FOREST commissioner's REPORT. 45 



Improvements made as mentioned in reports of Chief Ward- 

 ens were as follows : 

 Chief Warden J. B. Bartlett, Ashland : 



During the past summer there has been built on Norway 

 Bluff, Township 9, Range 9, a 24 foot steel lookout tower; a 

 camp built on the side of the mountain for the watchman ; four 

 miles of telephone wire hung to connect with the Maine For- 

 estry District wire at Munsungan Lake, giving the man on 

 Norway Bluff lookout telephone connection with Oxbow Plan- 

 tation. There has also been hung on the lower end of the 

 Aroostook River telephone line three miles of wire; connecting 

 with Libby Hotel, at Oxbow Plantation, giving the lookout man 

 on Norway Bluff connection at two places. On Hedgehog 

 Mountain, Township 11, R. 4, a temporary lookout tower of 

 wood has been constructed, connecting the tower by three miles 

 of wire with the line of the New England Telephone Co., on 

 the West Chapman road, and giving thereby the man on the 

 mountain telephone connection with Ashland, Mapleton and 

 Presque Isle. 



The temporary wooden lookout tower on Round Mountain, 

 Township 11, Range 8 has been repaired, and the thirty miles 

 of wire leading from this tower to Ashland has been repaired 

 and kept in working order during the summer. The camp has 

 a new cook stove, and is equipped with cooking outfit, dishes 

 and blankets for two persons. 



A lookout station was established on No. 9 Mountain, Town- 

 ship 9, Range 3, and two lines of telephone built from there. 

 One leading to Howe Brook about 14 miles, and the other lead- 

 ing to Harvey's Siding about 16 miles. 

 Chief Warden, Forrest H. Colby, Bingham : 



Reporting on the working and improvements of the Forestry 

 Department in the Kennebec watershed the past summer will 

 say that, although the season would have to be considered a 

 very dry one there was only one fire of any extent, that being 

 the one on Soldier Town, but as the land had recently been cut 

 over the damage Was not large. People who travel in the 

 woods in general seem to be getting educated more and more 

 each year in regard to being careful with fires. The efficiency 

 of the Forestry Department is being improved each year. I 

 have visited the lookouts on Boundary Bald, Attean, Coburn. 



