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not be as great. It is estimated that about 12 miles of these fire lines 

 will be sufficient. These lines will not stop a fire unaided, but they 

 are convenient places at which to make a stand in cases- where the fire 

 has too much of a start to permit of its being extinguished in the 

 woods. 



SUPERINTENDENCE. 



To carry out the provisions of the above report will require several 

 years' time and some thousands of dollars in money. The work 

 should have, at the commencement at least, the supervision of a 

 trained man. Foresters do not come high. An active young man 

 with a college training can be secured at a salary of approximately 

 $1,000 a year. He should have as a permanent assistant some man 

 fond of outdoor work and life in the woods. Temporary help needed 

 in the work of planting and cutting can be hired from time to time. 

 The pay of the assistant would all be included in the general expense 

 of the several lines of work. The professional forester would not be 

 wholly an extra expense, and about one-half of his salary, representing 

 the value of his manual work, should be credited to the expense of the 

 work already estimated; the other half represents the value of his 

 professional knowledge, and is an additional charge. If this work 

 were spread over a period of five years, this additional charge would 

 be $2,500. It would be quite essential that the forester have the use 

 of a stout horse and wagon, for hauling plant material, carting away 

 brush from fire lines, carrying the fire apparatus, etc. This repre- 

 sents a charge of about $200 a year, which includes the cost of keeping 

 and something for depreciation on the outfit. 



If it is not considered feasible to hire a permanent forester to super- 

 vise the work, it might be possible to engage the services of a consulting 

 forester, who would give a specified amount of time to the supervision 

 of the forestry work on the watershed. Such contracts, we believe, 

 often exist between park departments and landscape architects. Of 

 course the cost of such supervision would depend entirely on the 

 agreement made by the Reservoir Commission and the consulting 

 forester; but the figure $500 used in the tables below ought amply to 

 cover this item of expense. 



FINANCIAL SUMMARY. 



Net cost 'of thinning work, ........ $4,100 to $7,300 



Cost of planting work, . . . . . . . . 4,000 to 5,000 



Fire protection: 



Apparatus, $100; fire lines, $450 to $600; watch tower, $50, . . 600 to 800 



Net cost of services of a forester, five years, ..... 2,500 



Use of horse and wagon, five years, ....... 1,000 



$12,000 to $16,600 



