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water supply system $200, fences and corrals $300, clearing and 

 breaking ground for hay, garden, orchard, etc., $1,000, equip- 

 ment and miscellaneous items $500 — say a total of $5,000. This 

 pro-rated comes to $1250 per township for Ranger Stations. 



Telephone lines are required. With so low a mileage of roads 

 and trails it would be desirable to parallel each with a telephone 

 line. Allowing a cost of $50 per mile, the 24 miles will cost 

 $1200, or with extra instruments set at the intersections of roads 

 and trails, special construction required, etc., a total for telephone 

 equipment of $1500 per township. 



Lookout facilities will be needed in most forests. Allow one 

 fully equipped lookout station to four townships. Each is likely 

 to require its individual trail, telephone line, building and equip- 

 ment. For this allow, say, $1,000 per lookout. Pro-rating this 

 comes to $250 per township. 



Fire tools and tool caches will be needed. Along the main 

 trails where the Ranger Stations happen to be far apart, and in 

 back districts where housing for patrolmen and transients should 

 be provided, small cabins should be available. These will also 

 serve as caches for larger quantities of tools and equipment than 

 the regular fire-tool boxes will accommodate. Allow about 

 ten fire-boxes at $5, tools and equipment for each $20, total 

 for boxes equipped, $150. For the construction of the way- 

 cabins, $200, equipment with stove, bedding, food supplies, patent 

 tool grinder, etc., $100. Total for fire-tools and equipment $450 

 per township. 



Each District Ranger, on this scale, should have his auto- 

 mobile at $1,000 and, say, three saddle and pack horses with their 

 gear, say, $400. Transportation facilities pro-rated then, total 

 $350 per township. 



Other items, such as permanent fire lines, doubtless should be 

 included, but no American forester is likely to feel that the 

 township improved as suggested is under-developed. The items 

 listed sum $50,700, representing the first cost of the improve- 

 ments for one township ; without the road item, $14,700 ; with 

 the mileage of roads replaced by trails $15,600. About 60 per 

 cent of the total cost, as suggested, goes to road construction. 

 This ratio of road cost will prove low. 



If the average township has a stand of 10 M feet b. m. per acre. 



