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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)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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se that was well deserved. The grass has beengrowing on their graves for many years ; but their memory is still cherished, theirinfluence for good is still felt, and the world is better for their having lived in it. Among the men, now dead and gone, who were prominently connected with thelumber business on the Upper Hudson, mention should be made of AbrahamWing,* James D. Weston, John J. Harris, Albert N. Cheney, Lewis L. Armes,Walter Geer, Orlin Mead, George Sanford, Orson Richards, Augustus Sherman,James Morgan, Charles H. Faxon, and Lemon Thomson. * Mr. Wing, born in 1791, had the foresight and judgment requisite for improving the goldenchance by bringing to marke-t the splendid pines with which the great Brant Lake Tract abounded.This rich and extensive lumber region, previously operated by the Fox Brothers, Alanson and Norman,had come into the possession of parties in Troy, who intrusted its management to Mr. Wing.(History of Queensbury. By A. W. Holden, M.D., Glens Falls, 1849.)
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17) > rS a en o r* > 1—. 7, =a „ O (J 1 X a fcien H H-l .. CO ^ o ^ FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 277 On the Raquette River: Edward King, Ralph Pomeroy, Charles Pearson, GeorgeRichards, Matthias Vickery, James H. Carpenter, Edward W. Hutchings, LymanH. Wilcox, Harrison Plummer, A. M. Adsit, and E. H. Rosekrans. On the Tioga River: Deacon Simeon Hammond, Abijah Weston, William C.Bronson, William B. Stevens, and Julius Tremaine. On the Saranac River: Senator Christopher F. Norton, Almon Thomas, JamesHammond, David H. Parsons, Wales Parsons, Hartwell Brothers, C. A. Tefft, andLorin Ellis.* In Western New York: John D. Mersereau, of Portville, and the WestonBrothers, of Olean. Woodpalp. Within twenty years the logging industry in Northern New York has beenmaterially affected by the demand for material necessary in the manufacture ofwoodpulp, an industry of comparatively recent development. Ground pulp,obtained by holding blocks of wood against a grindstone, was first made in

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