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Title: Annual report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the State of New York
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
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eet accordingly. The returns from the pulpmills, though correct, do not always indicate thecapacity of a mill or amount of its product, for some of them are stocked in part, orwholly, from Canada, while the tabulations given here include the Adirondack cutonly. In 1900 the pulpmills of this State received from the Canadian provinces151,157 cords—-equivalent to 82,985,193 ft., B. M. It is interesting to note that the amount of spruce used in making paper hasincreased annually, until it now exceeds greatly the amount cut for lumber. In1890 the spruce used by the pulpmills was reported at 51,966,262 ft. Last yearthe amount reached 230,649,292 ft. Product of fl)e Cats^ill Forests. Hitherto, the output of the Catskill sawmills has not been included in myannual reports, as it was supposed that, owing to their small size and limitedproduct, the information would have no especial value. In the annual report of theForest Commission, for 1885, I submitted some statistics showing the number of
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O FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 99 mills in each of the Forest Preserve Counties,* from which it appeared that therewere 90 sawmills in Ulster and Sullivan counties, of which 72 used water power and18 used steam. But the water mills, which were all small affairs, were shut downmost of the year, and so their product attracted little attention. As more definite information regarding the forest products of that regionseemed desirable, Mr. A. B. Strough, a special agent of this Commission, wasinstructed to make an exhaustive examination of the entire district embraced in thefour Catskill counties, and collect all the statistics possible relating to the industriesin that region which are dependent on the forest for their supply of raw material.From the written statements furnished by the various mill owners I find that theproducts of the Catskill forests for the year 1900 attain the following aggregate : FEET, B. M. Spruce, -- - - 2,730,780 Hemlock, - - - -- - - - -- - 18,659,026 Pine,

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