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condition as also the telephone line. Boundary Bald Mountain 

 tower was painted and the trail kept in good condition. The 

 telephone service poor. 



L. P. Barney, Moose IRiver territory — During past season 

 we built a watchman's camp, 14 x 14 on the top of Kibbie 

 Mountain making very fine quarters. We also repaired tele- 

 phone line and trails to both Kibbie and Williams Mts. 



Louis Oakes, Moosehead Lake territory — Prompt communi- 

 cation between the three stations in my territory and between 

 each station and parties living in vicinity of where small fires 

 started from prevented the spreading of such fires beyond con- 

 trol. During the wet weather this summer the men in charge 

 of lookout stations improved the conditions of their telephone 

 lines, trails and camps, as much as possible. 



Frank Hilton, Kennebec River territory, Somerset county — 

 1 have laid insulated wire over the ledge at Bald Mt. to the 

 lookout which greatly improves the telephone service. The 

 lookouts on Bald Mt. and Mt. Coburn have been painted and in 

 the latter case papered inside. 



The great improvement work in this territory has been the 

 cleaning up of slash. The Moosehead Tel. and Tel. Co. have 

 cleaned their slash from Somerset Junction to Kineo doing a 

 very satisfactory job to the land owners and myself. The 

 Maine Central Railroad has cleaned the slash the whole length 

 of the line from Bingham to Kineo. The town of Moscow has 

 cleaned up practically all along where their slash lay within 

 the limits of the highway. 



Fred S. Bunker, Southern part of Hancock County — I have 

 put in one mile of telephone line and a new trail of one mile 

 at no expense to the State. E. S. Bowen of Pawtucket, R. I., 

 who owns land in Nos. 9 & 10, stood the expense of a line 

 from the lookout to his camp which will be of great benefit to 

 the State. The Schoodic Mt. tower has been painted, new bat- 

 teries installed and all telephone lines put in first class shape. 



Fred Houghton, Upper Washington County — There has been 

 no big fires and no heavy damage. This has been accomplished 

 by the good work of my Deputies looking after small fires be- 

 fore it was too late. The ground is well posted with danger 

 notices. 



Silas F. Peaslee, Androscoggin watershed, Oxford County — 

 We started in with the view of building a camp at the summit 



