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tomobile there have come some good 

 roads. But here again, as in the case 

 of the railroads, the heart of the Adir- 

 ondacks cannot easily be reached. 



<<A T FIRST only a few persons 

 came in for vacations. These 

 usually came during the hunting sea- 

 son. The next year they would re- 

 turn with friends. In this way the fame 

 of the Adirondacks spread abroad. 

 Hunting led to fishing, so the sports- 

 men not only came in the fall but also 

 in the spring. Some of those who came 

 in the spring stayed later and found 

 that the summer climate was better 

 than the 'lumber-jack' painted it. Then 

 came summer hotels. 



"These summer hotels are now to be 

 found in nearly every place that is easy 

 to get at. And since this mountain re- 

 gion is also a lake region, the ways of 

 getting about were simplified. Now, 

 in nearly every place where there are 

 boats there are also guides, whose 

 rates are from four to seven dollars a 

 day. At first these rates seem high, 

 but they are truly not so. Where in 

 any city could one get a man who 

 would paddle a canoe — provided there 

 were places for a canoe to go — and 

 paddle it for thirty miles, carrying it 

 and all the baggage too over portages, 

 make the camp and cook the meals, find 

 fish and game, and keep one from being 

 drowned or shot for a deer, all for 

 seven dollars a day? 



ii'TTHE lumber industry is still a big 

 one. The old method of lumber- 

 ing had to have the winter's snow. 

 Roads were made to tap the heart of 

 the best timbered country, and followed 

 the lower and more level ground. 



These roads were as free from bumps 

 as city asphalt streets. When the first 

 freeze came they were sprinkled with 

 water ; after several sprinklings and 

 freezes they were covered with a layer 

 of ice some inches thick. Heavy loads 

 could now be hauled on sledges over 

 these ice-ways with very little trouble. 

 Even now the traces of these old roads 

 may still be seen, leading from the 

 heart of a pine section to some water 

 course. 



^^IX/^^^ the sawlogs had been cut 

 and hauled to the banks of a 

 stream they were piled at the edge of 

 the water, or on the ice, with the log 

 ends easy to get at. The marking was 

 simple. On the end of a sledge hammer 

 were raised letters, these letters being 

 the 'trade mark' of the company doing 

 the lumbering. When a log was to be 

 marked its end was hit with the ham- 

 mer and the dents left were the re- 

 verse of the letters on the hammer. By 

 this it will be seen that the letters had 

 to be made wrong-way-'round, or mir- 

 ror-wise. After the logs had been 

 driven down stream on the spring 

 freshet to the mills below, every owner 

 was able to claim his own logs. 



"Now there are very few of these 

 spring drives. The logging railroad 

 has taken the place of the river, al- 

 though horses are still used in skidding 

 the logs to the rollways. At the pres- 

 ent rate, unless some measures are 

 taken to start new trees the supply in 

 the Adirondacks will run short in 

 something like twenty years. It takes 

 time for trees to grow. They are not 

 good for paper until they are twenty or 



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