FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE TIMBERLAND OWNERS ASSOCIATION FROM NOVEMBER 30, 1924 TO NOVEMBER 30, 1925 OFFICERS W. R. BROWN, President, Brown Company C. C. WILSON, Vice-President, Groveton Paper Company, Inc. W. H. MORRISON, Secretary-Treasurer, Gorham, N. H. M. F. BLANCHARD, Auditor, Blanchard Sons Company DIRECTORS W. R. BROWN, Brown Company C. C. WILSON, Groveton Paper Co., Inc. H. G. PHILBROOK, Connecticut Valley I.umber Co. M. F. BLANCHARD, Blanchard Sons Co. J. H. HINMAN, Champlain Realty Company. LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE H. C. EDGERTON, Dartmouth College. W. R. BROWN, Brown Company. H. G. PHILBROOK, Conn; Valley Lumber Company. national Paper Company in VVaterville, N. li., Secretary-Treasurer’s Report approximately 32,000 acres which I believe RECEIPTS they will be willing to add to the ajlreage Balance from 1924 $ 962.50 already' owned by them, and if so, the acre­ Asses.sments 1925 (Ic) per acre 7,328.48 age owned by the members in 1926 will be neai ly the same as for the past year. $8,290.98 EXPENDITURES As yet, we have been unable to get the Paid to patrolmen $5,780.95 Draper Corporation at Beebe River interested Salary 750.00 in our Association. Automobile expense 257.21 Membership of the Association Office expense 86.55 Brown Companv, Berlin, N. H. Advertising 45.00 Connecticut Valley Lumber Co., Boston, Mass Telephone line repairs 39.60 Blanchard Sons Company, Portland, Me. Telephone tolls 2.40 Bretton "Woods Company, New York City. Patrolmen’s camp leases 8.00 Dartmouth College Grant, Hanover, N. H. Care of fire pump 10.00 E. Libby & Sons Company, Gorham, N. H, Traveling expenses 4.00 J. J. Lannin Company, Inc., Balsams, N. H, David Pingree, Bangor, Maine. $6,983.71 Balance................................**'^1,307.27 E. Bertram Pike, Pike, N. H. C. M. C. Twitchell Estate, Milan, N. H. The number of members belonging to the International Paper Co., Portland, Me. • As.sociation the past year were twenty-eight American Realty Company, Portland, Me. but as Mr. Frank Hall of Guildhall, Vt., has Umbagog Paper Company, Portland, Me. notified the Secretary that he will not con­ Champlain Realty Company, White River tinue his membership another year, there will Junction, Vt. be but twenty-seven members in 1926 unless Groveton Paper Company, Inc., Groveton, we can get others interested to come in. N. H. The total acreage owned by the members C. N. Hodgdon Estate, Berlin, N. H. the past year was 732,848 acres. The Parker- Ruel -A.. Woods Estate, Milan, N. H. Young Company has bought from the Inter­ I H. L. Aiarston, Berlin, N. H. Brook valleys and on the west side of Azisco- Dr. Thomas U. Coe Estate, Bangor, Maine. hos lake. Prof. Archibald C. Coolidge, Boston, Mass. Another patrolman was employed in the Dalton Power Company, Gilman, Vt. Little River Valley in Carroll and Bethlehem, John C. Hutchins, No. Stratford, N. H. and was paid jointly by the towns of tarroll, Parker-Young Company, Boston, Mass. Bethlehem and Littleton, and the New Hamp­ Nathan Fogg Estate, Gorham, N. H. shire Forestry Department, both of the last Whitefield Manufacturing Company, White- mentioned patrolmen being under the super­ field, N. H. vision of the Secretary of the Association. Frank Hall (withdrawn), Guildhall, Vt. Rut nine small fires were extinguished by Frank N. Edwards, Shelburne, N. H. the patrolmen during the season and 6,074 Pittsburgh Land. Company, Boston, Mass. persons were warned by them to be careful Fire Season of 1925 of fire while in the woods. The above article is rather difficult to de­ The following is the list of patrol routes fine for the reason that there was no ex­ for the season: tremely dangerous period during the entire TOWN ROUTE season, the first two -weeks of September Pittsburg No. 1 Between First and Second being the only dry period during the season, Cbnnecticut Lakes. and vegetation being in full growth, very 2 Scotts Bog and Third Lake. little danger of forest fires was experienced 3 Indian Stream Valley. at that time. -—>s 4 Hall Stream Valley. Patrol^ 5 East and middle branches Eighteen patfhlmen were employed during of Dead Diamond. the’ entire seasOti, and five others were used 6 Old cuttings on Little Ma- during the fishing season, or when thought galloway. necessary.- 7 West branch of Big Ma- The Brown Company in cooperation with galloway. the State of Maine Commissioner, maintained Clarksville, 8 Cedar Stream and Dead- a patrolman in the Abbott and Hammond water valleys,. College Grant 9 Dead and Swift Diamond Streams. Patrolmen No.’s 6 and 7 were paid jointly Odell & by the New Hampshire Timberland Owners Stratford 10 Nash Stream and trilju- Association and the State of Maine Forestry taries. Commission. Stratford 11 Hall lands. In thirty towns in which the members of St atford No 12 Bog Brook Valley. the Association have holdings, no fires were Errol ’ 13 Old cuttings Errol Hill and reported, and in eight towns twenty-two fires Bear Pond. were reported with a total acreage burned 14 Old cuttings, Greenough of 156 acres, of which acreage 45 acres were Pond territory. reported by the Wardens as grasslands, leav­ Irvings Location ing but one hundred and eleven acres of 'and Odell 15 Phillips Brook and Pond. second growth forest lands burned. Dummer 16 Dummer Ponds and Newell The fire record for each year since the Brook. Association was organized is as follows: Berlin and Date Number Acerape Average Milan 17 Old cuttings on Fogg Es­ of Fires Burned 1911 ........ tate. ................ 70 4835 69 acres 1912........ ................123 4727 Success 18 Stearns Brook Valley. 38 1913 ....... }t Jackson 19 E. Libby & Sons*'C^mpany ................142 2323 16 lands.----^ 1914........ ................ 19 2107 no ” 1915........ )> Millsfield 20 Millsfield Ponds and ................ 24 3750 156 1916........ ” Streams. ................ 16 112 7 1917........ Waterville 21 1. P. Co.’s lands. Mad River ................ 13 260 20 1918........ Valley. ................ 22 314 12 1919........ ” Lincoln 22 Old cuttings in Lincoln ................ 24 175 7 1920 ........ Valley. .........,..... 12 517 43 Whitefield & 1921 ........ ................ 38 1850 49 1922 ......... Dalton 23 Whitefield Mfg. Company's ................ 22 635 29 1923 ......... lands. ................ 22 2392 113 1924 ........................ 27 1244 74 ” 1925 ......................... 22 156 7 ” . Advertising The Association continues to use the Di­ rectory of the Coos Telephone Company as an advertising medium by hiving the names of the different Fire Wardens together with their telephone numbers listed therein, as is also each of the State Lookout Stations..