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in Franklin county and proposed to Exchange; I didn't suppose the 

 warden in the performance of that duty would supersede or interfere 

 with the appointment of appraisers or anything of the kind, but 

 simply to satisfy our minds that prima facie it was a fair proposition. 



Mr. Anibal. — In this final recommendation you made in the Ever- 

 ton Lumber Company deal, a portion was to be three acres for one, a 

 portion one acre for one ? 



A. Yes; I insisted upon it, that we should have three acres for one, 

 but it was modified afterwards and we agreed if we could get 26,000 

 acres to take it. 



Mr. Fiero.— You required that as a condition precedent to making 

 the exchange ? 



A. Yes. 



Recross-examination : 

 By Mr. Adams : 



Q. In your judgment, Mr. Kinevals, why can not the exterior lines 

 of the preserve be fixed and the State lands preserved and cared for 

 in that way just as well as to have a park and have another adminis- 

 tration ? 



A. You mean have the line follow all the State land ? 



Q. I mean to have exterior lines of this preserve so as to include 

 the State land such as the State want to keep, bound the preserve 

 and call that the State preserve, and have it administered as a pre- 

 serve; why isn't that just as well, or why can't that be done and 

 supercede the necessity of a park ? 



A. It doesn't commend itself to my judgment, that is all I can say 

 about it; I think it would be very irregular in shape, without form, 

 and it would involve the State in an expenditure which they never 

 would carry through; I think they would break down. 



Q. What more would it cost the State to fix the exterior lines of the 

 preserve than it would to fix the exterior lines of the park ; what 

 more trouble or expense would it be ? 



A. It will be infinitely more trouble to run the boundaries of such a 

 park as that; it seems to me a great deal more; I think to get a tract 

 of regular shape will be very much more economically surveyed 

 and laid out; it seems to me that a track of the size shown on this 

 diagram and comparing it with the size of certain States of this 

 republic, and considering it is one fourteenth of the entire area of the 

 State of New York, is a very respectable sort of a play ground. 



Q. You don't quite apprehend me ? 



A. I am not answering anything now; I am just making that 

 remark. 



