13 



Q. With whom did you go ? 



A. Sometimes with the warden and sometimes with one of the com- 

 missioners, and sometimes I went alone. 



Q. Do you recollect any occasion when you went with the warden or 

 anyone else where you went and whom you saw ? 



A. "We say a great many people; I couldn't tell who we saw. 



Q. Can you recollect one single occasion so as to reproduce it in 

 substance before the committee ? 



A. It would be a difficult matter to say exactly whom I had seen; I 

 saw a great many people; I would speak with every one anywhere 

 wherever I went. 



Q. So the warden represented the commission in the lands, and 

 attended to the principal part of the business, and it was only an 

 occasional thing that you went out ? 



A. Well, yes; that is my understanding of it. 



Q. Do you know whether Mr. Cox went up through the Adirondack 

 region ? 



A. I heard him say so. 



Q. Do you know whether Mr. Knevals went with his club? 



A. He took a trip with me when we went through from one side to 

 the other. 



Q. Where did ypu go and where did you come out ? 



A. We started in at Moira and went through to Paul Smith's, and 

 through to the Prospect House, and Bartlett's and Martin's; upon 

 that occasion Mr. Knevals accompanied me as far as Smith's lake, 

 and I Went home that way, he returning the other Way. 



Q. Anyone but you and Mr. Knevals ? 

 . A. The warden. 



Q. Did you see any of the foresters upon that occasion ¥ 



A. I don't recollect whether I did or not. 



Q. How long were you upon this trip ? 



A. About three weeks. 



Q. Any one go with you except the warden and Mr. Knevals ? 



A. I think Mr. Knevals' wife accompanied him. 



Q. And did you devote yourselves to the pleasures of the woods 

 during any portion of the time ? 



A. It is always a pleasure to go through the woods. 



Q. My question was whether you devoted any of the time to those 

 pleasures* — fishing or hunting or camping? 



A. I myself did neither fishing or hunting. , 



Q. Are you familiar with this survey made by Mr. Colvin and sub- 

 mitted to the Legislature ? 



