New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-04-01
THE STATE FORESTS.
PERMITS TO CUT AMONG THEM WITH
HELD.
STATE ENGINEER ADAMS REPORTS ADVERSELY
ON A RECOMMENDATION OF THE


ON A RECOMMENDATION OF THE
FOREST COMMISSION.
Albany March 3l-Some time ago the State
Forest Commission advertised for bids for contracts
allowing the cutting of certain timber In The Adj
rondacks As result of such advertising forty-one
permits 10 cut timber In the Adirondacks were
granted by the Forest Commission TO different peo-
ple subject TO the approval of the State Commits
eioner of the Land Office The following IS the form
of action taken by the commission in each case;
whereas The Morgan Lumber Company. OF Gens
Falls y. Y. has made application to CUT ah9 re-
move within three years from the first day of May,
isei the spruce timber on Palmers purchase gen
erai allotment lot 9, town of Wells. Mam IAN ,E
County and to pay to the State of New-NorK tne
enro Of 20 cents per market log trees TO be cut
less than twelve inches in diameter three feet from
the ground therefore. be II ,x-. ,
that the application Of the Morgan Lumber CON-
i f5s' &c S'A''''' ' ~
The forty-one resolutions granting SUCH permits
were considered by the Commissioners OF the Lana
Office at a meeting on March 9, and the question
was referred to State Engineer Adams Tor lhVesu-
CATION and report. The State Engineer has SUD-
rnitted long report, which will be read with IN
terest by those interested in forest preservation
In it he says:
The resolutions were referred for examinau,o1n
upon these points First as to whe!her IN cd ms
judgment. the trees covered by me P'OPUsG hr th
tracts should be removed; second; az 10 M!Iehv' "
method for their removal as iad aoMh ,h ny - 1.
Forest Commission is sufficient to project tne IT,
not removed, and. third as TO whe'her t"e Pi'0''
agreed upon are 1alr' - l., ,o,o,so ,orc,,ape the
policy OF the Forest Commission upon me question
Of cutting the standing spruce upon the iorest pre-
live TO all these would be in favor Of confirming this
policy which has been reached by the coninlsSIon
lTtr long consideration of the subject; when mas
The emphatic approval Of the Governor as the most
practical means OF attaining the emu Is sac '
the acquisition of more forest lana by tne Sttle,
which has the formal approval oil me Ailti.C ~,
Forestry Association passed at its meeting recently
hold In
some of our citizens whose business interests VII
Internationally be enhanced by putting Il INTO erect
and whose SAM interests they say will be alarm
ingly hurt by contrary action -, $500, t,,a,,r,or,
The board however. has asked my 1udgm nieDs
and mps to say no to the dst two IN p Sn
The standing spruce above twt,Ve laSeS no, be ~
moved from the forests owned by the state ana
the remaining trees would not be suihcehty PIE rSe
teced by this contract method OF lunDerims' ce
state now owns within the forest preserve ooVO
acres; most Of 1t IS virgin the tate hodngs are
scattered the length and breadth OF H. MAINTAIN ,
these tracts in their natural wildness. ana they
will continue to exert potent inhen S h 90, c ~.
water supply Of our canal systin, Wlio , ias and
he beginning OF the dimnution of the supply FOL
lows These for;y-one contracts cover oVgvV acIrS
Franklin, Essex. Warren and St Lawrence nearly
ali the watersheds feeding the streams mat supply
CUT oNei - nd hevond doubt from ridge after
ridge within these will be cut forty or NOR
trees OF legal size After being iumDerri M nG
limbs strong enough to bear up under the Durlefl
Of the next winters snow. and after a season
exDosure they are just in fl condition 10 uuin'
and fire may reach them from many sources
Once burned over and that tract has lost It's Naluc
forever as "A water cOnserNer III,
Annrove these contracts. and the llmpernl'h WIZ
have n right 10 remove their logs and they VIII 10
so at the least expense to Themselves. In"y VII
cut roads TO the streams which they VIII dam iel
driving and more trees Will De- e-acrlhctd NJ
Statement is made that spruce tract may pc
NUMBERED for its saving timber, AMI second crop
nav he cut in ten fifteen years. u Is ms
rnncr II Simply means that in ten years som" 81
the trees too srnaN to cut the hrst TIN" VIII ny
crown 10 twelve inches and over. But continue thiS
1rea,men, and soon the spruce Is all gone
I rcneat my Judgment IS. do not cut the TIMBER
Of any Kind from the state land, except what IS
vcccssarv for roadways other means of com
,ntnlcafion for the people There can be no ques-
ton thcn AZ TO water supply and that alone y
srtlic!ert reason, without appealing TO sehn-
I, yo.ild appear that the prices agree! upon are
,oir Vim ~ odds largely in favor OF tho plir-
chaser since he need not my the state one hpiilr
,u; no end Of .hree wears. the State really fur
rfsbino 81 much capital Cor the umbernians STOCK
~ % 90 200 feet be- cut from these 1000 acres
Of State land
When this communication OF state Engineer
Adams was read at the meeting Of the Commits
sioners OF the Land Office resolution was
adoD,ed referring the whole question to the LegiS-
lature in order that appropriate action in regard
10 additional legislation might be taken.