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logs being cut in lengths of 4 feet. In contracting for their stock some of t'.ie 

 pulpmills bought b\- t!ie standard or market log, which is 13 feet long and 19 inches 

 in diameter at the small end. The buyers generally estimate three markets as 

 equivalent to a cord, and pay the same price for either. As three standard logs 

 contain 549 feet by Doyle's rule (3 X 183 = 549), the 420,108 cords reported by the 

 pulpmills were converted into feet accordingly. 



The returns from the pulpmills, though correct, do not ahvaj-s indicate the 

 capacity of a mill or amount of its product, for some of them are stocked in part, or 

 wholly, from Canada. In 1900 the pulpmills of this State received 151,157 cords — 

 equivalent to 82,985,193 feet board measure — from the Canadian Provinces. 



It is interesting to note that the amount of spruce used in making paper has 

 increased annuall}', until it now exceeds greatly the amount cut for lumber. In 

 1890 the spruce used by the pulpmills was reported at 51,966,262 feet. Last year 

 the amount reached 230,649,292 feet. 



ProdQCt of tl)e Catsl^ill Forests. 



Hitherto, in my annual reports, the output of the Catskill sawmills has not been 

 included, as it was supposed that, owing to their small size and limited product, the 

 information would have no special value. In the annual report of the Poorest Com- 

 mission for 1885 some statistics were submitted showing the number of mills in 

 each of the Forest Preserve counties,* from which it appeared that there were 90 

 sawmills in Ulster and Sullivan, of which 72 used water power and 18 used steam. 

 But the water mills, which were all small affairs, were shut dowr. most of the year, 

 and so their product attracted little attention. 



As more definite information regarding the forest products of that region 

 seemed desirable, Mr. A. B. .Strough, a special agent of this Commission, was 

 instructed to make an exhaustive examination of the entire district embraced in the 

 four Catskill counties, and collect all the statistics possible relating to the industries 

 which are dependent on the forest for their supply of raw material. P'rom the 

 written statements furnished by the various mill owners, it appears that the lumber 

 jjroduct of the Catskill forests for the year 1900 is as follows: 



*.'\t that time Delaware County had not been included in the law delining the location of the 

 Forest Preserve. 



