. Annual report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the State of New York . which a shallowstream of water carries the sticks to the railroad, or to some river whence theyare driven to the pulp mills, in the same manner as in a log drive. In the vicinity of Benson Mines, St. Lawrence County, there is a water slidethree miles long for conveying pulpwood to the railroad. This trough is 24 incheswide at the top and 10 at the bottom, with a depth of 20 inches. It is capable ofmoving 60 cords per hour. The company operating this slide had at one time apile of pulpwood 1,000 ft. long, 26 ft.
. Annual report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the State of New York . which a shallowstream of water carries the sticks to the railroad, or to some river whence theyare driven to the pulp mills, in the same manner as in a log drive. In the vicinity of Benson Mines, St. Lawrence County, there is a water slidethree miles long for conveying pulpwood to the railroad. This trough is 24 incheswide at the top and 10 at the bottom, with a depth of 20 inches. It is capable ofmoving 60 cords per hour. The company operating this slide had at one time apile of pulpwood 1,000 ft. long, 26 ft. high, and 40 ft. wide, all of which had beentransported from the woods to the railroad by this novel method. They had, also,an additional trough or slide in which sawed lumber was transported from the millto the railroad by the same method. The J. & J. Rogers Pulp Company, of AusableForks, Essex County, N. Y., have on one of their jobs a water slide seven and one-half miles long, by which their pulp stock is carried to the Ausable River, and fromthere driven to their <£ o Ph X c/! w fc C/3 <« Id O to en FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 279 In 1898 the total cut of logs in the Adirondack forests amounted to544,234,207 ft., of which 229,581,918 ft. were consumed in the pulp mills. A peculiar effect of the woodpulp industry is the rise in value of sprucestumpage, which has increased beyond what the market value of the sawed lumberwill Spruce stumpage is now worth so much more for woodpulp than forlumber that the sawmill men are unable to pay the price demanded for the standingtimber ; and unless there is some change in market conditions this species will notenter so largely hereafter into building operations, its place being taken to agreat extent by hemlock or cheap pine. Volame of Easiness. The lumber industry of New York attained its maximum development at sometime prior to 1865, when there were, according to the State census of that year,3,963 sawmil
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