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years on this same work enabling him to collate the figures with 



accuracy. 



FORESTS AS A SUMMER RESORT. 



The annual Supply Bill passed by the Legislature of 1903 con- 

 tained the following item : 



" For the expense of collecting and publishing statistics and other 

 information relating to amount of capital invested, number of persons 

 employed, wages paid, and volume of business done at the summer 

 resorts in the counties containing the Forest Preserve and public 

 parks of the State, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much 

 thereof as is necessary." 



It was further provided in the act that the work necessary in secur- 

 ing and publishing this information should be done by your Commis- 

 sion. During the summer a list was made of the 3,526 hotels and 

 boarding houses in the Adirondacks, Catskills, and at the Thousand 

 Islands. A circular letter was mailed to each proprietor explaining 

 the object of the Commission in thus addressing him, and with the 

 circular was sent an information blank which he was asked to fill in 

 with the desired statistics. The forms used for this purpose read as 



follows : 



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