On Blackmore's positive assurance as a timberman that there was nothing in the pile of any value for lumber, even in the improbable contingency that a flood would ever carry it beyond the big drifts of Kinbasket Lake, I decided to make a bonfire of it.
"Down the Columbia"
Lewis R. Freeman
The farmer who owns a large forest tract should have some reliable and experienced timberman carefully inspect his timber and estimate the amount and value.
"The School Book of Forestry"
Charles Lathrop Pack