Thin 1 .: a minute, oaoli cno of you, of tho number of 

 owners of timber within your Forest, How mauy are not 

 $oing as muoli as wo are toward protecting thoir timber?. 

 Gan T t you think of some way by which oaoh ono who is not 

 can "be reached? 



In Districts 1 and 6 the lumbermen, through associ- 

 ation patrol, aro spending from twice to throo times as rauch 

 as tho Service is spending per aero in fire protection, I 

 have just returned from tho Annual Forest Fire Conference 

 of these allied protective -Icsociations in Seattle, There 

 wore ever 00 nen gathered together, representing lumber 

 companies, loggers, fire patrol associations, railroads, 

 State and Federal Forest Services, and - host significant 

 of all ~ tho biggest t inter 'bonding house in the country, 

 Prom tho r oporto and tails you couldn T t toll it from a 

 Supervisors 1 meeting - except for ono tiling* Tho lumber- 

 men *e reports on the details of their fire protection work 

 shored a little bettor business management, a little more 



progroscivonoss than ours.- 



At that 1917 Supervisors 1 mooting that I 'was speak- 

 ing of, lot r s join tho lumbermen in thoir annual Forest 

 Fire Conference hero in San Francisco, and lot r s have tho 

 California lumbemon T s patrol reports read just a little 

 bettor than any others, 



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