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of Speckle Mt., and a wooden skeleton trestle 24 feet high and 

 instructed the lookout man, during wet periods, to peel the 

 necessary amount of small trees and carry up 2 1-2 M. shingles 

 to shingle the roof of the camp: after which, I proposed to 

 send up a man to build the camp and trestle with the lookout 

 man's assistance. The lookout man peeled a few trees and only 

 carried up one thousand shingles and did not get it any further 

 ahead. 



Philander Butts, Territory adjacent to Kingfield, Franklin 

 County — The Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad has 

 been most carefully gone over and cleared of slash which lessens 

 the danger of fire to a great extent. 



C. C. Murphy, Androscoggin watershed in Franklin and 

 Oxford Counties — An effort is being made to get rid of the 

 slash along the highways to reduce the fire risk. 



Chief Wardens Recommendations for 1917 Improvements 



Claude L. Sawyer, Guerette — For another season the fire 

 station will have to have new bedding and dishes and all tele- 

 phone lines will have to be repaired. 



William E. Brown, Plaisted — The fire station (Hedgehog 

 Mt.) will have to have a spy glass for another season. 



J. E. Junkins, Ashland — Next year, the house ought to be 

 put on the steel tower on Norway Bluff and a telephone line 

 constructed from Ashland to Machias Lake. A new lookout 

 should be built on Haystack Mt. 



Chas. J. Thibodeau, St. Francis — For the coming year, it will 

 be absolutely necessary that a cook stove be purchased for the 

 camp on the shore of Umsaskis Lake. 



I think it would be advisable to build a camp at Cunliffe's 

 Depot on the Allagash River for the purpose of storing our 

 fire fighting tools and it could also be used for a home camp 

 for the patrolmen during the summer season. 



Would suggest that an independent wire be run from the 

 mouth of the Allagash river to Long Lake, a distance of about 

 thirty-two miles. I have found it to be very difficult to get good 

 service in this section by using the lumbermen's lines. I would 

 also suggest that the telephone line be extended from the head 

 of Glazier lake to our camp built in 1915 in Twp. 20, R. 11 and 

 12, on the St. Francis river, a distance of about eighteen miles. 



