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into Raquette Lake, thereby very materially shortening the log haul for the 

 timber in the extreme distant points of this compartment; but as these lakes 

 and streams are owned by private parties and used as private preserves, it is not 

 probable that the construction of clams or the improvement of streams would be 

 allowed, although if the water was properly handled no appreciable damage 

 to the timber standing on the shores of the lakes need be clone. 



Much of the timber included in this compartment would of necessity be 

 compelled to pass through these private tracts in order to reach Raquette Lake, 

 necessitating the constructing of a log road across them. The timber tributary 

 to Death Brook in Township 6, on the east side of South Bay, would naturally 

 be landed in the lake, near the outlet of the brook, and could be stored in 

 booms at that point. The timber tributary to the branches of Otter Brook and 

 Brown's Tract Inlet could easily be landed in Otter Bay, where it could be boomed 

 and held until it was desired to remove it, without in any way interrupting 

 steamboat navigation, or tourist travel. 



All the timber in Cedar River Compartment (see lumbering map) could be 

 brought to Raquette Lake via the inlet and outlet of Sagamore Lake, if it were 

 deemed advisable to do so, but it would all have to pass through the Sagamore 

 private preserve, and all timber above Mohegan Lake, if brought to Raquette 

 Lake, would have to pass through the Mohegan private preserve. The question 

 of hauling or driving logs through these or any other private properties can not be 

 discussed here. That is a matter for owners of private property and the proper 

 State officials to decide. 



No. 4. Bear Pond Compartment, in Township 6.— The greater part of the 

 timber on this compartment is naturally tributary to Raquette Lake by way of 

 the outlets of Bear Pond and Slim Pond and thence down the Marion River. 

 This stream, however, is the main thoroughfare for navigation by steamboats 

 and rowboats, and as navigation begins as soon as the ice goes out in the spring- 

 there would undoubtedly be a great deal of just opposition to the driving of 

 logs from the many interests which use this river as the only feasible means of 

 travel between Raquette Lake and Blue Mountain Lake. Another reason why it 

 would not be advisable to drive the timber down the Marion River is that the 

 south and west winds, which usually prevail in the spring, blow directly up the 

 bay and into the mouth of the river, and might seriously hamper or prevent the 

 log driver from getting his logs down to the mouth of the river and properly 

 confined in booms in the lake. 



Because of these facts it would be cheaper for the lumberman and more 

 satisfactory for all concerned to haul logs or timber — not only from this com- 



