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By the 1820s, timber was generating an income of £4,000 to £5,000 per annum, though the upkeep of dams, locks, sluices, dykes, channels, and heavy horses to haul the logs to the river was costly. In 1839, John Grigor reported that the old pine forest of Rothiemurchus was 'much exhausted'. In 1853, twelve poor families from Rothiemurchus emigrated to Tasmania on the Sir Allan McNab. Rothiemurchus was converted into a deer forest in 1859.

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