both brook and river chuck full, as the fishers term it, of speckled 

 trout, from one to two pounds down to little fry. You asked for map; 

 I have no map, but have sent to owners for same. I am familiar with 

 every foot 01 it, however, having been a guide for the last twenty- 

 eight years. All fishing and hunting grounds are familiar with me. 

 I know this is one of the best. It has been lumbered of spruce and 

 pine once. It is estimated one dollar per acre is left of spruce. All 

 the hemlock but little is left. Some nice black ash. All the hard- 

 wood. Spruce on most of it was light. It is some hilly, not much 

 swampy. A good many springs. Some beautiful beach and maple 

 flats. Price as it is, four dollars per acre; with hemlock off, three 

 dollars. I may be able to shade that, but don't look like it 

 now The parties that own it would not sell to State if they knew it 

 for railroad from Canada, is expected to go through it in a few years, 

 but it makes no odds to me if I get their price I shall sell. I will give 

 you the outlines of lot until I am able to get map. 



Yours respectfully. 



J. LESLIE CRARY. 



Q. He wanted three' dollars an acre after taking the timber; the 

 date of that is December 10, 1890; it appears from the letter itself 

 that negotiations had been entered into with this man when he said 

 he had 6,000 acres; they commenced negotiating with him, and it 

 now dwindles down to 900 and he wanted four dollars per acre ? 



A. He said he hadn't as much land as he thought he had, but there 

 was a piece of 900 acres that belonged to somebody else that he could 

 sell to the State for four dollars, with the hemlock on. 



Chairman Ryan. — Were any of these applications received by the 

 commission prior to the time you rescinded the resolution ? 



Mr. Anibal. — The matter where the resolution was in reference to 

 was the exchange of lands under the Hadley bill; these are applica- 

 tions under the appropriation of $25,000 passed by the Legislature to 

 buy. 



Chairman Ryan. — You have read some applications for the exchange 

 of the lands ? 



Mr. Anibal. — Yes. 



Chairman Ryan. — Were they submitted to the commission prior to 

 the time you rescinded the resolution which you passed shortly 

 after the commission was established ? 



Mr. Basselin. — The application of Mr. Hurd was before that. 



Chairman Ryan. — That was during the time your resolution was in 

 vogue ? 



Mr. Basselin.— Yes, sir. 



