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connect with the main Allagash hne at Round Pond. This 

 change gives the patrolmen at Musquacook Lake better service 

 and the Hne is in a better location to keep in repair. 



A new telephone line was built from Depot Mountain to Eng- 

 lish Lake, following the Canadian Boundary, a distance of about 

 22 miles. This line was built by Ross E. Miller and the regular 

 patrolmen, during such times as it was not necessary to keep up 

 patrol. The section in the vicinity of English Lake is badly 

 exposed to fires from the Canadians clearing land on the oppo- 

 site side of the Boundary, and the telephone line and the camp, 

 built this season at the lake, near the Canadian Boundary in 

 Twp. No. 12, R. 17, seemed a necessity for good service. 



This territory is now well connected with telephone lines and 

 when in good working order, the patrolmen can easily keep in 

 touch with the Chief Warden. It requires constant attention on 

 the part of the patrolmen to keep these lines clear as falling trees 

 tend to either break the wire or bring it in contact with the 

 ground, thus putting it out of commission. 

 Chief Warden John M. Brown, Eagle Lake : 



The department erected a twenty-four foot steel tower on 

 Hedgehog Mountain, which is in the Southwestern part of 

 Township 15, Range 6, W. E. L. S. A house twelve feet by 

 fourteen feet has been built at the foot of the Mountain at the 

 side of a boiling spring of water, in which the watchman makes 

 his home and where a supply of tools for fighting fires are kept 

 on hand. 

 Chief Warden Fred S. Bunker, Franklin : 



A lookout station established on Schoodic Mountain in Town- 

 ship No. 9, South Division, and a telephone line constructed 

 from Franklin Station to the lookout station, a distance of six 

 miles. A camp for the watchman was also built. 



These different reports show over 200 miles of telephone lines 

 constructed during the season. All lookout stations erected 

 were equipped with maps, glasses, alidade, compass, etc. 



Railroad Patrol. 



As last year, chief wardens were appointed for the territory 

 along the right of way of the railroads. These men were paid 

 by the department and the State was reimbursed by the roads. 



