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should be watch towers or lookout stations, properly distributed. 

 Such watch towers fully equipped cost, with shelter house, be- 

 tween $300 and $500 ; one every 20 miles even would save its cost 

 the first year by reducing the number of wardens necessary. 



7. Rapidity of getting to a fire is essential, hence building of 

 trails to make districts accessible and connecting watch towers by 

 telephone lines, which can be built and equipped for $25 to $50 

 per mile. 



8. Ample funds by special taxes to organize, equip and keep 

 up the service and enforce the law. 



The main requirement is the head man who, if a capable 

 organizer, would work out the detail fit for each condition, and, 

 if left to act with authority and considerable latitude, would soon 

 have the whole community assisting his efforts. 



Your committee believes that the country is ready for this 

 supreme effort to get rid of the fire evil and thereby to make the 

 beginnings of forestry, a rational management of forest lands, 

 possible. 



The Committee: 



B. E. Fernow, Chairman, 

 Thomas Southworth, 

 JuDSON F. Clark, 

 G. C. PiCHE, 

 W. C. J. Hai,l, 

 Frank Davison, 

 Ellwood Wilson. 



