Ninth Annual Report OF THE New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NINETEEN SECRETARY-TREASURER’S REPORT Receipts OFFICERS Balance from 1918 .....................................$1,820.83 Assessments (%c)...................................... 5,544.51 W. R. Brown, President - Brown Company Telephone wire sold.................................... 13.50 C. C. Wilson, Vice-President, Telephone tolls’ received............................. 9.74 Groveton Paper Co., Inc. Interest ....................................................... 20.00 Received from arrearages........................... 14.00 Wr H. Morrison, Secretary-Treasurer, Gorham, N. H. $7,422,58 Expenditures Paid patrolmen.............................................$5,620.25 DIRECTORS Salary........................................................... 700.00 Traveling expense....................................... 33.00 W. R. Brown, Brown Company. Automobile expense.................................... 183.74 Office expense.............................................. 76.35 L. S. Tainter, Publishers-Pa^er Co. Advertising....................................... 45.00 C. C. Wilson, Groveton Paper Co., Inc. Telephone tolls............................................. 16.80 H. G. Philbrook, Conn. Valley Lumber Co. Telephone repairs....................................... 19.65 George A. Chedel, International Paper Co. $6,694.79 Balance........................................................$ 727.79 The number of members belonging to the Asso­ ciation this year is twenty seven, and the total acre- 3 age owned by them is 720,775 acres. The following list shows the routes of the Patrol­ This year again, wages to Patrolmen was some­ men who were employed this season: , what in advance of that paid in former years, and Town Route on account of extremely dry weather a large num­ Pittsburg No. 1 Cuttings around first hnd sec­ ber of men had to be employed during the early ond lakes. part of the season. As there was left in the Treas­ 2 Third Connecticut Lake and ury from last year a fairly good balance, it has been Scotts Bog. pocsible to limit the total assessnlent to %c per 3 Perry Stream Valley. acre, but a very small balance will be left toward 4 Inditin Stream Valley. another season’s work. 5 Hall Stream Valley. Purchase of lands by the federal Government 6 Head Waters Dead Diamond. from members of the Association will be limited to 7 Hammond and Abbott Brook small areas next season Bo that the acreage con­ Valleys. trolled be the Association will be approximately the 8 West Branch Big Magalloway. same as for this year. 9 Old cuttings on Little Magall­ Fire Season of 1919 oway. The fire danger season- began early in May, and Clarksville 10 Cedar and Deadwater Streams continued dry weather prevailed until the latter Dartmouth Col- part of August, after which date we had frequfent lege Grant 11 Dead and Swift Kamonds. rains for the balance of the se^n. Odell 12 Nash Stream and Ponds. Stratford 13 Old cuttings on Bog Brook. Patrol Errol 14 Old cuttings around Errol Eighteen Patrolmen were employed for the entite Hill season, and nine others were employed during the 15 Cuttings around Akers and d^est weather, and on Sundays, Holidays, etc. Greenough Ponds. Thirty small fires were put out by the Patrolmen Odell and and 2,489 persons were warned to be careful of fire Irvings while in the woods. Location 16 Phillips Brook Valley. 4 5 Town Route being 175 acres. Dummer 17 Dummer Pond and Newall The fire record for the years since the organiz­ Brook. ation of the Association is as follows: Stark ' 18 Mill Brook Valley. Average Berlin 19 Mount Forest and Jericho Number Total Area Acres Brook. of Fires Burned Burned Berlin and 1911...... 70 4835 69 acres Success 20 Horne Brook Valley. 1912...... ...... 123 4727 38 “ Success 21 Old cuttings on Stearns 1913...... ...... 142 2323 16 “ Brook. 1914 .... ...... 19 2107 110 “ Woodstock and 1915...... ...... 24 3750 156 “ Thornton 22 Hubbard and Mill Brooks 1916...... ...... 16 112 7 “ Waterville 23 I. P. cuttings on Mad River. 1917..... ...... 13 260 20 “ Jackson 24 Miles River and tributaries. 1918...... ...... 22 314 12 “ Millsfield 25 Millsfield Pond and Streams. 1919...... ...... 24 17^ 7 “ Benton 26 I. P. Co.’s lands Wildwood region. Advertising Gorham and As in past years, the Association has continued Berlin 27 Moose Brook Valley. to use the Telephone Directory of the Coos Tele­ Gorham 28 Libby’s cujtings Pekhody Riv- phone Co. as a medium of advertising by listing er. therein the names of the different town fire wardens, together with the telephone number of each warden. Patrolmen Nos. 7, 8 and 9 were paid jointly by the Association and the Maine Forestry Commission .• Number and Areas of Fires In fourteen towns in which the members of the Association have lands there occurred 24 fires of small size, the total acreage burned by all the fires 6 7.