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and Townships two and three in those Ranges, and overlooks a 

 ver^' large area which heretofore has been unprotected. This 

 station is not completed ; there is a forty-eight foot steel tower 

 designed for this station and which has been taken to the place 

 of erection together with the portable house. 

 Chief Warden Alfred K. Ames, Machias: 



There has been a telephone line built from Machias Main 

 River on the Air Line road (so-called) West as far as Bedding- 

 ton and then up Lead Mountain to the new steel lookout which 

 has recently been built there. The lookouts at Lead Mountain, 

 Tug Mountain and Wesley Mountain are now connected by a 

 metallic circuit line (twenty-eight miles long) independent of 

 all other lines. At Main River, Lily Lake, Mopang Stream 

 and Lovejoy Hill, telephones have been installed in boxes on 

 the poles so that the patrolmen can call up a watch-tow^er from 

 these several points without any delay of walking or riding five 

 or six miles to the watch-tower to get the desired information. 

 Daily, several automobile parties pass over this road from Ban- 

 gor to Calais, Grand Lake Stream and other eastern points and 

 stop to lunch — generally from Beddington to Main River — and 

 as a rule, they are people who are not familiar with the danger 

 of forest fires, so it is necessary to keep patrolmen on the line 

 of travel during the dry seasons. For the above reason, the new 

 telephone line is a great aid to patrolmen. 

 Chief Warden D. W. Campbell 2nd, Cherryfield : 



During the fire season of 1914, there was a particularly dry 

 time during the last of May and the first of June. We did 

 comparatively nothing fighting fire before the 27th of May as 

 the fires would go out at night on the barrens, and they were 

 covered with men burning for the purpose of raising blueberries. 

 During this time is was impossible for the watchman on Lead 

 Mountain to look ofif any distance, to locate fires, on account of 

 smoke. One of these fires got away and did considerable dam- 

 age on Twp. No. 10, at the same time there were numerous fires 

 on the barrens, but they happened to be in localities where they 

 could not spread. 



In this district we have erected a new thirty-six foot steel 

 tower on Lead Mountain, No. 28, and constructed five and one- 

 half miles of telephone line connecting the tower with Cherry- 

 field and Machias. We need a metallic telephone line between 



