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COWS were set aside for shipment to the Adirondacks. As the animals were very 

 wild, considerable difficulty was experienced in driving them into the wagon vans 

 for transportation to the railway station, six miles distant. 



When the elk were safely on board the cars, they were left in charge of Game 

 Protectors Courtney and Winslow, who accompanied them to Raquette Lake, where 

 the animals arrived in good condition and none the worse for their journey. The car 

 containing them was run upon one of the railroad scows of the Raquette Lake 

 Transportation Company and towed to the Forked Lake Carry, where the elk were 

 turned loose into the woods. 



The general character and feeding grounds of the Adirondack forests are so dif- 

 ferent from the usual habitat of these animals that their introduction is largely a 

 matter of experiment. There have been no elk in the Adirondacks within the 

 memory of any one now living; but, so far as heard from, these elk seem to be 

 doing well, and will probably increase in number. 



Unfortunately, the cows resemble the deer greatly in their general appearance, 

 and so may be killed by hunters who mistake them for does. True, they differ in 

 color and are of a much greater size ; but these differences would not be apparent 

 when the animal was standing breast high in the underbrush. 



About one year ago an association of sportsmicn was formed in the city of New 

 York for the restoration of moose to the Adirondack forests, its organization 

 being due largely to the efforts of Mr. H. V. Radford, editor of Woods and Waters. 

 The association, in furtherance of its objects, prepared a bill which was introduced 

 in the Legislature by Hon. Frank J. Price. This bill, which became a law, carried 

 an appropriation of §5,000 for the purchase of moose, and provided for their protec 

 t'on by a penalty of $250 fine, and imprisonment of not less than three months nor 

 more than one year. The expenditure of this appropriation having been entrusted 

 to the Forest, Fish and Game Commission, contracts have been entered into with 

 persons who deal in this kind of game to furnish moose at prices varying from $100 

 \o $150, delivered free of freight at such railway stations within the Adirondack 

 region as the Commission may designate. 



lyitigations and \^h\^ $>mX% 



The most important litigation of the year was the suit of Benton Turner against 

 the State, which was tried before the Court of Claims. When the State bought the 

 lands in Township 21, Franklin county, situated near the north shore of the Lower 



