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(board measure) and some in cords. When the amount was expressed in feet it 

 was tabulated with the sawed lumber, but if in cords it was placed with the 

 items of that class. 



The total output of the Adirondack and Catskill forests is : 



Ft. B. M. 



Adirondacks 544,254,898 



Catskills 115,127,622 



Total 659,382,52 



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Shingles 38,148,250 



Lath 56,396,200 



But the forest product of the Empire State is not confined to the output of 

 the Adirondack and Catskill regions. There is a large area of primitive forest in 

 Lewis County, west of the Black River Valley, in the towns of Osceola, Montague 

 and Highmarket, which, owing to its isolated situation, is not considered as a 

 part of the Adirondack district. A wide area of productive woodland still remains 

 in some of the counties on the southern tier, especially in Cattaraugus and Chau- 

 tauqua, while throughout all the farming districts there are scattered belts of timber 

 that furnish a stock of logs, principally hardwoods, for many small mills. Hence 

 the entire forest product of New York is considerably greater than that reported 

 here from the Adirondack and Catskill counties. Any consideration of the latter 

 two districts would thus be misleading as to the total extent of the forest wealth 

 and resources of the State. 



Hitherto this Department has made no effort to secure accurate returns from 

 the sawmills outside the Adirondack and Catskill counties, this information being 

 obtainable at intervals from the report of the United States Census. From the 

 latter it appears that the total forest output of New York for the year 1899 was: 



Ft. B. M. 



Spruce ... . 255,939,000 



Hemlock . . 314,191,000 



White Pine 122,756,000 



Other conifers . . . 5,950,000 



Hardwoods 207,976,000 



Spruce (pulp-mills) 199,520,325 



Poplar (pulp-mills) 17,630,586 



Other species (pulp-mills) 5,196,834 



Total 1,129,159,745 



