SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Timberland Owners Association

NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN

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^ i-i ^ C. H. W. L. The number of members belonging to the Association this year is twenty-eight, and the total acerage owned by them ip 782,592 acres. 1917 Fire Season _ During the year one member of the Association A backward spring postponed the fire' danger bought the holdings of three other members, thus so that but five patrolmen were at work the last reducing the number of members but retaining the day of May, and a number of the others employed acreage to the Association. were not put on until the latter part of June. Three members have been dropped, they not having paid either the assessments for 1916 or 1917. Patrol Weather conditions were so favorable during As in the past two seasons, all patrolmen were the entire season that it has been possible to liftiit paid from the Association funds, no Government the total assessment to J^c per acre. moneys being available for this work. Purchase of lands by the Government from Fourteen patrolmen were employed for the members of the Association will be limited to small entire season, and six others were employed during areas this season so that the acreage of the Asso­ the fishing season only. ciation will be approximately the same as for this Thirty-six small fires were put out by the year; about 738,000 acres, which at full rate of patrolmen and 2199 persons were wa/aied to be assessment will yield an income of $7,380^00; careful of fire while in the woods. The following list shows the routes of the patrolmen who were employed this season: TOWN ROUTE Pittsburg 1. Old cuttings around First and Second Lakes. 2. Third Lake and Scotts Bog. 3. Valley. 4. Headwaters of Dead Diamond. 5. ' Hammond and Abbott Brook Valleys. 5 TOWN ROUTK the Association and the State of Maine Forestry 6. Little Magalloway and tribu­ Commission. taries. Mountain Lookout Stations Clarksville 7. Cedar and Deadwater Streams. The two Lookout Stations owned by the ASS9- Dartmouth 8. Dead and Swift Diamonds and ciation in 1916 were taken over by the New Hamp­ Grant Four Mile Brook. shire Forestry Department early in the season. Odell 9. Nash Stream Valley. The total amount paid by the Forestry Depart­ Errol 10. Old cuttings on Errol Hill. ment for the six lookout stations originally owned 11. West side by the Association was $837.12 which amount has in Errol and Cambridge. been added to the general fund of the Association Dummer 12. Dummer Pond and Newell and which has been paid out by the Treasurer Brook. under the different expenditures noted in his Odell and report. Irvings Number and Area of Fires Location 13. Valley. In fifty towns there were no fires of enough Stark 14. Mill Brook Valley. importance to be reported. In the remaining towns Milan and in which the members of the Association are Berlin 15. Ammonoosuc Valley. interested there were thirteen fires. The fire Berlin and record for the past seven years is as follows: Success 16. Horne Brook Valley. Total Average Acres Success and Number of Fires Area Burned by Burned Each Fire Cambridge 17. Success Pond apd tributa?fes. 1911...... 70 4835 acres 69 acres Woodstock 18. Hubbard and Mill Brook Val­ 1912...... 123 4727 “ 38 " and Thornton leys. 1913...... 142 2323 “ 16 ■' Waterville 19. Mad River and I. P. cutting. 1914...... 19 2107 “ 110 “ Jackson 20. Conway Co.’s cuttings on East 1915...... 24 3750 “ 156 " branch . 1916...... 16 112 “ 7 “ Patrolmen Nos. 5 and 6 were paid jointly by 1917...... -...... 13 260 " 20 “ 1 6 7 Advertising A list of the Town Fire Wardens with their telephone numbers was printed in the Coos Telfe- phone Directory and a fire caution notice placed in the New Hampshire Fish and Game Magazine.