New-York tribune., 1891-03-06
FOR PRESERVING THE ADIRoNDACKs


ry-STN ATOR WARNER MILLER'S ARGUMENT BE
FORE COMMITTEES or THE LEGISLATURES
Albany. March . (SpeclaD.-Thc Senate Chamber to
night was crowded with people who went there to near
ex senator Warner Miller. Dr. Alfred l.. LOOMS. Fores'
CommissIOnor Kncvals and Others state their Views
upon the various Adirondack forest preservation bll'
now before the Legislature. The Senate Finance Com
mlttce and tie Assembly Committee on Lands and
Forestry listened 10 these arguments Ex-senator
Miller who made the first speech advocated the pi''
age Of bill drawn up By the Adirondack Forest frcS
ciyailon Association, creating new Forest tomml~
,loncr, with power 10 buy about 21OOOOo acres ol
forest lands I'm the Adirondack region for forest
preserve. said Mr.. Miller:
Mr Chairman. have not come here to Oppose tho
bl OF the Forest Commission. but To speak In support
of our For ten Yeas the attention OF IN" p'op
has been called the great loss the state Is sunnH
by the dcnudlton OF the forest region in the AdrIac"
counties IL wa, first argued that all the lands IL
tho Adirondack region should purchased AMI that th
state should not permit trees to bo cut down. YET
when this theory put practical test II was founa
that no Legislature would make the appropriations
necessary 20 buy such blocks o land A. would
T.. r,ouircd The would DO too great Five yrars
AGO when a largo numb,r Of Ncw-YogA gentlemen were
advocating the purchase Of tn" wond-. said that the
pcoolr of New York. represented In their IcSa'urc
woi never consent the purchase OF the AdirondacA
forests outright; that Is, to the expenditure oi
nine or ten millions Of dollars Nor did l
hclcvo that IL would be- wise 10 do 80 also sId 'ht
believed the forests should l." used ~ our "hat H'u
r, namely a. of income and that this mctho0
,ond be- used without is costing an enormous amount
that the State fore.t region would still be sanitaun
and A source OF income and that the rivers would be
prcs rved think that II the general judgment no"
We have now the Adirondack region the hnest iorc'
| preserve In the United States. IL i no.
! c>cellcd in q rnany The Black Forest anc
the Norway cannot be compared with IT, nor car
| IN. forests Of Canadl be compared with II,
We favor system by which the state can get forest
| lands at a small Roughly sicaNing, there are
7go 900 acres in the region which We propose to In
ude n the Adirondack Park. or these acres lfVVoo'
acre. arc ores; lands LAUNDERING has been done over
sH 900 acres. $1,000 acres are now owned by INC
state Il Is believed that there are within the unit
of the PARK 800 900 acres which the Sttc to"'u mo-
think O. taking The and belongs to private sport
inc clubs There $50 600 o cleared lahd wch
a., wond not want now as 10 would take many yciis u
,cfore,t them. Taxing the acres have mentioned
We should have lcft .Q00,o00 acre" to buy
The cost OF the land i bought outright. In my luug
mont would be- - 900 900. suggest that in the pur
chase NJ tn, snd the state should take II subject e
enc night OF thSowncr, 10 tie cNcrgrecnS, the spruce
,ine,. hemlock down twelve inches, ana VIII" th''
eorcenient the land could BE- bought Tor ri an acre
r. tlng that q, basis. the cost of the PARK No"u o
q, 600 COO II the Site shond tax Itself h''Ioh
c,r for the purpose preserving the sources OF oul
,r.,,,s | do not think you would be blamed
T. has occurred to me that as the stat
T. 70 receive $500 900 from Congress- he money
,ould b. used for purchase OF these forest ahu'
,,cve That IN twenty-five years the State would be re
itc an income Of 50 coo 900 year from these Adron
dcE forests or enough pay the cost OF our Tree cana
,.tam The bill does l!oyde for taxing woods by rsh
Of tn.nca, domain thInk that any Oil "hch coe' no
contain that Will amount 70 nothing II snyE''hs Is %
done to this forest territory 1t must be done III
the next two qhTee yca.s.
Dr. Alfred L. LoomIs followed with an appeal to the
committee to preserve the forests as sanltanum
set e!al ether speeches were then made.