.150 



REPOllT OF TJIK 



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The administration of the Kegulations in the Permit Area has heen quite 

 satisfactory this season. But 38 fires were reported as originating from settlers' 

 clearing operations within the Permit Area. Of these, 17 were due to fires set 

 out under permit and escaping from control, burning over 420 acres. The other 

 11 fires were cases of transgression of the Permit Kegulations, some of them 

 where permits had lapsed, the settler not clearly understanding the provisions. 

 Five prosecutions were made and conviction registered in all. 



(6) Improvement Worl\ 



The new projects carried out this season were : 



New trails constructed 304 miles 



Rangers' cabins, 12 ft. by 16 ft 58 



Boat houses 2 



Lookout towers 12 



Railway motor car house 1 



Auto garage 1 



Nipigon storeliouse, boathouse and office. 



The improvement work was carried out largely with ranger labour, the total 

 cost being $4,380. 



(7) Equipment. 



The major items of equipment added this year were as follows: Five Ford 

 auto trucks; five portable fire pumps; six large boats; three railway motor cars; 

 thirty-six railway velocipedes; one hundred tents; sixty-five canoes: blankets, 

 1,835 pounds. 



The usual fire signs were sent out, together with 10,000 copies of a new 

 sign. Two thousand large calendars were distributed for educational effect. A 

 booklet of General Instructions for all field officers was prepared and sent out. 



(8) Eailwaij Inspection Under BM.C. 



A change was made this year in the handling of the work of the Board of 

 Pailway Commissioners for Canada. The special position of B.R.C. Inspector 

 was abolished, and the Board work added to the duties of the Chief Rangers, with 

 the exception of inspection of fire protective appliances on locomotives. This part 

 of the work was looked after by two inspectors who devoted their whole attention 

 to it, because, as already pointed out, approximately half of Ontario's forest fires 

 for the past two seasons, have been of railway origin. The locomotive inspection 

 facts are tabulated below. 



Locomotive Inspections, 1918 



♦Number in brackets are corresponding figures for 1917. 



