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The investment in plant of the pulp and paper mills in New York is estimated at 

 $36,000,000, and their annual expenditure for wages at over $4,000,000. If to this 

 be added the large investment in the sawmill and lumber business, together with the 

 amount paid there, also, for wages, some idea may be obtained of the importance of 

 our forest product and its relation to the industrial interests of our State. 



In the tables showing the number of cords of wood consumed by the pulpmills, 

 the figures in some instances do not indicate the capacity of the mills, as a part of 

 the stock is obtained outside the State, and, for a like reason, some large pulpmills 

 do not appear in the list at all. 



The pulpmill at Palmer's Falls, Warren county, owned by the International Paper 

 Co., is the largest in the United States or Canada, a fact which is not indicated by 

 the amount of pulpwood obtained from the Adirondack forests. 



The Niagara Woodpulp Co., at Niagara Falls, uses Canadian wood only, and the 

 International Paper Company's mill, at the same place, gets its stock from Michigan 

 and Canada. The Kane's Falls Pulp Co., at Fort Ann, N. Y., obtains its entire stock 

 of pulpwood from Vermont. The Bayless Pulp and Paper Co., Binghamton, N. Y., 

 and the Gilbert & Bell mill at Waterford, N. Y., are stocked wholly from forests out- 

 side of our State. 



The production of the Adirondack forests for the year 1899, as shown by the fol- 

 lowing tables, is believed to be correct, the figures for each item having been 

 furnished by the respective manufacturers as taken from their office books. The 

 frequency with which the returns were made in round numbers is due to the fact that 

 the contracts for the year's stock of logs were made that way. 



