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Q. No business up there except hotel people ? 



A. Saranac Lake, I suppose, is quite a large place; that is the ter- 

 minus of the Chataugay railroad; that is probably the largest place 

 inside the forest preserve; that couldn't be left out because the line 

 ran too far to the north. 



Q. Approximately about how many miles north of that post-office is 

 your north line ? 



A. About fifteen miles; the line was run pretty well to the north 

 there because the State owned so much land in township 20 and town- 

 ship 11, and in the town of St. Armond, and in township 20 of Santa 

 Clara. 



Q. Now, Mr. Fox, if you will continue the statement you were mak- 

 ing with reference to those lands ? 



A. On the line that ran along here, as we came over into Herkimer 

 county, in order to get the north and south line, I had to reach it by 

 running along on the lines of the Nobleborough Patent; that is a 

 large piece of land in here which is a very valuable land; I put 

 the blue line south so as to include the last lot; these lines 

 run in that direction; as soon as I passed the last lot of land, 

 I came back to the main north and south line, and I had no 

 sooner got there than it was necessary to take in Woodhull reser- 

 voir; the State owns that reservoir; this map was made and engraved 

 and printed before the forest commission was organized; this map 

 was made in 1884, and having taken in the Woodhull reservoirs we 

 then came back and took in this straight line on the side of township 

 8, taking in the Fulton chain, which shows on the small map; I refer 

 to that more particularly because there has been a great deal of 

 criticism in the paper regarding that zigzag line; there could be no 

 straight line drawn through there. 



Q. What is the condition of the land there with reference to the 

 survey ? 



A. These lines are all well marked; the line of Herkimer county; 

 however, is not surveyed, and to have gone much further we would 

 have had no survey line to run on; but we didn't enter into the ques- 

 tion, because the allotted number of acres was used up by the time 

 we got to the middle of Herkimer county; the north line, the large, 

 bell-shaped piece of red on the corner of township 20, and also the 

 checker piece to the right, forms the north line; the blue line cor- 

 responds here to the line of the forest, as marked on this map, 

 with the exception of the town of Stony Creek, and Thurman, in 

 Warren county, was omitted because the land there was not as desir- 

 able or as much needed as the land in the Fulton chain, therefore they 



