Identifier: annualreport131415190newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (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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esults accomplished have amply demonstratedthe wisdom of that legislation. In some of its provisions the law was ofa pioneer character. This was the case especially in its requirements ofproper sanitary conditions and surroundings for oyster beds. This will beagain referred to, it now being sufficient to say that other states are follow-ing in the track first marked out when in the year 1905 a bill embodying thepresent sanitary provisions was introduced. Business of the Year1. Surveys. (a) Hydro graphic triangulations. The principal operations during theyear have been on the north coast line of Long Island between Port Jef-ferson and Hortons Point, sixty signals having been located within theselimits, including some United States Coast and Geodetic points. Thisstretch of shore covers about thirty-six miles. The completion of this workopens up a large area of lands under water for future shellfish cultivation. All of the triangulation work which had been marked out for the year was 276
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RAIL BIRD SHOOTING FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 277 fully completed before the close of the season, so affording an opportunity tomake substantial progress upon preliminary work upon the extension of thesystem from Hortons Point easterly to Orient Point, which is about twelvemiles from Hortons Point, and is the most easterly point upon the northerlyside of Long Island. In this preparatory work for next years triangulationsurvey upon the division mentioned, three new tripod signals and five rocksignals were erected, and in addition sixteen other points to be used for signalswere selected. Under the system of surveys used in Long Island Sound thelands under water are laid off in townships and lots so that a grant of landbeing made to a shellfish planter there is no difficulty in fitting the applicationto the exact land intended, and conflicts of titles and of boundaries areavoided. The system has been described in detail in former reports as aproposed s

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