Report or Forust, Fish anp GAME ComMIssIon. 7 
SUMMAR Y. Acres. 
Adirondack Preserves. . ces cess csen sess enensec gays 15306,327 
Citi Wrersrve ecient ects sd atu kee a ual auaaes . 75,677 
LGUlitiee swam  -Skeeh neeaunin Da eecked 15,382,004 
This acreage is constantly increasing threugh the purchases of 
the Commission. In fact it is considerably greater at this date 
than the above figures indicate, owing to lands that were purchased 
but not conveyed at the time these schedules were completed. 
The State acquired some lands at the comptroller’s tax sale held 
last year, lands which in time will become a part of the Forest 
Preserve. But until the period of redemption expires it will be 
impossible to say with any accuracy how large this acquisition will 
be. By the previous tax sale, that of 1895, the Forest Preserve 
was increased 39,564 acres. There was no sale between 1895 and 
1900.* It is not expected that the sale of last year will yield as 
large an acreage as that of 1895. 
As previously stated here the Forest Preserve consists of 5,934 
separate lots or parcels of land, mostly of 160 acre lots. Some 
tracts are surveyed out in parcels of 200 acres each, and some 
townships are subdivided into mile square lots. Some townships 
containing 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 5,934 par- 
cels 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 
*Since 1871 the tax sales have been held in the following named years: 1871, 1877, 1881, 1885, 
1890, 1895 and 1900. 
