TEKONSHA-Has 1,165 acres of hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; 1,900 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 1,200 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes. CASS COUNTY Has fifteen organized townships, consisting of twelve full and four fractional surveyed towns; 28,468 acres of hardwood; no pine; 200 acres of hemlock; 2,846 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 27,981 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes. CALVIN Has 1,500 acres of hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; 200 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 300 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes. HOWARD Has 2,200 acres of hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; no plains; 6,900 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes; about 2,000 acres of the hardwood is second-growth oak. JEFFERSON-Has 2,300 acres of hardwood, nearly all second-growth oak; no pine; no hemlock; no plains; 2,289 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes. LAGRANGE-Has 1,650 acres of hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; no plains; 1,160 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes; hardwood consists of beech, maple, oak, ash, basswood and whitewood. MARCELLUS Has 1,800 acres of hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; no plains; 800 acres of swamp land, part of which is covered with elm, black ash and bushes. MASON-Has one fractional surveyed town; 1,424 acres of hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; no plains; no swamp. MILTON Has one fractional surveyed town; 1,424 acres of hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; no plains; no swamp; most of the timber fit for sawing is gone from this township. NEWBERG-Has 3,000 acres of hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; no plains; 2,000 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes; the hardwood is mostly beech, maple, whitewood, black walnut, some basswood and ash; most of the good timber is gone. ONTWA-Has one fractional surveyed town; 1,400 acres of hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; no plains; 200 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes; the timber in this town is mostly second-growth oak, thick, thrifty and good. PENN-Has 2,720 acres of hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; 720 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 2,000 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes. POKAGON-Has 2,072 acres of hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; no plains; 1,154 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes; the hardwood consists of maple, beech, oak, elm, ash, basswood and some black walnut; not much saw timber. PORTER-Has one whole and one fractional surveyed town; 3,740 acres of hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; 1,000 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 300 acres of swamp partly cov ered with small timber and bushes; there are 250 acres of timber in this township that has never been culled. SILVER CREEK-Has 1,000 acres of hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; 200 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 5,000 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes; about half of the swamp land is covered with good black ash and swamp oak. VOLINIA-Has 1,030 acres of hardwood, which contains some of the. finest black walnut in the State; no pine; no hemlock; 726 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 1,378 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes; swamps are covered with tamarack. WAYNE Has 1,000 acres of hardwood; no pine; 200 acres of hemlock; no plains; 500 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes. CHARLEVOIX COUNTY Has sixteen organized townships, consisting of nine whole and thirteen fractional surveyed towns; 82,854 acres of hardwood; 2,835 acres of pine; 10,931 acres of hemlock; 38,308 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 19,220 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes. BAY-Has one fractional surveyed town; 5,198 acres of hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; no plains; 300 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes; valuable timber has all been cut except 354 acres; some hemlock interspersed among the hardwood. BOYNE VALLEY-Has 1,800 acres of hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; 4,000 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 3,000 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes; some hemlock interspersed among the hardwood. CHANDLER Has 14,000 acres of hardwood; no pine; 1,335 acres of hemlock; no plains; 3,840 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes; some pine is mixed with the hemlock and hardwood, and also with cedar in the swamp lands. CHANDLER NO. 2-Has five fractional surveyed towns; 480 acres of hardwood; 80 acres of pine; no hemlock; 7,434 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 700 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes; there are several small islands belonging to this township, covered with bushes. CHARLEVOIX-Has one fractional surveyed town; no hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; 1,000 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 300 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes. EVANGELINE Has one fractional surveyed town; 2,000 acres of hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; 1,000 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 300 acres of swamp partly cov ered with small timber and bushes; hemlock scattered through the hardwood. EVELINE-Has one whole and one fractional surveyed town; 500 acres of hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; 9,466 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 475 acres of swamp partly covered by small timber and bushes; there is no good timber for sawing left in the township. GALILEE Has one fractional surveyed town; 6,000 acres of hardwood; 200 acres of pine; 4,000 acres of hemlock; 200 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 400 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes. HAYES-Has one whole and one fractional surveyed town; 5,870 acres of hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; no plains; no swamp. HUDSON-Has 18,500 acres of hardwood, mostly maple with some beech, elm and basswood; no pine; no hemlock; no plains; 160 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes; some hemlock interspersed among the hardwood. MARION-Has one fractional surveyed town; 3,130 acres of hardwood; 30 acres of pine; 1,345 acres of hemlock; no plains; 475 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes. MELROSE Has 10,356 acres of hardwood, mostly maple with considerable ash, elm and beech; 557 acres of pine; 2,760 acres of hemlock; 2,862 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 2,920 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes. NORWOOD-Has one fractional surveyed town; 2,000 acres of hardwood, interspersed with hemlock; no pine; no hemlock; 1,000 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 5,000 acres of swamp covered with "cut over" cedar. PEAINE-Has one fractional surveyed town; 1,200 acres of hardwood; 10 acres of pine; 60 acres of hemlock; 4,000 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 900 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes; thousands of acres of pine and hardwood were destroyed by forest fires in 1895. SOUTH ARM-Has 1,500 acres of hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; 7,346 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 450 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes; hemlock is interspersed among hardwood, constituting about onesixth; pine and cedar mixed in swamps. WILSON-Has 10,320 acres of hardwood; 158 acres of pine; 1,434 acres of hemlock; no plains; no swamp; hemlock mixed with hardwood. CHEBOYGAN COUNTY Has fifteen organized townships, consisting of sixteen whole and twelve fractional surveyed towns; 138,155 acres of hardwood; 7,595 acres of pine; 33,446 acres of hemlock; 96,845 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 61.003 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes. BEAUGRAND-Has one fractional surveyed town; 500 acres of hardwood; no pine; 40 acres of hemlock; 8,000 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 3,500 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes. BENTON-Has five fractional surveyed towns; 1,000 acres of hardwood; 100 acres of pine; 4,000 acres of hemlock; 15,000 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 2,000 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes. FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT. BURT-Has 7,360 acres of hardwood; no pine; 7,106 acres of hemlock; ELLIS Has two surveyed towns; 23,000 acres of hardwood; 1,000 acres FOREST-Has two surveyed towns; 2,500 acres of hardwood; 2,000 acres GRANT-Has two whole and one fractional surveyed towns; 2,800 acres of hardwood; 540 acres of pine; 3,200 acres of hemlock; 5,000 acres of plains; partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 3,200 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes. HEBRON-Has 6,500 acres of hardwood; no pine; 500 acres of hemlock; 3,000 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 7,200 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes; one half of harwood is maple, the remainder is beech, birch, elm and basswood, forty per cent of swamp is covered with tamarack, poplar and cedar. INVERNESS-Has one whole and one fractional surveyed town; 2,500 acres of hardwood; no pine; 1,000 acres of hemlock; no plains; 500 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes; pine is mixed with hemlock, cedar, small spruce and tamarack. MACKINAW-Has one fractional surveyed town; 1,440 acres of hardwood; 355 acres of pine; 100 acres of hemlock; 2,105 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 1,703 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes; pine and hemlock interspersed with hardwood; timber is small but dense. MENTOR-Has 5,000 acres of hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; 5,000 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 200 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes; hardwood is interspersed with hemlock. MONROE-Has 13,193 acres of hardwood with hemlock interspersed; no NUNDA-Has two whole surveyed towns: 8,000 acres of hardwood; 2,000 WILMOT-Has 17,462 acres of hardwood, with hemlock interspersed; no pine; no hemlock; no plains; 5,000 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes; swamps mostly covered with spruce and cedar. CHIPPEWA COUNTY Has twelve organized townships consisting of twenty-one whole and forty-six fractional surveyed towns; 254,787 acres of hardwood; 69,940 acres of pine; 119,570 acres of hemlock; 194,170 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 139,325 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes. BRUCE Has two fractional towns; 10,640 acres of hardwood; 1,680 acres of pine; 11,520 acres of hemlock; 10,350 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 5,980 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes; most of the valuable pine, oak, cedar and spruce have been cut; swamps are covered with whitewood, willow and tamarack. DAFTER-Has six fractional surveyed towns; no hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; 6,000 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 300 acres of swamp partly covered with small tim ber and bushes; the standing forest is estimated at about 85,000 acres, of which 79,000 acres is mixed hardwood and softwood, and 6,000 acres is bushes and scattering trees. DETOUR-Has four fractional surveyed towns; 10,640 acres of hardwood; 600 acres of pine; 5,000 acres of hemlock; 6,380 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 4,000 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes. DRUMMOND-Has ten fractional surveyed towns; 64,500 acres of hardwood; 1,900 acres of pine; 1,700 acres of hemlock; 1,300 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 2,000 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes. PICKFORD-Has three whole and one fractional surveyed towns; 12,000 acres of hardwood; 1,280 acres of pine; 9,340 acres of hemlock; 8,620 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; no swamp. RABER-Has two whole and two fractional surveyed towns; 29,267 acres of hardwood; 2,620 acres of pine; 15,890 acres of hemlock; no plains; 12,750 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes. RUDYARD-Has two whole and two fractional surveyed towns; 2,000 acres of hardwood; no pine; no hemlock; 8,000 acres of plains partly cov ered with bushes and scattering trees; no swamp; this township has been burned over, but is now grown up with willow, black alder, poplar, etc. SAULT STE. MARIE-Has two whole and three fractional surveyed towns, 12,000 acres of hardwood; 10,000 acres of pine; 20,000 acres of hemlock; 35,000 acres of plains partly covered with bushes and scattering trees; 40,000 acres of swamp partly covered with small timber and bushes. |