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Benson to Northville, all in Benson Fattent ; hard wood and excelser 



timber ; part on a hill, part of woods lake, and I think it ought to be 



worth one dollar per acre. Please write and tell what you will do by 



return mail, and oblige 



MELVIN WARNER, 



Cranberry Greek, N. Y. 

 (Diagram.) 



Upper Jay, Essex Co., June 3. 

 To the Comptroller's office : 



I wrote you last fall, which you answered, asking you if I could sell 

 to the State the north ■ 200 acres, except sixty-two acres which is 

 owned by other parties; 138 acres I would like to sell No. of lot 52, 

 lying in the town of Wilmington, Essex county, said land joins 150 

 acres now State property. 



Will sell at one dollar per acre, taxes paid to date. 



Please answer this and oblige, 



N. H. SUMNER. 



Answered October 17, W. F. F. 



Albany, N. Y., November 10, 1890. 

 Hon. Board of Forest Commissioners of State of New York : 



Gentlemen. — The undersigned respectfully represents the owner of 

 lots of land Nos. 80, 89, 90, 91 and 92, in township 14, Totten and 

 Crossfield purchase, Essex county, N. Y., about one thousand acres; 

 that said owner would be pleased to sell said lands to the people of 

 the State of New York, as a portion of the contemplated Adirondack 

 park, for the sum of $1.50 per acre, free of all incumbrances and 

 taxes, excepting as to the tax of 1890, reserving to himself the right 

 to cut and remove from said lands all the soft timber thereon, to wit. : 

 Cedar, balsam, tamarac, cherry, ash, pine, spruce and hemlock. The 

 party will stipulate not to cut any cherry, ash, cedar, balsam or tam- 

 arac less than twelve inches in diameter, two feet from the ground, 

 and quit and surrender all his rights in said timber to the State on 

 or before the 1st day of April, 1892. 



Search of title and any other evidence or information required will 

 be furnished, if this application is accepted. 



An early answer is most respectfully requested. 



Yours truly. 



P. F. MARSH, 

 Agent. 



