governor and the Honorable Council : In compliance with the law, the New Hampshire Forestry Commission respectfully submits the following report for the year 1894 : Further experience confirms the impression expressed in our last report, that a widespread misapprehension in respect to the powers and duties of this commission exists both within and without the state. This makes it necessary again to call attention to...
Страница 43 - OF COMMERCIAL VALUE, THE SHRUBS WHICH FORMED so LARGE A PART OF MR. FLINT'S ORIGINAL LIST BEING ELIMINATED FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PUBLICATION. THE TREES AND SHRUBS COMPOSING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS. THEIR DISTRIBUTION, RELATIVE ABUNDANCE, AND UTILITY. BY WM. F. FLINT, BS, WINCHESTER, NH Originally a dense forest covered our state. There were no ''parks" as in the Rocky Mountain" region, or "oak openings" and grassy plains as in the valley of the Mississippi ; but with the exception of a few sedgy...
Страница 142 - SEC. 4. Whenever any person or persons shall supply the necessary funds therefor, so that no cost or expense shall accrue to the state, the forestry commission is hereby authorized to buy any tract of land and devote the same to the purposes of a public park. If they cannot agree with the owners thereof as to the price, they may condemn the same under the powers of eminent domain, and the value shall be determined as in the case of lands taken for highways, with the same rights of appeal and jury...
Страница 141 - They shall also hold meetings from time to time in different parts of the state for the discussion of forestry subjects and make an annual report to the governor and council, embracing such suggestions as to the commission seem important, fifteen hundred copies of which shall be printed by the state.
Страница 142 - If any person shall kindle a fire by the use of firearms, or by any other means, on land not his own, he shall be fined not exceeding ten dollars ; and if such fire spreads and does any damage to the property of others, he shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding three years.
Страница 142 - SECTION 4. Whenever any person or persons shall supply the necessary funds therefor, so that no cost or expense shall accrue to the State, the forestry commission is hereby authorized to buy any tract of land and devote the same to the purposes of a public park. If they cannot agree with the owners thereof as to the price, they may condemn the same under the powers of eminent domain, and the value shall be determined as in case of lands taken for highways, with the same rights of appeal and jury...
Страница 141 - Democrats, who shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice of the council, for their special fitness for service on this commission, and be classified in such manner that the office of one shall become vacant each year. One of said commissioners shall be elected by his associates secretary of the commission, and receive a salary of one thousand dollars per annum. The other members shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be paid their necessary expenses incurred in the...
Страница 47 - Curled maple," the variety with wavy grain, is derived from this species. It is of rapid growth, has a height of from forty to sixty feet, and, owing to the brilliant colors of the foliage in autumn, and the red flowers in spring, is the most notable deciduous tree in our forests. Acer dasycarpum, Ehrh. White, Soft, or River Maple. A tree sometimes sixty or seventy feet in height, and four or five feet in diameter, although usually not more than forty or fifty feet in height, with a diameter of twelve...
Страница 50 - It is a very heavy feeder, and consequently of rapid growth, and its ashes are said to yield more potash than those of other trees. Juglans cinerea, L. Oilnut or Butternut. A very valuable tree, both for its timber and nuts. When grown in the forest, it is from two to three feet in diameter and sixty feet high, but in open land develops a short trunk, and heavy, wide-spreading top. It prefers the alluvial soil of the river valleys, or fertile, moist hillsides, and is common throughout the Connecticut...