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Nne York, New York wan originally covered with 

 forest*, composed, in the Adirondack-, of white pine, 

 spruce, and hemlock, and in other part- <>f the state, of 

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 turiex which have elapsed since the commencement of 

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 tion. an<l. \. |'t in the Adirondaclu, the merchantable 

 timU'r has in great part been destroyed. In these moun- 

 tains the pine has been largely culled, .so that but little 

 of that -[* ies remain-. :unl lumbermen are now actively 

 at work on the spruce and hemlock. 



The wooded area of the state i- estimated at IN.TINI 

 square mile*), or 39 per cent of the area of the state. 

 Thin area is. of course, much greater than that occupied 

 l>\ merchantable timl>er. 



The earlie-t estimate* of the stand of timber are those 

 of Sargent and are routined to the Adirondack region. 

 Hi- figures gave this region, in 1880, a stand of only 

 :'.L'O million feet of white pin,-. 5,000 million feet of 

 -pnice. :',.INI million feet of hemlock, and *5.4O< million 

 feet of hard wood. In 1896 Professor Fernow esti- 

 mated a total stand of conifers of 5.000 million feet in 

 the state. All the above figures are plainly much too 

 small. The state possesses lands in tin- Adirondack 

 region having a total area of 1,825,851 acres. Outside 

 of these tract- then- were ron-idcrable bodies of timber 

 owned by lumbermen. As shown below, the amount of 

 white pine reported as owned by lumber men was 

 nearly as great, after twenty years' cutting, as was esti- 

 mated by Sargent, and the amount of spruce was nearlv 

 half that estimated. 



The Ad in mi Lick region, or Park, as it is known, is an 

 area comprising 3,22tf,144 acres, or 5,041 square mile-, 

 including the mountainous portion of the region. Of 

 this area, 1.HM.414 acres are owned by the state. 

 705/.M4 acres are held as private reserves by individu- 

 al- or orptni/ation-. and the remainder, 1,356,810 acres, 

 by individuals or companies for other purposes. These 



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Forest lands include those covered with virgin for- 

 est and those lumbered for pine or spruce only, many 

 years ago, and which still contain valuable coniferous 

 timber. Lumbered lands an- those from which the 

 coniferous timber ban been removed, leaving little ex- 

 cept hard woods. Assuming that the foroHt lands con- 

 tain an average stand of 3,000 feet |>er acre. it appears 

 that t hi- region contains three and a half billion feet of 

 coniferous timber. Of this amount, about two and one- 

 tenth billions were state and private preserves. In the 

 Adirondack region there in held by lumliermen aNuit 

 an equal amount, making a total stand accounted for of 

 4,200 million feet of coniferous timber. How much 

 more there may be unaccounted for is. of rour-e. 

 unknown. The state |M>s*e*se also a small preserve in 

 the ( 'atskills. comprising *:i,33i acrvs. 



The value of the lumber product of New York shows 

 violent fluctuations at different times, so that it is unsafe 

 to conclude, from the slight reduction in the value in 

 1900 an compared with that in 1H90, that the lumber 

 industry has pawed its maximum. In 1850 it was the 

 leading state in t hi- industry; in I860 it had been passed 

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