people go for hunting, fishing and camping, the Allegany State 

 Park needs adequate protection from fire and the means of 

 combating fire successfully. There is no provision for these 

 needs at the present time. The area already acquired by the 

 state within the park must be safeguarded in this respect. 



Temporary, inadequate means of supplying pure drinking 

 water to the thousands who use the park have been installed. 

 These means must be replaced by more permanent and ade- 

 quate methods. The sanitation of the park is at present only 

 of a temporary character. This problem of protecting the 

 public against disease and the protection of streams from pollu- 

 tion is one to which the Commission has given great concern. 

 A well-considered plan for both water supply and sanitation for 

 the park area has been devised which should be installed at the 

 earliest possible moment. 



From all of the above it is plain that the Allegany State 

 Park should have a much larger amount of state-owned land, 

 a road and trail system and other permanent betterments if it 

 is to serve the large population of the western end of the state 

 (see table below) who are already making greater demands 

 on the park than it has been possible to supply. 



Benefiting Counties in New York State 

 Counties Population 1920 



Erie 634,688 



Monroe 352,034 



Niagara 118,705 



Chautauqua 115,348 



Steuben 80,627 



Chemung 71,323 



Ontario 65,872 



Genesee 37,976 



Allegany 36,842 



Livingston 36,830 



Wyoming 30,314 



Orleans 28,619 



Yates 16,641 



Schuyler 13,098 



Total 1,691,569 



Submitted by 



Albert T. Fancher, Chairman. 

 Chauncey J. Hamlin 

 Fred G- Kaiser 

 George C. Diehl 

 Hamilton Ward 



Commissioners of the Allegany State Park. 

 Benry E. Francis^ Executive Secretary. 

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