44-0 REPORT OF THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



point for manufacture by team and rail. There should be a slight difference in 

 freight rates between this point and Raquette Lake and the New York Central 

 Railroad at Clearwater Junction. 



Considered as a general proposition, however, it is most advisable to allow 

 the construction of a mill at Sucker Brook Bay for the manufacture of the 

 whole amount of mature timber tributary thereto. 



The stumpage on these tracts should be disposed of in one of three ways: 

 Either by selling the timber to be manufactured at a mill erected as advised at 

 Sucker Brook Bay; by selling the timber to parties and by them to be driven down 

 the different streams to points of manufacture; or by selling the timber to parties 

 and by them to be taken out on the railroad to other points for manufacture. 



The consolidation of several compartments in one sale would have a tendency 

 to cause better work to be done in removing the timber, since the greater the 

 amount involved in a possible loss from non-observance of the rules or violation 

 of the contract the more careful the contractors would be to see that no unnec- 

 essary damage was caused to the forests. 



No timber can be driven from Raquette Lake to the mills located on the 

 Raquette River below, unless the improvements and the erection of a dam at 

 the foot of the lake are allowed. 



If the improvements advised in the working plan for Township 40 for the 

 purpose of making it possible to drive timber down the Raquette River to 

 the many markets below were not made, or the right to make them and use the 

 stream for that purpose guaranteed by the State, this alone would effectually 

 bar all prospective bidders who have large plants located upon the stream below 

 from taking the timber to their mills in the cheapest and most economical 

 manner. Any improvements of this kind which can not fail to have a decided 

 effect upon stumpage prices should certainly be allowed. 



The timber stumpage upon Townships 5, 6 and 41, excepting some small 

 portions which are advantageously located for lumbering cheaply, is not worth 

 as much per standard to the purchasers as the timber upon Township 40, even 

 if the improvements advised were allowed to be made, for the reason that it 

 will cost the parties removing this timber more per standard to bring it to some 

 convenient point for manufacture or shipment. It is obvious that where a tract 

 to be lumbered is distant from the base of supplies it is more costly to get in 

 the necessary supplies for performing the work. 



Special attention is directed to these points, as it is only for the reason that 

 the improvements advised would add very materially to the prices which the 

 State could expect to receive for the stumpage that such recommendations are made. 



