REPOBT OF FOBEST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 11 



to the State in the same deed ; but one: does not have to go back 

 very far in the abstract of title before there is a divergence in the 

 line of ownership. Your attention is thus called to the large num- 

 ber of separate properties in order to give a better idea of the 

 work necessary in keeping a proper record of all this real estate 

 and protecting the various titles. 



ADIRONDACK PARK. 



The area of the Adirondack Park, of which the State owns only 

 a part, is 3,313,564 acres. So many persons are apt to think or 

 speak of the Adirondack Park and the Forest Preserve as being 

 the same, it may be well to state that, of the 1,527,199.94 acres in 

 the Forest Preserve lands of Northern New York, 1,399,365.84 

 acres are situated within the Park, and the remainder, 127,834.10 

 acres are outside the boundary or " blue line " as shown on the last 

 edition of the Adirondack map issued by your Commission. 



The actual acreage of the Adirondack Park is greater than the 

 area indicated by the figures given, how much so it is difficult 

 to say. The statement of area, as reported here is based on the 

 assessed acreage of each lot, which as we have learned by experi- 

 ence is generally less than the real acreage when determind by a 

 careful survey. Most of the lands in the Adirondacks are bought 

 and sold by the assessed acreage the old conveyances specifying 

 the number of acres and always qualifying the statement with the 

 words " more or less." Whenever we have found it necessary to 

 make a careful survey and chaining of a lot, parcel or township, 

 we have discovered almost invariably that there was a surplus, 

 that the lot " overrun " the acreage called for in the various deeds, 

 and on which the assessment is made. 



This condition is largely due to the loose methods of work in 

 use by the old surveyors who made the original allotments. They 

 used a drag chain, and ran the lines as fast as they could, some of 



