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the North Branch of Moose River via Seventh and Eighth Lakes and Fulton 

 Chain of Lakes or to Raquette Lake via Brown's Tract Inlet. The timber 

 situated north of the divide or watershed between the Fulton Chain of Lakes 

 and the Brown's Tract Inlet could be taken to either Raquette Lake or to the 

 Raquette Lake Railway at Upper Brown's Tract Pond by having some slight 

 up-grade hauling from the extreme western portion of the compartment, near 

 the west line of Township 41 (see lumbering map). 



The timber which is tributary to Seventh and Eighth Lakes could most 

 cheaply be delivered to market by constructing a branch railway track from the 

 Raquette Lake Railway, on the line shown on the lumbering map, to the north- 

 eastern part of Eighth Lake, erecting steam jack works there for loading logs 

 from the water to cars. The timber naturally tributary to Seventh Lake could 

 be hauled in the winter to the south end of Eighth Lake, landed upon the ice 

 there, and floated in the spring through the lake to the point where the pro- 

 posed railroad branch touches the northeastern end of the lake. The particular 

 reason for bringing the branch railroad to the northeastern end of the lake is 

 that the prevailing Adirondack winds in the spring have a tendency to move logs 

 and floodwood to the north and east shores of lakes. A study of the greater 

 accumulations of driftwood in those portions of the Adirondack lakes will furnish 

 convincing proof of this statement. 



The timber in this compartment in the Seventh and Eighth Lakes watershed 

 could all be hauled with teams to Raquette Lake or Upper Brown's Tract Pond, 

 but this would necessitate a long and very costly log haul, and would con- 

 sequently cause a lower price to be offered for the stumpage. All the timber in 

 this part of the compartment is naturally tributary by water course to the North 

 Branch of the Moose River via Fulton Chain of Lakes, but as the Fulton Chain 

 of Lakes have been used for years as a public highway for steamboat naviga- 

 tion, and as there are some very narrow passages between the different lakes, 

 the stream between First Lake and Old Forge would inevitably become blocked 

 by logs if they were taken this way. Moreover, all this timber would have to 

 be towed a long distance through the lakes by steamboat, and the booms would 

 have to be opened and the logs slowly worked through the narrow passages, a 

 method involving a considerable expense to the lumberman and no small damage 

 to many other interests. It would therefore be better to remove this timber by 

 a branch railroad constructed from Upper Brown's Tract Pond on the Raquette 

 Lake Railway to the northeastern end of Eighth Lake. 



The Upper Brown's Tract Pond would furnish an excellent point upon which 

 to land the logs on the ice in winter from the Brown's Tract Inlet portion of 



