2 2 4 FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Per cord. 



Stumpage $o 75 to $1 00 



(Marketing for thinnings, 10c.) 



Cutting and stacking *75 to 1 50 



Hauling 1 00 to 1 50 



Total , $2 50 to $4 00 



"Wages, day's work $1 50 to $2 00 



Teams per day 4 50 to 5 00 



From the above figures it can be seen that in regions difficult of access 

 there is no profit at $4 a cord, and the sole advantage is the daily wage and 

 the fact that teams are kept busy during the winter months. 



Transportation. The transportation facilities are remarkably good, 

 the West Shore railroad running along the river on the east and the main 

 line of the Erie coming up as far as Newburgh Junction; and from there 

 the Short Line continues to Newburgh. 



The maximum distance between railroads is about nine miles, with a 

 down-hill haul in either direction. In addition the Hudson furnishes an 

 opportunity for cheap water transportation up or down the river. 



Roads. Besides the seventy-five or eighty miles of roads worked regu- 

 larly there is a perfect labyrinth of old wood roads and highways no longer 

 used, which would total at least 200 miles more. The latter are, in many 

 cases, badly overgrown and washed. With a small expenditure the most 

 important could be cleared out and would serve both as fire lines and means 

 of communication. 



Past Management. As has been intimated before, for generations it 

 lias been the custom to clear cut the woodland for brick yard fuel, and so 

 blindly has this custom been followed that it is no uncommon sight to 

 see areas which were clear cut at the age of fifteen years, the sprouts being 

 no thicker at the stump than a man's wrist. 



60.75 clear cutting, $1.50 thinning. 



