PART II. 



Limbering Plan 



Introduction. 



In studying this lumbering plan for Townships 5, 6 and 41, it should be borne 

 in mind that the greater part of all the timber on these townships is naturally 

 tributary to Raquette Lake in the center of Township 40, and, from a lumbering 

 view-point, this fact so closely binds together all four townships that this plan 

 may properly be called a supplement to the one already made for Township 40. 



There are a number of small watersheds within the limit of these three town- 

 ships, however, from which the timber, although naturally tributary by stream 

 descent to other waters than Raquette Lake, could be brought back to this timber 

 center without any very great additional cost. The several advantages mentioned 

 in the preceding report on Township 40, such as the railroad facilities for bringing 

 supplies, men, etc., steamboat lines, telegraphic and telephone conveniences for 

 making possible a quick connection with a purchasing point, apply in a degree 

 to Townships 5, 6, and 41. Raquette Lake railroad station (Durant), being very 

 nearly in the center of the four townships, would furnish an advantageous location 

 for a general lumbering headquarters for distributing supplies, paying men, etc. 



This plan has as its object the best interests of the people of the entire State. 

 In it is included all such information and recommendations necessary to facilitate 

 the removal of the timber in the cheapest manner possible, and only such 

 improvements are recommended as will materially add to the price which the 

 State would ordinarily receive for its stumpage. 



It is not necessary that branch railroad tracks or mills should be made a per- 

 manent feature, or that the parties constructing them should be granted a charter 

 for an unlimited length of time. Permission to make these improvements should 

 be granted only on condition that any unnecessary damage should be deemed 

 a sufficient reason for discontinuing the charter. Then, if the operations in and 

 around the mill, or on the railroad branches, were not being performed in a 

 satisfactory manner, or in compliance with the regulations governing their use, 

 they could at once be summarily stopped by the State authorities without recourse 



to litigation. 



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