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A. They manage to tax every lot. 



Q. And tax it twice and get it set aside, and having found this 

 mark and having the description of the statute, what difficulty is 

 there in establishing that line as well as any other old line ? 



A. Would be no difficulty. 



Q. Inasmuch as that would draw this west line of the park several 

 miles to the west and make a straight line, what is the objection; why 

 shouldn't it be done, in your judgment? 



A. I see no objection to it, except the expense of buying the land. 



Q. If *you are going to lay out the park and make the boundary, it 

 would be no different west of this blue line as well as here; there is a 

 great deal of land east of it the State don't own; what is the objection 

 to making a survey of the Herkimer county land and making the. 

 Herkimer land the west boundary of the park? 



A. One reason why the line wasn't run over there — 



Q. The question is, what objection is there to having the park line 

 the west line of the proposed park on the Herkimer county line ? 



A. To start with, there is no State land, with the exception of three 

 very small parcels, between the supposed Herkimer county line and 

 the blue line, as shown on that map. 



Q. Isn't it true east of the blue line there is a great deal of land 

 that isn't State land; more than half of it? 



A. Yes. 



Q. How is that a valid objection to moving the line of this proposed 

 park further west ? 



A. Because there is a greater proportion of State land in every 

 town of the outlined park as it is shown there than in the park which 

 lies to the west of the blue line. 



Q. Suppose the State didn't own any land west of this blue line, 

 what objection is there to extending, making a straight line on the 

 Herkimer county line north ? 



A. Merely a question of expense. 



Q. Expense of survey? 



A. No, sir; buying the land. 



Q. Only the lands east of the blue line, as you have laid it down, 

 have to be bought? 



A. I say a large proportion of it. 



Q. If this land west of the blue line and up to the Herkimer county 

 line is good, dense forest and has a 1,000 feet elevation, it is just as 

 desirable for park property as it is to the south and where it is 

 denuded land, isn't it? 



A. It is desirable park land in there. 

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