New-York tribune., 1884-12-29
THE NORTH WOODS.
HOW THE STATE INVITES PLUMBER AND
ENCOURAGES PAUPERISM

FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBUSRI
NORTH ELBA, N. Y, Dec. 24.-It Is well
known that the State systematically negecs its lands In
the Adirondack region and leaves them to general spola-
t0n II Is not however often thought OF or dweit upon
that this neglect Is efficient for educating large
numbers OF people in kind OF pauperisn and commun-
isin and In dishonesty. There Ia very considerable
population which IL supported chiefly the products or
the State lands taken without permission and without
cost to the consumer Some villages and neghborh0ods
have, according 10 the accounts OF the Inhabitants them
selves, very little income from any other These
people timber from the State lands for shingles lath
lumber and building materials OF various kinds which
they manufacture AMI sell openly. Very valuable spruce
and hari wood timber is being cut the men
who have the contracts and are telling the trees) for
sounding g-boarls for pianos ami for various kinds OF
furniture to be used by manufacturers in New-Yor city
and these woods supplied chielyso these men say
from the state lands The people say everywhere that
everybody obtains fue and fencing material from tho
lands OF the STATE ana It would be hard 10 nd any one
Who considered this wrong Or 0f the slightest Import
anoe.
II Is curious feature OF this matter that the State Of
New York should hanialn % considerable body ~ nor
people nt tho Iubc expense and that these ara hardy
and able bodied persons, we'll equipped Tor self
support any other elias, ~ her olons There aoen
10 bo why these people should not earn what
they live uponi nni n they were forbidden 10 depend
upon plllagng the public domain largo proportion o
tHnin would pfObhhy Hr0N living IN ptl'l phla
c0unypnd bls would mako u fnr easier toptoaete ana
prDect the wilderness thcto Ia NJ present larIcf
population IN many places than Tho Vcinago con loglt-
matoy support II Ia worth noting that tho Ntnte Il sup
porting the very people who .arc engaged In destroying
one OF her most valuable possessions. 1t would be
cheaper for the state to- support these people In aims
houses reservations without requiring labor OF any
kind from them.
In many places It that the preyailngi n not the
universal public sentiment approves or lustihcs tho ap
propratlon OF s,ac property to private use and that
these practices have the sanction OF the churches moral
lists IN religions teachers Of the region II IA not strange
thar where TIE members O religious society obtain al
their fuel hesldes cOrdwOOd TO seD rom the state
lands thcy should take heiaxes and haycia day social
chOpping now and then for the minister AMI u he
should preach ON the proper use OF pholc property ne
would not DE incliued 10 chiae his hOck Tor any forest
depredauous long as t1e sermon was prepared III
study nicely warmed with fuel from The state woods
II IS said by the people that srne OF TIE great leather
state lapds by pcelpg he bark for their tanner Im8
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