Mr. Gardner. You do that, I suppose, because you think you get better water from your wells than you do from the river?
Dr. Goodale. Well, many have had typhoid fever in Clayton and many of the residents there have felt afraid to use the St. Lawrence River water. But I do not think it is very bad. I talked with some boatmen coming down on the Island Belle. They have been running the Island Belle for 20 years. They say they do not want any better water. I asked them where they got their water, whether they got it at Clayton or Thousand Island Park, and they said no; that they got it out in the center of the stream.
Mr. Gardner. You have quite a good deal of navigation going to and from the island?
Dr. Goodale. Yes, sir; there are a great many boats landing there every day.
Mr. Powell. Have you any idea of how much of a floating population there is in the whole region, the mainland and the islands?
Dr. Goodale. Well, it would be a guess. Do you mean during the summer while the tourists are there?
Mr. Powell. Yes.
Dr. Goodale. I should think 50,000.
Mr. Powell. I was there before the big hotel was burned and on that one island alone for a week or so they had a population of over 10,000.
Dr. Goodale. At Thousand Island Park we have a population of nearly 10,000 at this minute.