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Home, N. Y., June 4, 1888. 

 To Benton Turner, Plattstmrgh : 



I received a telegram from you a long time since, and have expected 

 every week to come there the next, and will before long now. I have 

 been investing a little in woods property as you will see by the 

 inclosed clipping; we expect to have one-half of the road running by 

 July. 



I am yours most respectfully. 



S. P. GAEMON. 



Lowville, N. Y., 3-19, 1888. 

 To Benton Turner, Plattsburgh : 



I just received yours of the sixteenth. I am going into Herkimer 



county now and will be gone three or four days, but will meet you 



some day following that' at Potsdam, and I think that the best way. 



Will communicate with you as soon as I can get out of Herkimer 



county. 



I am yours with respect. 



S. F. GAEMON, 



Warden. 



Q. Was that the clip inclosed in that letter ? 



A. I can't tell you anything about it. 



Q. The question is, was that the clip inclosed in this letter of June 

 sixth? 



A. I should presume that it was, I can't say further than that; that 

 relates to that same little railroad, anyway. 



Q. I will give it to the reporter so he can put it in the minutes. 



'■Dr. Alexander H. Crosby, of this village, and Samuel P. Garmon, 

 of Watson, have purchased of A. B. Lamberton, of Bochester, the Old 

 Forge House on the Pulton chain of lakes, and 1,3^0 acres of timber 

 land for $10,000. The hotel will be managed by Joseph A. Harvey, 

 who has already taken possession. Messrs. Crosby and Garmon and 

 Hon. G. H. P. Gould now proposed to build a horse railroad from the 

 Moose river tannery through the heart of the Adirondacks to the Forge 

 House, providing the right of way can be obtained, and in this they 

 will, probably, have no trouble. The distance from the Moose river 

 tannery to the proposed terminus of the railroad is fourteen miles, the 

 right of way of seven miles of which has already been secured and 

 surveyors will commence laying out the route the present week. These 

 gentlemen have also entered into contract with Francis G. Crary of 

 this place, to take his steam saw mill into the wilderness and cut the 



