48 FOREST commissioner's REPORT. 



Stove and cooking tools. There is a telephone box in the camp 

 as well as in the tower. There was also a row boat furnished 

 the lookout station at a cost of twelve dollars, which was used 

 in the erection of the telephone line along the shore of Eagle 

 Lake, a distance of four miles, and it also follows the shore of 

 Square Lake for about the same distance. With the completion 

 of the telephone line (the material for same is all on the ground) 

 and connection with the long distance so as to give the watch- 

 man a chance to communicate with the Forest Commissioner 

 direct. A few tools for fighting fires, I thifik, will give this 

 section all it will need. 

 Chief Warden L. P. Barney, Skinner : 



Steel towers have been erected on Kibbie and Williams 

 Mountains, and a new pole line six miles in from Skinner, which 

 gives us good telephone service, has been built. 

 Chief Warden Ora Gilpatrick, Houlton : 



Have kept a man for lookout purposes on Lawler Hill at 

 which place we already have the material with which to erect a 

 steel tower in the spring of 191 5. 

 Chief Warden S. F. Peaslee, Upton : 



There has been a telephone line constructed from main car- 

 riage road in Grafton Notch to summit of Speckle Mountain, 

 which station has been established this summer ; tent and camp- 

 ing outfit supplied for the Station. 

 Chief Warden T. O. Hill, Topsfield : 



This season the tall trees which obstructed the view on Mus- 

 quash Mountain were cut down, a regular observation house 

 built, the tower painted and new maps and tables furnished for 

 same. A new lookout station established on Almanac Mountain, 

 in Lakeville Plantation, equipped with glasses, maps and other 

 necessary implements. One-half mile of telephone line built to 

 connect with the main Dobsis Lake Telephone line. 

 Chief Warden E. L. Chase, Brownville: 



Lookout Station established on Mattamiscontis Mountain, 

 and erected a log camp placing it upon a rock foundation and 

 using such material as would warrant its permanent use, and 

 connecting it with the outside world by telephone, via. Cedar 

 Lake, Ingalls, West Seboeis and Brownville Telephone Com- 

 pany, a distance of eight miles. This Mountain is located near 

 the Range line between the eighth and ninth Ranges, N. W. P. 



