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all of them go into the Saranacs, so the line had to include that 

 region also; then when I )came to draw this line I found myself tied 

 down by these facts or by these instructions; first, there was the 

 Hudson river water shed, all of which had to be taken in, the summer 

 resorts and the sanitarium in the northeast corner around Lake 

 Placid and the Saranacs; then to go as far west with the line as a 

 park of 2,250,000 acres would carry it; those instructions limited a 

 park, outlined the park; the only thing left to my discretion were 

 details regarding lot lines and the exclusion of denuded and burned 

 territory that might lie contiguous to the general outline. 



Chairman Ryan. — You wanted to leave that outside of the proposed 

 park as far as practicable ? 



A. Yes, sir; where undesirable territory, waste lands, burned, 

 denuded or open lands laid over near the line, the line was drawn so 

 as to leave such lands outside; in the Herkirmer county line there is 

 a great deal, of difficulty in' getting what would be a fair looking line 

 from the fact that all the lot lines in that part of the forest run north- 

 west and southeast; they run diagonally, and only in one place could 

 I run the line out north or south to correspond with the general north 

 and south line which is marked out through the middle of Herkimer 

 county; that is the straight line which shows on this map which is on 

 the west border of township eight of the John Brown tract; the zigzag 

 lines below there were occassioned by running out in one place to 

 take in the Woodhull reservoirs which are owned by the State, and 

 south of that the other line running contrary to the north aDd south 

 line was caused by the direction of the lots in the Nobleborough 

 Patent; the sharp angle in the town of Morehouse was made so 

 as to exclude the ; village of Morehouseville, and that was 

 put in there because ihere is a small tract known 



as B & Maxwell tract which has a plainly defined 



survey line well marked and it was considered advisable to make that 

 recess in the line so as to leave the village of Morehouseville out; 

 wherever it was possible we preferred to leave villages and settle- 

 ments of any size outside of the line, in case they were anywhere 

 near the edge of the line. 



By Chairman Ryan: 



Q. What is the largest settlement you have included within the 

 boundaries of the whole park? 



A. I think the town of Wells is as large a village as any; up in the 

 Saranac region there are several large places; as to the relative size I 

 couldn't tell without looking the matter up some. 



