FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 4O3 



The cost of transportation of manufactured lumber by rail from Beaver River station is clearly 

 established in the evidence. 



MR. H. D. CARTER, the Freight Agent of the Mohawk and Malonc Railroad, and Edward M. 

 Burns, claimant's General Manager, testified that the nearest lumber market would be Albany, and 

 that the rate upon manufacturedlumber from Beaver River station to Albany is $1.60 per thousand feet, 

 and to Watertown would be $1.75 per thousand feet ; that the claimant Webb pays at the rate of $1.60 

 per thousand feet in shipping manufactured lumber from Beaver River station ; that Webb would be 

 treated just as any other shipper ; and that he pays the same as other shippers. It is to be noticed 

 that the railroad of the Mohawk and Malone Railroad Company has been leased to and is now being 

 operated by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, and that the claimant Webb 

 is not connected with the management of the N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. Company. His witnesses in 

 this proceeding, even in going over the road, have to pay fare, as was brought out upon cross-ex- 

 amination by the learned Attorney-General. 



We have already seen that to float this same product to market by water would cost not over $1 

 per thousand. Here is a difference of sixty cents per thousand feet in the cost of transportation, or 

 of $1.80 per acre, assuming a cut of 3,000 feet per acre, which makes the additional cost of transporta- 

 tion by rail when shipping the manufactured product, $1 18,504.80, which does not include the $85,000 

 cost of the mill and branch tracks, nor does it include the additional lighterage testified to by Mr. 

 Kessler of forty cents per thousand feet. 



Is it any wonder that the claim is large, when the bare cost of the mill and branch tracks to the 

 railroad would amount to $85,000, and the additional freight rates would amount to $118,504.80? 

 And all this on the assumption that the tract is all feasible to lumber by rail, as the State has left it, 

 which as we shall see is not the case. 



(4. ) Marketing pnlp wood by rail as compared with marketing it by water. 



To market the pulj) wood by rail instead of by water, makes a difference at the least calculation 

 of $5 an acre in value of claimant's land, or upon the entire tract $529,180. 



DR. FRANKLIN E. ROBINSON, who has a pulp mill at Carthage, testifies that he tried to get 

 pulp wood sent to his mill by rail, and that the freight rate was so great that he could not get it there 

 at the price the pulp wood was worth ; that the present winter he attempted to buy pulp wood at 

 Lowville, but that the rates were such that he could not, and that two and one-half or three years ago 

 he tried to get some over the Carthage and Adirondack Road ; that the rate was $1 a cord, making it 

 cost $6 a cord at Carthage, and that he could buy and float it to market for $5. He floats his pulp 

 wood from the adjoining township in Brown's Tract. 



E. B. STERLING, of the Ontario Paper Mill, at Watertown, testified that at one time his mill 

 was supplied with pulp wood shipped out over the Mohawk and Malone Railroad from Otter Lake, 

 and that the freight rate paid was $2.70 a cord, and that his firm gave it up. 



MR. H. D. CARTER, the freight agent of the Mohawk and Malone Railroad Company, testified 

 that the rate for a shipper at Beaver River station would be the same as for one shipping at Otter 

 Lake, which would make a rate to Watertown of $2.70 a cord. 



MR. JAMES P. LEWIS, a pulp manufacturer at Beaver Falls and one of the State Commissioners 

 having charge of the dam at Stillwater, testified that with the experience that he has had in driving 

 timber on the Beaver River, that the claimant's pulp wood could be floated to market at about seventy- 

 five cents a cord. 



Is it any wonder the claim is large when claimant's pulp wood could have been taken to market 

 by water at seventy-five cents a cord, and to take it to market by rail costs $2.70 a cord? And it 

 is to be borne in mind that these 65,836 acres of claimant's will produce on the average at least five 

 cords of pulp wood per acre. 



Upon this subject the most favorable evidence for the State is that given by Dr. Robinson, where 

 he stated that it cost him $i a cord more to get his pulp wood in by rail than it does by water ; and 

 it is to be borne in mind that pulp wood delivered by water is more valuable than when delivered by 

 rail, for the reason, as testified by Hon. G. H. P. Gould, that it can be ground one-third faster. 



