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Albany, Thursday, March 5, 1891. 



The subcommittee met pursuant to adjournment. 



Present — Chairman Ryan and Mr. Davie. 



Chairman Ryan. — We are ready. 



Mr. Anibal. — The Comptroller, upon our application, has brought 

 here and left with us to be introduced in evidence, if we saw fit, this 

 paper: 



In the Matter of the Application of the Everton Lumber Company for 



an Exchange of Lands with the State. 

 Hon. Charles F. Tabor, Attorney-General : ( 



Dear Sir. — I have the honor to transmit herewith the report of the 

 appraisers in the above matter, together with all the papers, maps, 

 etc., accompanying , the same. As the papers are somewhat volu- 

 minous, a brief summary of the proceedings taken and of the 

 appraiser's report might be of use to you. 



Agreeably to your instructions, then, and upon due notice to the 

 attorneys of the Everton Lumber Company, I made application to Hon. 

 S. A. Beman, county judge of Franklin county, and to Hon. W. H. Fry, 

 county judge of Hamilton county, for an order appointing one appraiser 

 for each county, as required by the act authorizing an exchange of 

 lands by the State, Floyd J. Hadley, Esq , of Malone was appointed by 

 Judge Beman, and Peter Harris, Esq., of Hope, by Judge Fry. These 

 two shortly afterwards met and selected Horace B. King, Esq., of Cham- 

 plain, Clinton county, as the third appraiser. ,, Mr. Hadley, while a 

 member of the Legislature in 1887, introduced and secured the pass- 

 age of the act just referred to, and as this was the first application 

 under that law there seemed to be a certain fitness in his selection. 

 He is, moreover^ a lifelong resident of Franklin county, and possesses 

 an intimate knowledge of the entire northern slope of the Adirondack 

 region. Mr. Harris has been for years the county treasurer of Ham- 

 ilton county and has been engaged all his life in lumbering in his own 

 and in adjoining counties, on the southern slope. Mr. King has 

 spent a good part of each summer for the past twenty years in, camp- 

 ing and traveling about through all sections of this so-called wilder- 

 ness. These, three gentlemen were certainly well qualified for the 

 duties required of them; they were wholly disinterested and impar- 

 tial, and, in my opinion, both parties were fortunate in securing their 

 services. Their work was done with great thoroughness and a con- 

 sciencious regard for details; every available source of information 

 was sought by them in their efforts to make a just and fair appraisal. 

 Should an exchange, of landa be decided upon by the officials in whom 



