74 FOREST COMMISSIONERS REPORT. 



Service selected a list of lookout stations that would be main- 

 tained at Federal expense, the total of which expenditure to be 

 in proportion to the State expenditure as contemplated by the 

 budget submitted. The Federal stations are designated by a 

 star in "1916 Lookout Service." 



Following is a statement showing the result of 1916 coopera- 

 tion under the Weeks Law : 

 Total amount received from Federal 



Government for lookout service $5,926 °° 



Expended as follows : 



For Lookout Watchmen. 



Watershed 



St. John $781 00 



Penobscot 1,830 25 



Kennebec 1,586 25 



Androscoggin 172 50 



Machias, etc i>556 00 



Total $5,926 00 



By the system of establishing certain lookouts as Federal 

 stations, the merit system must prevail from year to year and 

 a removal of a watchman from a Federal station, except for 

 inefficiency or other sufficient cause, may result in the termi- 

 nation of the cooperation by the Federal Government. 



Cooperation Outside of the Maine Forestry District. 



With $1,500.00 available for work outside the Forestry Dis- 

 trict, it was the earnest desire on the part of the officials of the 

 Forest Service and myself, to inaugurate a system of forest 

 fire protection in a group of towns not included in the District 

 — heretofore never attempted. 



In the matter it was necessary that the towns should appro- 

 priate funds to share the cost of the Federal employees and the 

 purpose was to create a permanent protective system rather than 

 to remedy a purely local condition of short duration. 



Waterboro Project. 



From information based on the findings of this Department 

 and also, through the efforts of Mr. Ivory H. Smith of Water- 



