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be interested in it, the Governor is interested in it and all the people 

 of the State are interested in it — I say I think that interest is owing 

 to the work we have done, and the interest we have created by bring- 

 ing it before the people; I think it was our duty to do that and I 

 think we have done it; I don't say but what we might have done 

 better. 



Q. Don't you think these articles in the New York papers have 

 done something to create an interest in the subject in the last two or 

 three years? 



A. Yes, sir; I do; I don't know but what it will work good in the 

 end. 



Q. You don't say that they have yet ? 



A. Yes, sir; I feel more stirred up; I am going to pile into any 

 work I have got to do; -I was never more stirred up; I know my 

 boys — I have got a lot of boys — every time I get home read these 

 articles to me and I get a little tired of that. 



Q. You have got tired of these articles ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Do you get any ideas from them ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Valuable ideas ? 



A. Yes, sir; I think so to me; I am going to be on the alert. 



Q. You think the articles in the papers have done as much to stir 

 lip public sentiment in favor of the park as the commission ? 



A. No, sir; I don't think so; I think maybe they will delay the 

 action; perhaps those very articles will delay the action upon* the 

 park; I don't think the interest is quite so great in being willing to 

 appropriate several million dollars this session for the park; I think 

 it looked very much at one time as if we could have several millions, 

 and I don't think we will get one million this year. 



Q. Do you know how much you have added to the State land since 

 the commission has been in existence in the Adirondack region ? 



A. No, sir; it is not any very great amount. 



Mr. Anibal.— About 100,000 acres? 



The Witness. — Yes, it is about that. 



Q. For some years previous to the formation of this commission the 

 State lands have been denuded of timber to the amount of $100,000 a 



year? 



A. I don't say denuded; I say the timber has been stolen; " denud- 

 ing " means to take the trees , entirely off; the simple fact of taking 

 out twelve to fifteen trees on an acre in a primeval forest does not 

 denude it; it is almost impossible for you to tell that there have 



