1902. 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



457 



more useful in the transportation of the 

 products of the forests and mines and 

 the development of the material re- 

 sources of the state, and for other bene- 

 ficial and lawful purposes. 



' ' To promote and encourage a proper 

 and practical sj'stem of forestrj^ and 

 unite in all reasonable and honest efforts 

 therefor. To discourage b}' education 

 and other proper means the removal of 

 timber from lands in such manner, and 

 to such extent, as will render such lands 

 useless for the further growth of timber, 

 and to encourage under safe and proper 

 limitations the removal of grown timber 

 from all lands in the State of New York. 



' ' To encourage in such way as may 

 be desirable the rendering of rivers and 

 streams of the State of New York more 

 available and adaptable for u.se by manu- 

 facturing and business interests. 



"To encourage the development of 

 our natural resources for the storage of 

 water." 



It is not intended to confine the mem- 

 bership to industrial concerns, as shown 

 by the following qualifications for mem- 

 bership: "All persons, associations, part- 

 nerships, and corporations who are sub- 

 scribers hereto and such others as from 

 time to time shall be elected by the exe- 

 cutive committee of the association will 

 be members of this association." The 

 principal office for the association is to 

 be in Albany, N. Y. 



The organization was perfected, ar- 

 ticles of association adopted, officers 

 elected, and committees appointed as 

 follows : 



President, William McEchron, a re- 

 tired lumberman ; vice-president, Theo. 

 Basselin, of the Beaver River Lumber 

 Company, Creghan, N. Y.; second vice- 

 president, E. E. Ashle}^ an attorney of 

 Glens Falls, N. Y. ; secretary, John C. 

 Durgin, manager of the woodlands de- 

 partment of the Union Bag and Paper 

 Compau}^ ; treasurer, Jere. T. Finch, a 

 lumberman of Glens Falls, N. Y. 



Executive Committee G. F. Under- 

 wood, manager of the woodlands de- 

 partment of the Union Bag and Paper 

 Company ; G. P. H. Gould, of the 

 Gould Paper Company, Lyons Falls, 

 N. Y. ; Geo. C. Sherman, of the St. 

 Regis Paper Company, Watertown, 

 N. Y., ; George Chahoon, of the J. & 



J. Rogers Company, Ausable Forks, 

 N. Y. ; Geo. W. Sisson; of the Rac- 

 quette River Paper Company, Potsdam, 

 N. Y., and L. W. Emerson. 



Finance Committee Herbert G. Al- 

 drich, of the Aldrich Paper Compau}-, 

 Natural Dam, N. Y. ; O. H. Tappan, a 

 Northern New York lumberman; Loren 

 Allen, of the Allen Brothers Companv, 

 Sandy Hill, N. Y. ; John H. Derby, 

 a Sandy Hill lumberman and paper- 

 maker ; James MacNaughton, of the 

 Maclntyre Iron Company, New York, 

 and John C. Duncan, of the Duncan 

 Company, Mechanicville, N. Y. 



Legislative Committee Frank L. 

 Bell, an attorne}^ of Glens Falls, N. Y. ; 

 Patrick Mo3aiehan, representing Wil- 

 liam C. Whitney ; Geo. N. Ostrander, 

 of the Racquette Falls Land Company, 

 Albany, N. Y. ; Curtis N. Douglas, a 

 northern New York lumberman, and 

 J. P. Lewis, of the J. P. Lewis Com- 

 pany, Beaver Falls, N. Y. 



Those who attended the meeting con- 

 trol several hundred thousand acres of 

 timber lands in the Adirondacks, as well 

 as most of the paper mills and lumber 

 industries located upon the rivers which 

 rise in the Adirondacks. 



While there are already in existence 

 a number of organizations representing 

 interests, commercial and otherwise, in 

 the Adirondacks, and whose objects are 

 in general to promote the interests of 

 both the members and the public at 

 large in the Adirondacks, there is none 

 that represents anywhere near so vast 

 an amount of capital or such varied in- 

 terests as the Forestry, Water Storage, 

 and Manufacturing Association of the 

 State of New York. 



The consensus of opinion at the meet- 

 ing was that the public at large does not 

 understand that the owners of great in- 

 dustrial properties in the Adirondacks 

 are most vitall}- interested in carrj'ing 

 out the purposes as set forth by the 

 articles of association adopted. 



It is felt that as this association is 

 composed more largely of practical men 

 than au}^ other organization it will be 

 able to supplement what has already 

 been accomplished toward improving 

 and preserving the great natural re- 

 sources of the state, both in water and 

 timber lands. 



