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Forest Supervisor Lafferty, of the Weiser Reserve, reports 34 fires during the year 

 1906. It is worthy of note that the total area burned over was only 320 acres, and 

 the total expenses of fighting the fires, outside of the rangers' time, only $47. 



B. F. McConnell, Forest Supervisor of the Priest River Reserve, has assumed 

 charge of the additions on the east of the reserve established by Presidential procla- 

 mation November 6. This increased the area of the Priest River Reserve by 270,880 

 acres. 



Forest Supervisor Haines, of the Lewis and Clark (North) Reserve, has submitted 

 a fire report which shows that the cost of fighting fires in 1906 was only about one- 

 sixth of the cost in 1905. The total area burned over was 904 acres. 



Out of a total of 66 fires on the Lewis and Clark (South) Reserve during 1906, 

 Forest Supervisor Bunker reports 56 to have started from locomotives, 7 from light- 

 ning, 2 from campers, and 1 from brush burning. The cost of fighting fires on this 

 reserve this year was only one-fifth of that of last year, and the area burned over 

 was very much, reduced. 



A railroad speeder used for patrol along the Great Northern Railroad proved an 

 unqualified success. One man patrolled several times the area he could have 

 patrolled on foot or horseback, and he had the additional advantage of having with 

 him at all times his tools and camp equipment. 



Elers Koch, formerly Forest Inspector, has been made Supervisor of the Montana 

 division of the Bitter Root Reserve and the Bitter Root slope of the Hell Gate 

 Reserve, with headquarters at Missoula, Mont. 



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