24 SEVENTH REPORT OF THE 



No classification has been made as yet of the 142,913 acres of Forest Preserve 

 lands in the Adirondacks which are situated outside the park line ; but this work 

 will be undertaken and completed during the coming year. 



The brief statistics given here, valuable as they are, give little idea of the amount 

 of field work and clerical labor involved in arriving at these figures. There were 

 8,331 separate parcels of State and private lands which were tabulated, one by one, 

 on the large, closely ruled sheets used in preparing and completing these records. 

 If each lot or parcel had belonged entirely to one class the labor would have been 

 comparatively easy. But a large proportion of the lots were of a mixed character, 

 and hence each of them had to be divided into separate areas corresponding to the 

 respective kinds of land embraced within its boundaries. 



Anneal ProdaCt. 



In connection with the foregoing statement showing the forest resources of the 

 State it may be interesting to note the yearly product obtained. The output of 

 sawed lumber, pulpwood, and other material for the past year cannot be given at 

 this date; for the collecting of the statistics relating to them cannot be undertaken 

 until the year has closed, after which considerable time and travel are necessary to 

 obtain and compile the information in proper form for publication. And so, as is 

 customar)- in our preliminary reports, we submit the statistics for the previous year 

 — 1900 — which ha\-e not been published as yet, the final report of the Commission 

 for that year being still in the hands of the printer. 



From the written reports received at this office from each sawmill and pulpmill 

 in the State, the logs and timber obtained in 1900 from the forests of Northern New 

 York amounted in the aggregate as follows : 



FT., B. M. 



Spruce (sawmills), ......... 166,614,856 



Spruce (pulijmills), --...--- 230,649,292 



Hemlock, 48,377,575 



fine, 54,948,590 



Hardwood, - 32,748,759 



'I'otal, 533,339,072 



Shingles, -....-...-- 32,734,000 

 Lath, - 56,840,550 



With few exceptions, the pulpmills in making their returns sent in their figures 

 expressed in cords, as their purchases of timber are made that wa)', most of their 



