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The pulp-wood in the foregoing table is given in the census returns as 363,425 

 cords of Spruce, 32,114 cords of Poplar and 9,466 cords of other species, which 

 are converted here into feet on a basis of 549 feet (board measure) per cord. As 

 the total output of the Adirondack and Catskill counties in 1901 — the largest in 

 any of the last ten years — amounted to 659,382,520 feet, it leaves 469,777,225 

 feet as the lumber output of the outlying counties. 



Aside from the Adirondack and Catskill forests, it is doubtful if the woodlands 

 of this State produced 469,777,225 feet of lumber in 1899, and we are forced to 

 the conclusion that the returns for this industry, as made to the Census Bureau 

 by its agents, included some overestimates. 



Be this as it may, however, the information contained in the Twelfth Census 

 relating to the lumber and pulp industry of New York is extremely interesting, 

 giving all the statistics pertaining to forest products with a wealth of detail that 

 makes the report valuable to every one interested in- these lines of business. From 

 the censuses of the preceding years it appears that the lumber output of New 

 York passed its maximum years ago. In 1850 it was the leading State of the 

 Union in this industry ; in i860 it was passed by Pennsylvania, and in 1900 it 

 dropped to twelfth place on the list. But it still retains its supremacy in the 

 manufacture of wood-pulp and paper, having a long lead of any other State in 

 the magnitude of these industries. 



Partition of Lands. 



The printed land-list, published in 1901, is an octavo of 367 pages, containing 

 a schedule of the 5,934 different lots or tracts constituting the Forest Preserve. 

 In this list there are sixty-one parcels, amounting to 16,088 acres, in which the 

 State has an undivided interest, or joint ownership, amounting to 7,478 acres. In 

 the past year a partition of interest was effected in two cases, the land being 

 divided so that the State received a tract of equal acreage and value, set off by 

 itself, and in which the State has the sole ownership. 



One of these partitions was made with the Raquette Falls Land Company 

 with whom the State owned an undivided ten forty eighths in certain lots situated 

 in Townships 25 and 26, Totten and Crossfield Purchase, Essex County; the 

 other was made with Charles A. Darby, with whom the State owned an undivided 

 one half interest in Lot 85, Paradox Tract, Essex County. Before making any 

 division the lands were inspected by Forester Sterling, who filed in the office a 

 report in which he described fully the amount and kinds of standing timber, and 

 submitted maps showing the location and topography. As Lot 85 is situated on 



