46 REPORT OF THE FOREST, FTSH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



Architect, and have been paid for. They are located at Burnham's Point, Cedar 

 Point, Canoe Point and Picnic Point in Eel Bay, Watterson's Point, Mary Island, 

 Kring's Point, Cedar Island and DeVVolf Point. 



It has been the custom of campers and excursionists visiting State lands to build 

 fires to make coffee and cook their meals. They have not always used proper care 

 in putting out their lire, and in several instances considerable damage has resulted 

 from the fire spreading to the adjacent timber and buildings. The Forest, Fish and 

 Game Commission has this year built fifteen small fire ovens, at an average cost of 

 about twelve dollars ($12) each, on State lands most frequented. The experiment 

 has proved a popular one ; the ovens have been extensively used, and in consequence 

 no fires have occurred the past season. 



In the last few years the number of small craft running on the St. Lawrence River 

 in the summer season has greatly increased. Many cottagers now own and manage 

 their own naphtha or electric launches. These small boats run in shallow waters, and 

 accidents are not infrequent. The Commissioners in June last purchased fifty small 

 buoys at an expense of $230, and placed them at the disposal of responsible cottage 

 owners, taking their receipt therefor, upon an agreement that the buoys should be 

 properly cared for, put into the water at the opening of each season to mark a hid- 

 den rock or shoal in shallow waters, and taken up again at the close of the season. 

 Many requests for buoys have been granted, and the policy adopted by the Commis- 

 sion in this regard is highly commended. 



The growing popularity of the Thousand Islands as a summer resort is unques- 

 tioned, and the policy of the State to provide points of land and islands for use of 

 the public is much appreciated by thousands of visitors. 



The sum available in the St. Lawrence Reservation fund at the beginning of the 

 present fiscal year, October i, 1900, was $5,201.09, a sum more than sufftcient to meet 

 all requirements. For the coming fiscal year a small appropriation should be placed 

 at the disposal of the Commission for properly superintending and maintaining the 

 lands and buildings and making such repairs as are found necessary from time to 

 time. 



