loss this year would havo "boon 875,000. instoad of 10,350, 

 So wo may say wo saved. $865,000. worth of public property,, 

 Last yoar wo saved 460,000, worth. In 1910, "before wo 

 got down to "business, tho average loss per fire was so much 

 higher than the four-yoar average that tho actual loss is 

 higher than tho hypothetical loss* In 1909 it is $260,000.- 

 This is rather wild figuring I admit, "but to my mind it is 

 significant in ono respect - If we still had sirnly a fire 

 fighting organization instead of a preventive organisation, 

 as wo nust admit we had prior to the Fall of 1910, tho 

 valuo of the property saved, would "bo about half what it is 

 now. 



Can we credit tursolves with any roal result for 

 our missionary nd educational worlc? I en sorry to say 

 that the figures don't loolz very encouraging. Assuming 

 that incendiaries, "brush "burners, earners and lumbermen 

 aro the causes wo should havo reached with our publicity 

 worli, tho totals of firos resulting from tljoso for the last 

 four yoars run 167, 162, 216 and. 233. Tho ir percentages 

 to tho totals, 35$, 30$, 27$ and 29$ look slickly more 

 encouraging. 



Let us stop analyzing figur QS an^ generalize a- 

 while* Thore is one place where we have made a ronarkable 

 advance which can not "be reduced to figures - end that is 



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