372 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF 



To the Board of Fisheries, Game and Forests, Albany, N. V. 



Gentlemen : Your Committee on Forest Lands beg leave to submit the following 

 report upon lands offered for sale, viz. : 



On August 17, 1894, John Edmondson, of Johnsburg, N. Y., filed with the then 

 Forest Commission, an offer to sell 300 acres of land, in Township 29, Totten & 

 Crossfield Purchase, Warren county, at $1.50 per acre. 



On April 2, 1894, Gardner Winuey, of- Northville, N. Y., filed an offer with the 

 Forest Commission to sell 210 acres of land in Lot 16, north end of same, 

 situated north of the Sacandaga River, in Townships 10 and 29, Totten & Crossfield 

 Purchase, Hamilton county, at $1.50 per acre. 



On August 8, 1895, the Morgan Lumber Company, of Glens Falls, N. Y., filed 

 with this board an offer to sell about 15,000 acres, more or less, being Lots 13, 14, 

 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20, and certain Great Lots not subdivided, in Townships 10 and 

 29, Totten & Crossfield Purchase, Hamilton and Warren counties, at $1.50 per acre. 



On July 16-19, '895, your Committee, accompanied by Mr. McEchron of the 

 Morgan Lumber Company, and Colonel William F. Fox, the Engineer of the 

 Commission, made an examination of these lands, such as we were able to make by 

 driving over same on a traveled road which runs across the tract from east to west, 

 cutting the eastern portion, or so-called Great Lots, through the middle, and crossing 

 the northern part of the other lots offered for sale by the said lumber company. This 

 road also brought us in sight of the 300 acres lot and the 210 acres lot offered by 

 Edmondson and Winney, as pointed out to us by the engineer when on the ground. 



We also left the road, going on foot into the timber on one occasion to a distance 

 of perhaps three-fourths of a mile up an elevation to look at a sheet of water known 

 as " Cod Pond," and to get a general idea of how closely these lands had been 

 lumbered. The general character of this tract is hilly and rough, having but a small 

 percentage of arable land, and that very poor for agricultural purposes. 



The East Branch of the Sacandaga River crosses all but two of the lots offered 

 by the Morgan Lumber Company, and bounds the Winney lot on the South. The 

 Edmondson lot corners on the same stream. Quite a large creek, also, crosses the 

 southeasterly Great Lot and Lot 20 of the Morgan Lumber Company. 



The whole territory has been lumbered over some years ago, the hemlock, or 

 the best of it which was of suitable size, having been cut off, mostly for lumber for 

 shipment or local use, and for the bark. The spruce had also been cut for lumber. 

 The timber left is of the usual species growing in that section, mostly maple, beech 

 and birch, with small spruce, hemlock, and balsam. On some of the hills, or 

 mountains so-called, where it was impracticable to lumber, there is quite a growth of 

 large spruce left. 



