46 FOREST commissioner's REPORT. 



Tumbledown, Moxie Bald, and Saddleback Mountains. Thq 

 erecting of towers is the greatest improvement that has ever 

 been made in our Forestry Department, and I really believe 

 that we have the best system in the United States. Of course 

 there are many more mountains that need these towers, but 

 they can be added from year to year as the funds will allow. 



There has been a new telephone line constructed along the 

 Canada Road from the Mount Coburn Road to the Jones Pond 

 Road, near the Canadian boundary. This line is on the poles 

 of the Northern Maine Telephone & Telegraph Company. 

 From the top of Johnson (Coburn) Mountain to Jones Pond 

 Road there are six telephone instruments with proper switches 

 which may be used by anyone passing, in case of fire. The 

 line from Lake Moxie, running south along the right of way 

 of the Maine Central Railroad to Bald Mountain, has been 

 thoroughly rebuilt and put on the poles of the Railroad Com- 

 pany with their consent, without charging any pole rental. A 

 new line has been built from Jackman to the Boundary along 

 the right of way of the Canadian Pacific Railway being placed 

 on their pole, with their consent, without charge of pole rental. 

 A new line has been built from Skinner to the Depot Camp, 

 of the Spencer Lumber Company, by the Maine Forestry Dis- 

 trict, Hollingsworth & Whitney Company, Elizabeth S. Haynes 

 and Spencer Lumber Company. The telephone Kine from 

 Joseph White's and Harry Pierce's sporting camps to Eustis has 

 been greatly improved. All the telephone lines in the Kennebec 

 watershed have been more or less improved and reconstructed. 



Wherever tools were lacking in the tool boxes they have been 

 replaced by new ones ; although most of the boxes in this section 

 were well supplied. There is a good supply of tools in my 

 stable, also a good camping kit and set of tools that were used 

 by Edwin L Small in the erection of the lookout stations. An- 

 other year if there could be a lookout tower erected on Mount 

 Bigelow and Pleasant Pond Mountains I think the Kennebec 

 watershed would be well supplied with lookout stations. 



I most heartily urge that some form of amendment or addi- 

 tion be made to the Maine Forestry District law this winter to 

 aid the organized towns in some sort of a lookout and patrol 

 system. I would also advocate an addition to the law requir- 

 ing all land owners to dispose of slash within one hundred feet 

 of any railroad, carriage or buck-board road. 



