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Summary 



Adirondack Counties 



Clinton county .- $23,659 93 



Essex county 37>°33 °5 



Franklin county 33-535 1 7 



Fulton county 2 , 293 00 



Hamilton county 20,610 95 



Herkimer county 3 , 701 63 



Lewis count}" 6 , 002 54 



Oneida county 742 25 



St. Lawrence county 29,916 72 



Saratoga county 3 , 941 30 



Warren county : 16 , 438 07 



Washington county 1 , 1 1 7 00 



— $178,991 61 



Catskill Counties 



Delaware county $1 , 943 78 



Greene county 3 ,072 64 



Sullivan county 3.655 18 



Ulster county 1 , 998 30 



10,669 90 



Total $189,661 51 



The annual loss of forests by fire and axe in this State, which is shown 

 by the foregoing figures in regard to fires, and will be stated later under our 

 annual forest product, is a matter of serious importance to our welfare and 

 affects the supremacy of the Empire State. The reasons why a certain 

 amount is necessary have been fully explained in these reports year after 

 year, and the people are now beginning to appreciate that the}' are only too 

 true. How much longer it will be necessary to explain these reasons is a 

 problem. Must the home, camp, or favorite hunting ground of every one 

 be burned or its destruction threatened by forest fires to fully realize the 

 danger of such fires ? Is it possible that we must see or suffer the effects of 

 floods to appreciate their destructive forces? And again, must the residents 

 of our cities be threatened with a water famine to realize that our springs will 

 not supply the brooks " which flow on forever " unless the forest cover is 



