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any aanger of passing railroad trains through wooded 

 districts has been removed. 



2. The hxbor required in the management of forests 

 is much smaller than that employed in any other busi- 

 ness, especially in the allied one, of agriculture; but 

 any sum of money properly spent in the administration 

 and exploitation of forests will always give sure and 

 highly satisfactory returns. See pp. 17 and 18. 



3. Forest lands are bound to be in the future much 

 more high-jDriced and remunerative than they are at 

 present, because with the continually increasing popu- 

 lation in our State and country the demand for wood 

 products will become larger and influence their prices 

 to such a degree as we are now unable to imagine. The 

 first importation of foreign pine will send up the price 

 of American pine to the cost of production. 



Considered solely from a business standpoint, the said 

 features would render the possession of forests greatly 

 acceptable to corporations and governments, as these 

 are su]3posed to be not confined to the short natural term 

 of human life, and, therefore, will live to enjoy the full 

 benefits to be derived from forest planting and forest 

 management. To our State the acquisition of the 

 Adirondack forests would be the more desirable as this 

 is the only means to preserve the wooded condition of 

 til at region for the purposes for which they are by a 

 benign Providence destined, viz., to protect and benefit 

 the country in its physical condition, and to furnish a 

 permanent supply of lumber, timber, and fuel. It is 

 true, there has been in p. 13 expressed a somewhat 

 different oj^inion in this regard. But those lines were 

 penned under the impression that the imperfect views 

 about " forest preservation," laid down in the Forestry 

 Act of 1885 would not so soon be given up, and sub- 



