The sun., 1906-12-29
THE STATES LAND HOLDINGS.
sO,3If ACRES BOUGHT IN the
PRESENT YEAR.

Purchase OF 1000. 900 Adirondack Acres
Is Recommended BY Commissioner
WhipDle Change 90 Make Deer season
From sept 40 10 Oct. 81 Is Favored.
ALBANY, Dec. s--The addition by pur-
chase OF 200, 900 acres 70 the States holdings
in the Adirondacks il recommended by
State Forest, Fish and Game Commissioner
James s. Whipple in his annual report.
During the year 1906" the report Gays,
there was cut and taken from the wood
lands Of the Empire State over l,5O0-
OOO0O0 feet Of timber board measure; q
very large proportion OF that amount
was taken from the Adirondack Noun
tains. The soft woods are nearly all lum-
bered of; that is, that part which is fit to
cut. The value of all kinds OF lumber 10
daily increasing, and soon IL will be 30 great
that the numbering Of the hard wood in the
Adirondacks will be feasible, the price so
much exceeding freight rates and the cost
Of manufacture that the profits will warrant
the numbering OF the hard wood. II the
people OF the State allow that to occur.
and the hard woods are taken of, the protec-
ton OF the sources OF the rivers which rise
in that section OF the State will be destroyed
and it will be too late to repair the injury
The Land Purchasing Board has ma
terially added to the holdings Of the State,
during the year 1909 having purchased all
told about sOsil acres, making tho total
amount Of land held at this time by the
State 1870 200 acres. or that there are In
the Adirondacks LAS, IT'S acres, the balance,
l04,524 acres, being in the Catskills.
1t 10 recommended that the State reforest
1000 acres Of denuded Adirondack lands
the present year increasing the acreage
each year until the business OF reforesting
comprehends planting all denuded lands
owned by the State.
open season for deer Is favored. Now IL
extends from October 1 to November Is.
The report says: The amended law Is open
to two objections: First, it makes a space
OF thirty days between. the fishing and
hunting seasons. Trout fishing closes Au-
gust 81 and deer hunting commences Oc-
tober /. This Is Objectionable from the
standpoint of the hotel keeper, summer
visitor and guide in the Adirondack. While
it is true that a law to protect game and
fish cannot be- built on the line Of furnishing
work TO any one, yet if the same object can
be obtained by not interfering with the
pleasure or business interest OF any of our
people, this should be done.
Experience has proved beyond question
that great portion of the deer are killed
and taken in the fifteen days in November,
when usually there is snow on the ground.
To accommodate all persons and protect
the deer the open season should be from
September l8 TO October 81 inclusive
and the trout fishing season in the Adiron-
daok region should be from May / to Sep
tember is inclusive. That would bring
the fishing and hunting together, and ac-
commodate every one and save the
slaughter Of great many deer In the Adj
rondaok region.
1t is very desirable that law be en-
acted providing for "A license TO be paid
by every person using or carrying a gun
in the State of New York, the fee to be not
less than 81. A similar law is in force in
many States, from which is derived a very
large revenue. At the same time the law
should make provision for a fiat non-resi-
dence license Of not less than SIS nor more
than s25. The present retaliatory nom
residence license is of little consequence.
The prohibition relating to aliens should
be continued az now provided bv Law
THE law in relation to grouse and wood
cock should be amended to provide that
not more than six birds OF either kind can
be killed in any one day, and not more than
six OF either kind transported at one time.
The law as it stands is practically farce
and does not protect TO any great avtent.
So far as possible the State should be di-
vided into sections or groups Of Counties
and a general law enacted for the open
and close season for fish, game, fowl and
birds, affecting alike az many counties as
possible in a group.