﻿HYDROLOGY 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  

  

  873 
  

  

  B. 
  M. 
  The 
  cut 
  of 
  spruce, 
  therefore, 
  amounted 
  to 
  only 
  about 
  23 
  

   per 
  cent 
  of 
  the 
  whole. 
  

  

  It 
  seems 
  to 
  the 
  writer 
  that 
  many 
  people 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  have 
  taken 
  

   unsound 
  ground 
  on 
  this 
  question 
  of 
  the 
  relation 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  to 
  

   great 
  manufacturing 
  enterprises. 
  Paper 
  has 
  been 
  justly 
  stated 
  

   to 
  be 
  the 
  index 
  of 
  a 
  people's 
  civilization, 
  but 
  if 
  popular 
  clamor 
  

   were 
  considered, 
  one 
  might 
  suppose 
  it 
  was 
  an 
  index 
  of 
  exactly 
  

   the 
  opposite. 
  The 
  manufacturers 
  are 
  not 
  to 
  blame 
  for 
  a 
  continual 
  

   increased 
  use 
  of 
  this 
  product, 
  and 
  so 
  long 
  as 
  paper 
  can 
  be 
  pro- 
  

   duced 
  from 
  wood 
  pulp 
  at 
  considerably 
  less 
  cost 
  than 
  from 
  other 
  

   raw 
  material, 
  it 
  is 
  idle 
  to 
  expect 
  that 
  anything 
  else 
  will 
  be 
  used. 
  

  

  THE 
  PROPER 
  FUTURE 
  COMMERCIAL 
  POLICY 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  foregoing 
  pages 
  we 
  have 
  seen 
  that 
  by 
  virtue 
  of 
  its 
  position, 
  

   New 
  York 
  is 
  naturally 
  so 
  situated 
  as 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  principal 
  manufac- 
  

   turing 
  area 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States, 
  but 
  that 
  because 
  of 
  developing 
  

   on 
  narrow 
  lines 
  it 
  has 
  realized 
  only 
  a 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  manufac- 
  

   turing 
  naturally 
  its 
  due. 
  After 
  the 
  Kevolutionary 
  war, 
  the 
  

   United 
  States 
  was 
  an 
  agricultural 
  region 
  purely 
  — 
  aside 
  from 
  

   agricultural 
  products, 
  substantially 
  everything 
  used 
  was 
  manu- 
  

   factured 
  abroad. 
  

  

  About 
  ninety 
  years 
  ago 
  Erie 
  canal 
  was 
  inaugurated 
  for 
  the 
  

   purpose 
  largely 
  of 
  carrying 
  agricultural 
  productions 
  — 
  grain, 
  

   lumber, 
  etc, 
  — 
  to 
  market. 
  It 
  was 
  not 
  realized 
  that 
  the 
  natural 
  

   destiny 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  was 
  for 
  manufacturing 
  rather 
  

   than 
  for 
  internal 
  commerce. 
  The 
  result 
  of 
  this 
  was 
  that 
  the 
  natural 
  

   flow 
  of 
  streams 
  throughout 
  the 
  central 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  was 
  

   mostly 
  appropriated 
  for 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  the 
  Erie 
  canal, 
  and 
  restrictive 
  

   laws 
  enacted 
  which 
  have 
  discouraged 
  the 
  development 
  of 
  manu- 
  

   facturing. 
  Hence 
  the 
  New 
  England 
  States, 
  where 
  an 
  opposite 
  

   policy 
  prevailed, 
  have 
  developed 
  far 
  more 
  manufacturing 
  per 
  unit 
  

   area 
  than 
  New 
  York, 
  although 
  farther 
  away 
  from 
  the 
  centers 
  of 
  

   trade 
  and 
  commerce. 
  

  

  Now 
  that 
  we 
  realize 
  the 
  great 
  mistake 
  made, 
  the 
  first 
  thing 
  to 
  

   be 
  done 
  is 
  to 
  remove 
  restrictions 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  water 
  of 
  every 
  

   sort 
  and 
  kind. 
  We 
  need 
  to 
  enact 
  a 
  constitutional 
  amendment 
  

   substantially 
  on 
  the 
  lines 
  laid 
  down 
  by 
  Mr 
  Herschel 
  in 
  1894, 
  and 
  

   also 
  we 
  need 
  such 
  further 
  legislation 
  as 
  will 
  permit 
  of 
  develop- 
  

  

  