TWENTY-FOURTH cAnnual Import OF THE Timberland Owners Association

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FROM NOVEMBER 30. 1933 TO NOVEMBER 30, 1934 Membership, 1934 Brown Company, Berlin, N. H. Blanchard Sons Co., Portland, Maine. Bretton Woods Co., New York City. Dartmouth College Grant, Hanover, N. H. E. Libby and Sons Co., Gorham, N. H. * OFFICERS Frank Doudera, The Balsams, Colebrook, W. R. BROWN, President, Brown Company, N. H. Berlin, N. H. Estate of David Pingree, Bangor, Maine. C. C. WILSON, Vice-President, Estate of C. M. C. Twitchell, Milan, N. H. Groveton Paper Co., Groveton, N. H. International Paper Co., Pershing Square, J. W. KEENAN, Secretary-Treasurer, New York City. Berlin, N. H. American Realty Company, Palmer, N. Y. M. F. BLANCHARD, Auditor, Groveton Paper Company, Groveton, N. H. Blanchard Sons Co., Portland, Maine Estate of C. N. Hodgdon, Berlin, N. H. Estate of Dr. Thomas U. Coe, Bangor, Maine. Harold J. Coolidge, Center Sandwich, N. H. DIRECTORS Gilman Paper Company, Gilman, Vermont. R. BROWN, Brown Company. J. C. Hutchins, North Stratford, N. H. C. WILSON, Groveton Paper Company. Whitefield Mfg. Co., Whitefield, N. H. F. BLANCHARD, Blanchard Sons Co. Frank N. Edwards, Shelburne, N. H. J. H. HINMAN, International Paper Co. Pittsburg Land Company, Boston, Mass. STEPHEN WHEATLAND, Albert M. Bean, Errol, N. H. David Pingree Estate. E. W. Philbrook and Associates, Littleton, N. H. Report The Association now consists of twenty- one members, as the Champlain Realty Com­ pany and the Umbagog Paper Company were merged with the American Realty and the International Paper Company during the Patrol Routes t' year. Further sales and adjustments on In­ TOWN ROUTE ternational Paper Company lands have re­ Pittsburg No. 1 Land of Pittsburg Land duced the acreage of the Association, leaving 2 Valley. a present total of 416,859 acres, as against Acad’my Grant 3 East and West Branch 418,248 in 1933. Dead Diamond. Fire Season of 1934 4 Abbot & Meadow Brooks. College Grant: S Dead and Swift Diamond The dry and dangerous part of the fire Valleys. season of 1934 was largely during the month Odell and 6 and tribu­ of June, with a large percentage of the fires Stratford occurring during this period. The Errol fire taries. Errol and Went­ took place about this time and might have worth Loc’tion 7 been disastrous but for the use of two bor­ Old cuttings in each town. Irving Location rowed fire pumps. The regular force of and Odell 8 Valley. wardens was augmented in several localities Dummer 9 during the dry spell, and as a result the Dummer Pond and Newell Brook. burned area was small and the damage light. Berlin and 10 Nineteen fires were reported during the^^ea- Jericho Stream, south Milan son, burning a total of about—on^ hundred branch of Ammonoosuc. 11 and seventy-four acres; about one hundred Cambridge Chickwolnepy Valley cut­ and twenty-five acres being forest growth tings. 12 and the balance brush and grass lands. Molnidgewoc Stream. Success 13 Stearns Brook and tribu­ taries. Jackson 14 Miles River and Meserve Brook. Millsfield 15 Millsfield Pond and Pond Brook. Whitefield 16 Whitefield Co.’s lands in Dalton and Whitefield. I Fire Record for Past Ten Years Receipts and Expenditures from November Year Number Acrea;;e Average 30, 1933, to November 30, 1934 of Fires Burned Acres 1925 ...... 22 156 7 Receipts 1926’...... 2 102 51 I 1927 ...... 20 399 20 Balance 1933 $ 776.56 1928 ...... 11 120 11 Assessments 2,818.89 1929 ...... 15 16 1 1930 ...... 28 180 7 $3, 1931 ...... 14 182 6 Expenditures 1932 ...... 3 15 5 $2,162.55 1933 ...... 26 144 Patrol Expense 6 Salary—Secretary-Treasurer 600.00 1934 ...... 19 174 9 Auto and travel expense 235.20 Publicity Office expense 29.25 Publicity 20.00 The Association continues to use the Di- Telephone line repairs 6.00 rectory of the New England Telephone Company as a medium of advertising, by $3,053.00 having each fire warden’s name and tele­ phone number listed therein; also the Balance: November 30, 1934 $542.45 bers of each State Fire Lookotl?^ Station f •located in the North District. Unpaid Assessments: Nov. 30, 1934 $287.18 The’fourth assessment was again cancelled, making the total assessment on members three-quarters of one cent per acre. i