Regarding the number of persons going into 

 the interior of Maine for fishing and limiting, a 

 rather interesting statement was made at the meet- 

 ing of the Conservation Commission for Canada in 



4 

 1910. A census taken in the summer of 1908 sinewed 



this number to he 133,885, and according to a 



conservation railroad count, 250, QQO in 1907. One 



hundred dollars was a very conservative estimate 



of the amount of money left in the state by each 



visitor. The question was asked of the meeting 



if they realized how many sticks of timber it 



would take to produce that $25,000,000 net. 



Regarding reservations accessible to 

 large cities, their use fully justifies their 

 existence. At the First National Conference on Parks 

 held at DesMoines, Iowa in January 1921, 5 Major 

 W.A.Welch, General Manager of the Palisades Inter- 

 state Park gave the total number of visitors from 

 May to October in 1920 as 2,133,500. 



It is estimated that in 1920 more than 

 3,000,000 people visited the Cook County Forest 

 Preserve of Illinois; probably more in 1921, - 

 at all events the number is equivalent to the 

 total population of Chicago. 



The most recent statistics from the 



