436 REPORT OF THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



No. 9. Fourth Lake Compartment, Township 5. — The small amount of 

 timber included in this compartment is tributary to the eastern end of Fourth 

 Lake, one of the Fulton Chain of Lakes. This timber could be taken to the 

 Raquette Lake Railroad and loaded upon cars at Eagle Bay, as some of the 

 timber standing directly alongside of it, on the west side of the west line of 

 Townships 5 and 41, has already been taken out that way; or it could be taken 

 over the divide and to Upper Brown's Tract Pond. It could also be very 

 cheaply and easily taken to the small mill located near Fifth Lake, and the 

 stumpage would probably find ready purchasers in the owners of this mill to 

 supply the local demand. Good log roads have been constructed directly up 

 to the west line of Township 5, leading to both of the points mentioned, and, 

 although this compartment is small, it is thought that the stumpage could be 

 very readily disposed of for its full value, on account of its convenience to these 

 points for manufacture or shipment. There is not a sufficient quantity of timber 

 standing on the compartment to warrant any great expense for removal, and if 

 it could be sold to the local manufacturers for a reasonable price this would be 

 the best way to dispose of it. 



No. 10. Big Moose Compartment, Township 41. — The timber standing on 

 this compartment is all tributary to the North Branch of the Moose River via 

 Moose Lake. If this tract were lumbered, and the timber taken out by waterway, 

 it would have to pass through Big Moose Lake, and so on down to some^ of the 

 manufacturing establishments below. The high hills surrounding the compartment 

 make an attempt to take any portion of the timber to Raquette waters inadvisable, 

 except perhaps a small portion near Otter" Pond. Even this would have to be 

 taken up over a very heavy grade, and could undoubtedly be removed cheaper by 

 hauling down the stream. The timber standing in this watershed in Compartment 

 6, Township 40, could go the same way. 



The timber could best be taken out by being hauled directly to the eastern 

 end of Big Moose Lake. It would be possible to drive logs down the outlet of 

 the Lower Sister Pond into Big Moose Lake by improving the stream for that 

 purpose and erecting a flood dam at the outlet, but it would not be advisable 

 to do this for the comparatively small amount of timber tributary to these ponds. 

 The hauling distance is short, and when the logs are once loaded on the sleighs, 

 if they are to be driven down the stream below Moose Lake, it would be better to 

 haul them directly to the lake and land them on the ice, inclosing them with 

 booms to keep them from being scattered when the ice breaks up. They could 

 be started down the lake in the early spring, as soon as the ice went out, with- 

 out having to wait until they were driven down the Two Sisters stream, thereby 



