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were omitted; they are forest land, but they are not so well wooded 

 and the timber is not so desirable; to have taken in these two towns 

 would have necessitated moving in the line in Herkimer county, 

 where the land was more needed; the Fulton chain is probably the 

 finest piece of lake property in the whole forest, with the exception of 

 Baquette lake. 



Chairman Ryan. — You thought the lakes were more desirable than 

 what you left out at that corner ? 



A. This has all been cut over; I think I had a long talk with people 

 in Warren county who lived right here, and were familiar with the 

 lands and the report of the forester on each lot, and the report of the 

 assessors on each lot, who are obliged by law to describe each lot on 

 the assessment-roll, was carefully studied; I suppose there was two 

 or three weeks of several hours a day devoted to studying lots in 

 these two towns. 



Q. Did you have reports of the foresters in different part of the 

 preserve ? 



A. We had reports of the foresters on every lot; detailed reports 

 through the eastern part and the southern part, also including the 

 central part. 



Q. What was done after you had drawn that line upon the map with 

 reference to sending it to the commissioners, was there a draft sent ? 



A, I turned it over to Mr. Train, the secretary, and I suppose fur- 

 nished to the commissioners. 



Q. I want to call your attention again to the reason why you 

 adopted these lot lines rather than the straight lines upon the ques- 

 tion of the necessity of a line which could be followed, and with refer- 

 ence to the expense of a survey, and to the fact whether such a survey 

 was available ? 



A. The whole idea was to run lines on well-known surveyed lines, 

 first, so as to save the cost of a survey; secondly, and what is more 

 important, there could be no computation whatever of the acreage of 

 that park unless it ran on the lines of lots whose acreage was known; 

 to have run a line by compass through there, or traced a line on the 

 map without reference to the lots, it would have been impossible 

 to have made the computation that accompanied the report; over 7,000 

 parcels were examined to make that computation; the third reason 

 was it was considered advisable to lay out such a line so that if 

 necessary, if the park was ever adopted, and that line was adopted, it 

 could be described in an act of the Legislature so there would be 

 no question about the particular lands included, and their boundaries; 

 they could always be found and would always be known. 



