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of its size, makes a perfect forest shade on this lot, down whose slopes 

 flow numerous clear spring brooks to the lake. This lot contains 

 457£ acres, ^and in view of its accessibility and adaptibility to camp 

 sites, we placed a valuation of four dollars per acre upon it. 

 In. the balance of this tract, lots 171, 174, 219, 226 and 227, 

 because of the size of the lots and in consideration of their 

 location and the condition of the* timber standing on them, 

 were put into the appraisal at one dollar and twenty-five cents per 

 acre. Lot 175, situated on Sand lake, and well suited to camping 

 purposes, we appraised at one dollar and fifty cents per acre, while 

 the remaining lots in this tract, containing 2,262 acres, were valued at 

 one dollars per acre. 



Moose River tract township 9 comprises 'fifty-seven lots and parts of 

 lots, aggregating 11,136 acres, lies northwest of Piseco lake, and with 

 the lands now in possession of the State makes practically 20,000 

 acres of land stretching back from the northwest shore of the lake, 

 and this block touches, or nearly so, the southwest corner of township 

 3, nearly all of which township is now in possession of the State. 

 This tract in township 9 includes several ponds of considerable size, 

 and is well watered by brooks and streams and covered with original 

 growth of hard wood timber, well^ flecked with the dark timber that 

 was too small to be cut for lumber when these lots were cut over. No 

 forest fires have ever marred its beauty, nor have settlers cleared up or 

 denuded it in patches. It is for all purposes of the State, as a water- 

 shed to the Hudson river or as a part of the State preserve, equally as 

 valuable as though it were primeval forest. Lake Piseco is a beauti- 

 ful sheet of water, a mile^ or more in width and six miles long. Its 

 waters are clear and cool and abound in trout. "We valued these lots 

 in Moose river tract at one dollar and fifty cents per acre. In the gore 

 between townships 29 and 31, Totten and Crossfield's purchase, lots 1 

 to 9 inclusive, 1,526^^ acres, we valued at one dollar per acre, for 

 while they are well timbered with hard wood they do not lie contiguous 

 to any considerable body of water. Congermunk creek takes its rise 

 in a nameless pond lying north of these nine lots about half of a mile, 

 and flows through Elm lake into the Sacandaga river, three or four 

 miles east of Lake Pleasant. In township 19, T. & C. purchase, Gospel, 

 school and literature lots 1,280 acres, lying on the western shore of 

 Tywell pond, well timbered and a solid block one mile wide and two 

 miles long are valued at one dollar and fifty cents per acre. In town- 

 ship 17, T. and C. purchase G. S. and L. lots 1,280 acres one mile 

 wide and two miles long, with a small pond on one lot. and another 

 just east of the lots through which a creek flows to the Cedar river, 



