FOREST, FISH AXD GAME COMMISSIONER. I07 



birch, maple, beech, and basswood, and in this order as to quantity. There 

 is also a small proportion, but very small, of elm, cherry and ash. 

 There is no oak, chestnut or hickory on the Adirondack plateau. But the 

 hardwoods sawed in the mills throughout the rest of the State include a 

 large proportion of the latter species. 



The 112.069,951 feet of pine reported is almost exclusively white pine, 

 especiallv so in the Adirondacks. In other parts of the State there are 

 small quantities of Norway, pitch and yellow pine, but if cut they did not 

 probably exceed five per cent, of the total output of pine. The tamarack 

 (American larch) grows freely in some parts of the Adirondacks, especially 

 on low swampy lands, but as yet it is not used in the sawmills to any notice- 

 able extent. It is cut occasionally by farmers to furnish frame timber 

 for barns or houses, for which purpose this species is well adapted. White 

 cedar, as already mentioned, is used largely for shingles, and a great many 

 trees of this species are cut every year for telegraph and telephone poles. 

 But the timber removed from the forest for the latter purpose does not 

 enter into the returns from the mills, and as the work is done by jobbers 

 and farmers we are unable to arrive definitely at this particular, but impor- 

 tant, product. 



The figures showing the forest product consumed by the pulpmills do 

 not indicate the extent of that industry in this State, for many of them 

 obtain a part, or all, of this stock of wood from Canada. There are 87 

 pulpmills in New York. Wisconsin comes next, with 38; then Maine, with 

 30. and Xew Hampshire, with 10. In daily capacity New York leads also, 

 with 3.561 tons; Maine comes next, with 2,185 tons; then Wisconsin, 1,404 

 tons, and Xew Hampshire, 1,048 tons. The daily capacity of the New York 

 mills is divided into 2,459 tons of ground, and 1,105 °t chemical pulp. 

 The mills consumed in 1905, a total of 1,301,986 cords of wood, of which 



580 cords were cut in this State. The total production of pulp for that 

 vear was 977,313 tons. The average stumpage value of spruce pulpwood 

 in the Adirondacks is about $2.60 per cord, the price varying with its 

 accessibility, density of stand, and proximity of a desirable stream or 

 railroad. 



