2 Forestry Quarterly 



logging roads radiate in either direction. Along the track 

 the patrols are stationed at half mile (or even less than half 

 mile) intervals where there is especial danger, as near slashings 

 on the main line, or at intervals of a mile where the danger is 

 less. 



Patrols are also posted at intervals of about a mile along the 

 boundaries of the tract where farmers are apt to be careless in 

 burning their fallow, and in order that all parties entering the 

 woods can be cautioned and watched. The Company patrols 

 not only the standing timber but all their old slashes. 



There is a regular system of communication and report be- 

 tween the patrols. Each man has his individual beat for which 

 he is responsible. 



The patrols extinguish all incipient fires — by means of water, 

 where it is available, or by beating out the flame, raking away 

 the leaves and rubbish, or by trenching where this becomes 

 necessary. The cost of patrol varies wdth the season, the region 

 of slash, etc. 



All logging train crews are instructed about fire fighting and 

 stand ready to assist if the alarm for fire is sounded by the 

 engine. This is usually two long and two short toots on the 

 whistle continued for a minute at a time. Each camp has a 

 complete set of tools for fighting fire. Each of the logging 

 engines is equipped with a one inch hose, 50 feet long, for ex- 

 tinguishing small fires. Where possible water from a nearby 

 creek, otherwise that in the engine's tank is used. 



Firemen of engines and log loaders are required — and this is 

 rigidly enforced — to dump all ashes in a safe place — e.g., in a 

 creek, or else to wet them down with the hose. 



All the engines operating in or through the tract are fitted 

 with double spark arresters — the ordinary one in the front of 

 the engine and a cone-shaped, fine-meshed wire cap which fits 

 over the top of the stack and efficiently prevents almost all 

 dangerous sparks. This spark cap was devised by the Company. 

 After experiments with various shapes the conical shape was 

 found the best as it breaks up the cinders very fine. 



These .spark caps are made at the Company's machine shop. 

 They consist, as the drawing shows, of a cap shaped from 12 

 gauge y^ in. mesh (same mesh for inside arrester), wire screen 

 18 in. in diameter at the base and 24 in. in height. The bottom 



