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urements by species, I am able to commend highly the intelligence and industry 

 with which the work was conducted. Whether the working plans are ever used or 

 not, the value of the statistics and knowledge of forest conditions thus obtained 

 will amply offset the expense. It is unnecessary here to give any of the results, 

 facts and figures obtained by this survey, as this information will soon be published 

 in full by the United States Forestry Division. A bulletin relating to this particular 

 work, giving the results in detail and furnishing an intelligent, conservative working 

 plan for the management of that township, will soon be printed at Washington and 

 sent free to any applicant. 



For the benefit of some of our good forestry people who deprecate any sugges- 

 tion that implies the cutting of a single tree, it should be said that the working plan 

 under consideration does not necessitate forest destruction in any way. Whatever 

 cutting may be recommended will tend to an improvement of the forest, an increase 

 in the volume of timber, a greater product, and a permanent revenue. 



ProdQCtion of AdirondacI^ Forests. 



Under a provision of the State forestry law the Superintendent of Forests is 

 required to collect annually from the various sawmills and pulpmills statistics show- 

 ing their annual product, so far as it is composed of timber taken from the Adiron- 

 dack and Catskill regions. I commenced the compilation and publication of this 

 class of statistics in 1890, and since that time they have appeared regularly in the 

 annual reports of the Department. Of late years Mr. A. B. Strough, of your office, 

 has rendered valuable assistance in the collection and tabulation of this important 

 information, enabling me to devote more time to other duties. 



As the reports from the various mills, showing their annual output, cannot well 

 be made until some time after the close of the year, I am unable to give the figures 

 for 1900. But, for the reason just stated, the lumber and pulpwood statistics for 

 1899 were not obtainable in time for the report of that year, and so I insert them 

 now. As I have explained in previous reports, these statistics are not based on mere 

 estimates. They may be accepted as reliable, because they are furnished in every 

 instance from the office of the various firms, companies or individuals, the figures 

 being taken from their books or based on their log contracts. 



These statistics are of value not only to the trade, but they invite the attention 

 of all who are interested in our woodlands and whatever may relate to them. As 

 the acreage of the Adirondack forests is well known, these figures indicate the per- 

 centage of that territory from which the merchantable timber is removed each year. 



