. Annual report . vHnce i<Uo In 1840, judging from what I have heard from old hunters, and gath-ered from other sources, I should say that there were probably not toexceed three hundred beavers in the Adirondacks. About this time, or alittle earlier, the beaver became finally extinct in all parts of the Stateoutside of the Adirondacks.* Their numbers now dropped away rapidly, and henceforth they becamegreater rarities than panthers (pumas) or wolves, which continuedin considerable numbers until about 1885. At the mid-century (1850),there were perhaps seventy-five beavers living in the North
. Annual report . vHnce i<Uo In 1840, judging from what I have heard from old hunters, and gath-ered from other sources, I should say that there were probably not toexceed three hundred beavers in the Adirondacks. About this time, or alittle earlier, the beaver became finally extinct in all parts of the Stateoutside of the Adirondacks.* Their numbers now dropped away rapidly, and henceforth they becamegreater rarities than panthers (pumas) or wolves, which continuedin considerable numbers until about 1885. At the mid-century (1850),there were perhaps seventy-five beavers living in the North Woods, andthey were mostly confined to the central core of the region; that is, south-eastern St. Lawrence, southern Franklin, western Essex and northern * However, beavers, believed to have escaped from a private preserve, have been observed inOrange county, in the extreme southern part of the State, in recent years, and one is said to havebeen killed by a railway train in that county, near Two Bridges, in FART OF A BEAVER DAM 250 FEET IN LENGTH.
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