New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-01-07
broke through the ice The girls bodies taken TO
homes OF their parents.
PRESER VIEG THE FORESTS.
THE DANGER FROM THE ADIRoNDACKs.
THE PROPOSAL TO BUY TIE LAND oPPosED-A
LUMBER COMPANY AT WORK

LUMBER COMPANY AT WORK.
lFR0M THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIDUsEl
ALBANY, Jan. G.-AmOng the subjects of in
tcres that will be Onsdered by the Legislature Is the
proposal that the state shall buy the Adirondack forests
for the purpose OF protecting the watersuppy OF the
Hudson, the Mohawk, and other rivers In the state
committee OF Senators Of the last Legislature Will
soon submit a report on the result Of an tnves
tigation OF the subject. They have visited tho
Adirondack region, they have listened 10 the
testimony of persons who interested In the preserVa
on OF woods and they have determined to oppose any
proposition to buy the lands. In effect they believe t@
If the state shond undertake TO buy tho lands the price
o: the ground would suddenly be raised and the state be
made 70 pay more than its actual value So large an
amount of money would he required TO buy the land
under such circumstances that it is their opinion II
would be bad pocy for the State to enter upon such an
eLterprise.
ESTIMATED COST OF THE LAND.
Congressman Dorsbeimer at secret meeting or the
Chamber of Commerce in NewYork estimated that the
land would cost 81 900 600. Both the Republican Leg
stature and the Democratic Governor have determined
to earn party capital by keeping the expenditures OF the
state at low point this year 1t would, therefore, seem
q desperate undertaking for Mr. Dorshelmer ana
his associates TO attempt TO pass law APP
propriatng Sll,O0OOOO Tor tue purchase OF the
forests It ia understood here that Mr.. Dorshotmer
ard those interested with him IN the
preservation OF the forests that it would
he hopeless 20 ask the Legislature To take such course
Their plan, It ia said. Is to nave law passed creating
commission somewhat similar to the Niagara Falls Com
mission They would have Adirondack Reservation"
as well IA Niagara Falls Reservation" They would
empower commissioners 10 apprse lands in the AdOn-
daC REGION and buy them the state They would Az
tlOrize tie nssiOnerS 10 ssuc bonds III payment FOR
the lands purchased. The statement made at the
Chamber OF Commerce meeting that capitalists would
eagerly Duy any bonds OF the state of NewYork
FOREST LAND OWNED BY THE STATE.
Nevertheless many members of the Legislature will OPP
nose any purchase OF tho Adirondack lands holding that
40 much aud is lapng 10 the state through the
failure of its 10 pay taxes that IN few years all
the lands In the region will he owned by the state. Ten
years ago the state owned only few thousand acres OF
land in the region it now owns 10000 acres OF the
100 10 OF this amount 900 apsel to the state the
present year. yerpauck Colvn, who for tcu wears past
has been superintendent OF the Adirondack Survey OPP
poses the proposition to bny the lands He even thinks
the present agitation unfortunate one as tending 10
arouse people to tue vlu- OF the aud and thu8 perhaps
iniuce them to pay the back taxes due upon Jnc' ne
said to-day: am not in favor OF buying the AdOndacA
lands IN lump iOr Tue 9ta nor "oui l'ut .,o ~ 3 III IN
attitude of ANNOUNCING that II Intended 10 buy the
lands. such an announcement would unlonDeIy Vastly
raise the price OF the lands II will even lead some people
buy lands Tor speculative purposes. might he In
acts protect the water supply
Of OF tue rivers. The way to get these lands Wout
be to have them bought Ivy secret agent w" now nave
$4,000 year appropriated tor the purpose. | would
also nave Forestry Commission empowered to protect
the lands belonging to the stat rherc i' no reason,
also. why such Commission should not have power 10
fOrd the destruction of forests on private Lands when IL
might he apparent that the cutting down Or tue trees
would change the ell r1cier OF the lana as 10 aNect
the value of other property
is there not lumber company ar work c'tlnS down
trees along the st. Regis KlyrrF' he was ASKED
There Is. II is Hurd. HOtrhk1ss MCFARLAND OF
Bridgeport, Conn. They are building railroad rom
Mora in Franklin Comfy the line OF the Lake Cham
plain and Oglrnsbulg Railroad. u 81. Reds Falls. dts
lance miles. They have their mills there, hui
they cutting timber fol- miles ahead. evrnh far a. P
smiths ~ Regis Luxe Paul has attempted TO pay the
land b has yet able to do They own OOOOoO
acres Iaud owned 10y the state Il inieIningrd win
it, ST. Regis Fans looks Ike brisk Wr"tern lnm'rrlns
Their land only r)st them Tom - 10 80 an acre;
they have large amount OF property Ihey
claim tu have Sl,OoO,OOO Invested Aud yet whO
can stop them clearing the timber Df these lands
They it, The worst damage they WI do VIII be I"
drain out some twenty miles uf inarack forest along the
IT. Regis ami IN axe IL a dismal swamp
THE DANGER FROM FIRES.
Orsou s. Phelps Ola Mountain Phelps" as heis known
otouri, in the AdrOud region gives warning that the
forests OF the Adlroudacks are danger from fines
than the axe of the umberman In letter addressed 10
Mr. Coin and dated at Kernc Flats. December 81, 1888,
ne SAYS: hope yOu big folks down there will not
get as bad OFF folks did in Old colony times OF
Salem wi, ,hCTaft. don't think the 'hdulrr ot Com
mcce VIII malri rain stop II raining upon these Did
molntI aims. Now, Mr.. GOWN, there Is cause, and
trir are causes and effects Ihe Of forest
fires Is q rst-claSs drOdth ID midsummer Ihtt We have
not had twruty-uine years. II that drUuth had oc-
cured any time for hr'e years past, the effect
would have been great part Of the Al,
iroudack forests would have been burned
Jobs but no surely. there was not one man in the
woods to set then where there il one hundred nova
DAYS Whoever lives to see such season a. lSl3 or
1851 will see the grlndeSt Old suIdg" IN these Old
mountains they saw, ana the Chamber Oh CoueIte
won't stop II, either