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933 towns in the State with a request that he enter on it a complete list 

 of the mills in his town that use logs or round wood from the forests of 

 New York. This work having been completed, another and different blank 

 form is sent to each mill owner on which to make a return showing the 

 amount of timber, by species, consumed during the year. 



Although the total output of the New York forests and woodlands 

 now exceeds each year a billion and a quarter of feet, board measure, this 

 amount is divided among so many mills, including a large number of port- 

 able ones, that none of their reports show a large cut as compared with 

 some mills in other states. The mills in New York reporting the largest 

 amount of lumber sawed in 1906 were: 



*Brown's Tract Lumber Co., Fulton Chain, N. Y 22,464,590 



fA. Sherman Lumber Co., Tupper Lake, N. Y 22 ,061 , 568 



Norwood Manufacturing Co., Tupper Lake, N. Y 21 ,095 , 170 



Rich Lumber Co., Wanakena, N. Y 16,576, 128 



Kenyon Lumber Co., Sandy Hill, N. Y 12 , 472 , 723 



Finch, Pruyn & Co., Glens Falls, N. Y 11 ,351 ,683 



Post & Henderson, Benson Mines, N. Y 10,951 , 727 



Millard Lumber Co., Westport, N. Y 10,300,000 



Moose River Lumber Co., McKeever, N. Y 8, 530,974 



Herkimer Lumber Co., Moulin, N. Y 8,250,000 



In our former reports the list of mills with the largest output of sawed 

 lumber contained the names of firms that no longer appear in such lists, 

 their omission indicating plainly the rapid depletion of the timber on the 

 tracts where they once carried on extensive operations. 



Reforesting Operations. 



The number of seedling trees planted last year was small as compared 

 with our operations of this kind in previous years, owing to a lack of four- 

 year old plants in our nurseries and funds for the purchase of stock else- 



*Two mills; includes one at Giles, N. Y. 

 fTwo mills; includes one at Potsdam, N. Y. 



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