Aft or tho season of 1911 I wondered whether we had 

 materially increased our firo protection efficiency or had 

 played in luck, How I IDIOW. Me increased it. Lot no 

 show you some averages. Wo wolro up in tho winter of 1910- 

 11 to tho fact that we really ought to do something a"bout 

 this fire protoctlcn lousiness. IPor the preceding throe 

 seasons wo had averaged 519 fires, "burning ovor 391 acros 

 apieco or a total of 08,273 acres a year going up in smolie, 

 For the last two seasons we have averaged 796 firos (77 

 moro a yoar) each covering 96 acros (295 acros loss) or a 

 total of 76,815 acros (131,450 acres less) a year "burned 



ever. 



I thinli that T s doing something* 



Tho real measure of the valuo of firo protection 

 is the worth of the property saved - This is a figure that 

 we cannot get at, of course, "but just for the salro of com- 

 parison let us assume that all the money loss was caused 

 "by the Glass C fires, that every fire would have destroyed 

 as much as each Class firo if there had "been no prevention 

 organization and that the difference "between this hypothet- 

 ical loss and the real loss is the value of tho property 



we saved. 



Based on tho last four years 1 figures, tho average 

 money damage dono "by each Class fire is $650. If all 

 cf the firos this soason had dono this much damage, the 



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