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REPORT (JF THE COMMISSIONERS OF 



in the State, as the shipment of deer from the Adirondack region to tlie total number 

 killed in New York. 



Under the law in Maine, requiring that guides shall be licensed, 1,316 men 

 registered as guides since July I, when the law went into effect. From the annual 

 report the following facts also appear : The total number of days' employment 

 furnished these guides during the open season, aggregated 51,918 ; at $3 per day, the 

 usual price, this amounted to $155,754 paid in wages to these men, while, in addition, 

 over $50,000 went to the taxidermists in that State. The number of residents guided 

 was 3,384; non-residents, 7,125. It was estimated that the non-residents who 

 employed guides expended within the State at least $2,000,000. 



The number of deer killed in Maine exceeds that of New York ; but more bear 

 were killed in the Adirondacks (to say nothing of the Catskills) than in Maine — the 

 bounties paid in the Adirondack counties showing that 349 deer were killed in one 

 year in Northern New York. It will be noted also, that in the State of Maine there 

 are 1,316 registered guides, while in the Adirondacks there were only 626, in 1893, as 

 indicated in the list published by the Superintendent of Forests, in the annual report 

 of the Forest Commission for 1893 — a full and complete list giving the post-office 

 address of each, and which was prepared with the assistance and co-operation of the 

 guides in each locality. 



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