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east side of the track below Fulton Chain, but I have it under con- 

 trol. I have 60 men at the Big Moose fire, and have notified the 

 warden in Long Lake, as it is outside of this town by three miles. 

 The fire at Beaver river is burning slowly, but Bullock is doing good 

 work and keeping it from spreading. It is so far through the woods 

 to the fire on Watson's East Triangle that I have asked Miller to 

 take care of it from the town of Croghan. A new fire started on the 

 land of the Adirondack League Club, caused by a camp fire. It 

 burned fiercely, but to-night I have it down in good shape. Mr. 

 De Camp is very anxious to know what can be done in regard to rais- 

 ing money, but I tell him I don't see as anything can be done at 

 present. He has paid his men upon my orders on bills about $1,000, 

 and he does not want to wait until the town audits the bills for his 

 pay. I wish you would see him in regard to the matter. Many of 

 the fires are greatly exaggerated by people who tell what they hear 

 but who do not go near the fires at all. They say the fires burn over 

 more land than they actually do. A report was made to-day of 1,000 

 acres, when it did not exceed 250 acres that were burned. 



Mr. Riley Parsons, Old Forge, Herkimer county. The way I have 

 done so far is to give the men a regular voucher okayed by me and 

 have them paid by the individuals upon whose land the fire occurred. 

 The latter can turn these vouchers over with the duplicate to the town 

 board when they audit accounts, and I will see that they correspond 

 to the abstract sheet which I keep of them. 



Mr. Duane Norton, Brantingham, Lewis county. We take our 

 tents with us and stay right at the fire line. I tell you we don't lose 

 much ground where we drive our stakes. I have been at work along 

 the Lewis county line and have not been driven back more than half 

 a mile at any time. Mr. Marvin admitted that he set his fallow* on 

 fire Thursday, the 7th. The district firewarden discovered it, and 

 calling out all the available men stopped it in the face of a heavy 

 wind. An hour's delay and it would have been beyond control. He 

 did excellent work, and at the right time. We paid our men $2 per 

 day and board, as we had to keep them in camps and tents along our 

 fire line. Our town board, at my request, came together and bor- 

 rowed $500, and I got two other parties to advance as much more. 

 So you see our men knew they would get their pay as soon as they 

 were through. I tell you I could do as much with that class of men 

 as could be done with a trainload of city men. We took none but 

 thorough woodsmen. 



Mr. D. D. Graham, Harrisville, Lewis county. The air was so 

 full of smoke that we could not see a fresh fire when it started. The 

 whole country seemed to be on fire at once. 



* This man was arrested and fined for burning a fallow in the close season. W. F. F. 



