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The work is done by four men working as a crew or unit. Two 

 men are chaining and the other two are calipering, each caliper 

 man covering the half of the strip on his side of the center where 

 the chain lies. The head chainman has a compass and the front 

 end of the chain is attached to the back of his belt. He runs the 

 compass and produces a line from station to station. Such lines 

 are parallel and the result is a succession of parallel lines across 

 the area. The chainmen together measure distance and tally the 

 chains. They also note topography, location of streams and roads, 

 different types of growth and other items of value. The measure- 

 ments made by the caliper men are called off by species and di- 

 ameters and tallied by the rear chainman. 



The north boundary of lot 1, Division 3, was run out and the 

 southwest corner of the lot located. The line was continued to 

 " Cone Rock," and this point also entered on the map. The town 

 line between Shandaken and Denning has been a matter of con- 

 tention. The State Engineer has, however, accepted the 1892 

 retracing of the Cockburn line of 1784 as constituting the bound- 

 ary between the towns of Shandaken and Denning. Cone Rock 

 is at the westerly end of the so-called Davis line of 1846, which 

 has been proved to be no boundary of any property whatever. 

 The town line was not traced for lack of time; two points on it 

 were located, one at either end, and these connected by a straight 

 line (see map). 



From the survey stations strip estimates were run one-quarter 

 of a mile (20 chains) apart, each strip being one chain wide. 

 These strips crossed the main ridge being almost at right angles 

 to the town line (bearing S. 30 degrees W. and N. 30 degrees E., 

 respectively) . All balsam fir and hemlocks seven inches and over 

 in diameter at breast-height, and all hardwoods thirteen inches 

 and over in diameter at breast-height, were calipered and re- 

 corded. The lines were run with a hand compass and distances 

 measured with a 66-foot steel tape. Eighteen such strips were 

 run, covering a total of 170.17 acres, about 5 per cent, of the 

 total area of 3,429.04 acres. The acreage was kept distinct for 

 the two types (see forest description) and for burns and cut-over 

 areas. Alienated areas were not estimated. There were : 



