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been cut below 10 inches. By the tax sale of 1895 only 39,564 acres 

 were acquired; and in the sale of 1900 the acquisition from this source 

 was reduced to 7,202 acres, nearly all of which consisted of lands 

 situated outside the Adirondack Park. The Comptroller expects to 

 hold another tax sale this year (1905); but it is doubtful if any land 

 will be acquired from this source that is situated within the Park 

 boundaries. Any further extension of the Forest Preserve, aside 

 from a few small, worthless lots, will have to be made through the 

 medium of purchases by the State. 



As previously stated here the Forest Preserve consists of 6,262 

 separate lots or parcels of land, mostly of 160-acre lots. Some 

 tracts are surveyed out in parcels of 200 acres each, and some town- 

 ships are s-ubdivided into mile square lots. Some townships con- 

 taining 30,000 acres are merely quartered. And so the lots vary 

 from quarter-sections of 40 acres to quarter-townships of 7,500. 

 But, whether small or large, each one of these 6,262 parcels of 

 State land in the Forest Preserve has its own surveyed boundary, 

 stands on its own title, and is a distinct, independent piece of real 

 estate. Several of these lots, when purchased, may be conveyed 

 to the State in the same deed; but one does not have to go back 

 very far in the abstract of title before there is a divergence in the 

 line of ownership. Your attention is thus called to the large number 

 of separate properties in order to give a better idea of the work 

 necessary in keeping a proper record of all this real estate and pro- 

 tecting the various titles. 



ADIRONDACK PARK. 

 The area of the Adirondack Park, of which the State owns only 

 a part, is 3,313,564 acres. So many persons are apt to think or 

 speak of the Adirondack Park and the Forest Preserve as being 

 the same, it may be well to state that, of the 1,347,280 acres in 

 the Forest Preserve lands of Northern New York, 1,228,357 acres 



