41 4 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF 



Raquette River, which continues navigable to Raquette Falls, halfway to the 

 southern boundary of the property. 



Centrally located at Axton, accessible, as described, by road and river, and also 

 within a four-mile drive from the steamboat landing of Lower Saranac Lake, is a 

 fully equipped establishment of dwelling houses and outbuildings, where the forest 

 manager may be located and where classes of students may be accommodated dur- 

 ing summer courses, a farm of 200 acres furnishing a desirable basis for logging 

 operations, for the establishment of nurseries, etc. 



The topography of the property is varied so as to offer opportunity of demon- 

 strating various modes of treatment — high elevations, slopes of varying aspect, 

 valleys and river bottom lands being represented. 



Less than one-half the property is virgin timber, the other half more or less 

 culled of pine and spruce, a small portion burned-over lands, where artificial 

 reforestation may be practised. 



A water power of eighty feet fall, in which a quarter interest goqs with the prop- 

 erty, may offer opportunity for establishing small wood manufactures to use up 

 inferior wood materials usually wasted. 



The property has been secured at a very reasonable price ($165,000), and appears 

 desirable in every respect for the purpose which it is to serve. 



As soon as the property is turned over to the College and the weather permits, it 

 is proposed to make a forest survey and ascertain the amount of timber standing 

 and the annual growth, as a basis for working plans and to determine the amount of 

 material which should be cut annually. For this purpose a small amount of the 

 original appropriation of $10,000 has been reserved. Active operations in laying 

 out roads, in establishing nurseries and beginning logging operations will have to 

 wait until other appropriations become available. 



The following disbursements have been made for the quarter year: 



Salaries, ----------- $2,666 64 



Clerical assistance, -------- 37 7° 



Library and demonstration objects, - - . - - - - 463 88 



Office fittings, --------- 212 33 



Stationery, printing, postage, telegraph and express, - - - 273 03 



Contingencies, traveling expenses, 677 59 



Nursery work and forest expenses, ------ 24 50 



$4,355 67 



Balance remaining unexpended, -------- 5,644 33 



$10,000 00 



