4 Forestry Quarterly 



At first a one inch nozzle was used, but a ^^ inch was found 

 fully as effective and less wasteful. 



The steam goes through a pipe from the dome to either end of 

 the engine, with a valve at the end and a steam-hose connection 

 to the pump. 



When the pump is in operation it can throw two streams, or 

 only one as may be deemed best. From the nozzle the water is 

 thrown 150 ft., so the maximum distance for one stream would 

 be 350 ft. from the track. 



The tank car can be filled from any overhead water tank or 

 by means of the suction hose from some roadside creek. 



The whole equipment costs about $600. 



During the winter the pump is boarded up and the hose stored 

 away. 



This tank car is especially useful for saving logs already piled 

 along the track. Together with a system of patrols and spark 

 arresters it furnishes a highly efficient scheme of protection. 

 Here, as in most cases, the proof of the pudding lies in the eat- 

 ing — although sometimes as many as three incipient fires occur 

 a day they are promptly extinguished and the Company has had 

 no serious fires since the lumbering operation began. 



The total amount actually paid for patroling, fighting fires and 

 fire protection generally in 1905 was only $1710, of which $1500 

 for patroling and cleaning up brush along the railroad. The 

 figure of $3000 given above may, therefore, be considered an 

 outside figure. 



The fire problem impossible of solution ? Let us but cease 

 talking about it and go at it with good will, good common sense 

 and application, not afraid of the relatively small expenditure, if 

 we would meet this greatest need of American forestry. 



A. B. Recknagel. 



