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[[underlined]] Elk River to Jamestown
July 13, [[/underlined]], Took N P train north at 12:15 PM.  No change noted to Little Falls, here flat cold [[?out]] country begins and extends to Randall and Cushing & Staples, - covered with mainly Canadian zone types in great preponderance.  Pinus strobis is abundant and old big stumps show it. has been more abundant in the past.  Pinus resinosa is common along in places.  A dense growth of aspen, white birch, alder and willow covers the flat country with lots or tamarack and spruce in the [[?]]. Even the ridges farther along are covered on both slopes with white pine aspen 8 birch.

  Little Falls is a great lumber town with good waterfalls for power.  The whole country has been lumbered over & the stumps of great forests remain.

  To Staples the country is the same & mainly Canadian zone.  At Verndale it shows more transition & at Wadena is about half & half, with dry ridges covered with pin oak & maple, some fairly good
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