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Q. Get a better price out of the State ? 



A, They would if they get the price I hear talked. , 



Q. Have they already commenced to talk high prices in conse- 

 quence of the prospect of establishing a park there ? 



A. I have seen in the papers prices mentioned at the rate of five 

 dollars an acre for land on which all the primitive timber stands now. 



Q.*What was the price of that previous to the time of this park? 



A. Some of it was sold for taxes a few years ago. 



Q. How much an acre would that be ? 



A. That would depend upon how many years taxes there was now. 



Q. Fifty cents, perhaps ? 



A. It might be a dollar, sometimes a dollar and a half, from that 

 down to twenty cents. > 



Q. Not over a dollar and a half ? 



A. I don't remember now any. 



Q. That would be a high price, would, it; fair high price ? 



A. A tax sale might cover ten years of taxes, and those taxes, with 

 the ten per cent figured upon them, you would have to pay, and by 

 the time you got through with the Comptroller's office would cost you 

 somewhere from seventy-five cents to a dollar an acre on lands that 

 had been assessed two dollars an acre. 



Q. What do they assess this land for as a general thing ? 



A. They are in the habit of assessing most of it that has timber 

 upon it at two dollars an acre; if it has been lumbered out they 

 assess it a little lower; some denuded lands they don't put much 

 value to. 



Q; These are the same lands that are now spoken of as being worth 

 five dollars an acre to the State ? 



A. Those lands that has timber upon them might be considered 

 worth five dollars an acre, would depend upon their location. 



Q. Would you consider any land up there that has been lumbered 

 worth five dollars an acre ? 



A We sometimes sell land for about five dollars an acre that 

 saw-timber has been taken off of it where it is near some village that 

 it is needed for village' purposes; I have sold some near Malone; 

 Mr. Parmerlee, a big lumberman, sells some of his wood land, reserv- 

 ing the timber, at five or six dollars an acre. 



Q. The average price of this land four or five miles back from 

 the village, if it is well covered with hard wood, forty cords to the 

 acre, they will get from five to seven dollars an acre for it? 



A. That is all. 



