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The City of DuBois

by

William C. Pentz

 

DuBois

Press of Gray Printing Co.

1932

 

 

Digitized and transcribed for the Clearfield County PA USGenWeb by

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The City of DuBois

APPENDIX

Page 194

 

 

Page 194 APPENDIX—Continued

FORESTS OF BRADY TOWNSHIP

     Your letter of the 6th instant reminded me that I owed you some information about the average amount of timber that grew on an acre of land in Brady Township. I have mislaid that letter, but am inclined to think I missed bringing it from York State.

     PINE. The popular name of trees known as the genus Pinus, of the order Coniferae, of which there are many kinds of species.

     WHITE PINE. Pinus Strabus, the principal pine that grew in this region, and furnished lumber of the most valuable kind. Its native "habitat" seemed to be through central and northern Pennsylvania, and through southern and central New York, to the Great Lakes. This species of Pine was a lofty tree, tall, straight, and hardy, and was remarkable for its uniformity in size for nearly its whole length, which rose to a height of one hundred and ten feet, or more.

     As to the average number of feet, board measure, that I grew on an acre of land, I submit the following, to wit:

     I may say here, that in my experience as a scaler of saw logs, and estimating of standing timber for more than forty years, the average number of board feet that grew on lands in Brady and adjoining townships, as well as all over this region, averaged for white pine, twenty thousand feet per acre, straight and sound scale.

     This estimate of the number of board feet on a tract of land was made as a whole while perhaps there would be seven acres on the tract, that would have but very little, if any pine thereon.


     Phillip Swoope, who cut the pine timber on the lands of A.M. McClure, near where Stanley Station is now, and I measured an acre on which I scaled ninety thousand board feet. Yet, the average for the whole tract was 19,780 feet per acre.

     George W. Nolder, who cut the pine timber on the Jacob Pentz farm, near the C. & M. Junction, and I measured an acre a short distance north of the Junction, on which I scaled 78,760. Yet the average for the estimated number of acres, was 18,500 board feet. (Note)

     Not long after I began scaling logs I became interested in finding a Pine tree that was here when Columbus discovered America. In the large number of trees that I counted the growths, I never found one. When I would find an extra large tree, the growths would be correspondingly large.

     The largest Pine tree, and the oldest one was on the waters of Stump. Creek, on lands of L. B. Carlisle, in Brady Township. This tree had three forks that started twenty-four feet from the stump. The diameter across stump, two and a half feet above the ground, was seventy-two inches. The two logs below the forks contained 2,578 and 2,383 feet respectively.
 

 

 

 

 

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