14 ANNUAL REPORT OF 



dry for two weeks. There is much slashing in our town 

 this spring. Should present dry weather continue there 

 will soon be danger of fire here. 



Same, June 26: 



On the 1 4th we had a small fire which was soon put 

 out. It was started at the pulp camps. 



Andrew Larson, chairman, town of Lammers, August 3: 

 July 29th, in the afternoon, a fire on sections 18 and 



19 burned over 600 acres of brush and destroyed about 



20 tons of hay clover and timothy; damage $200. 

 There was also a fire on sections 7 and 8; came from the 

 adjoining township on the west, but did no damage. It 

 has been impossible to extinguish it; but now we have 

 some rain, so I think it is dead now. Weather has been 

 dry the whole summer. I might say this country has 

 never been so dry. I have been out three days around 

 those fires and we thought we had them all out, but 

 when we got a warm day they started up again. The 

 first mentioned fire was supposed to have been started by 

 a railroad locomotive. 



CARLTON COUNTY. 



John Blomberg, chairman, town of Knife Falls, Octo- 

 ber 30: 



On the 4th of June a fire on section i burned over 160 

 acres of brush and light timber. It was thought that the 

 fire was started by the wind from a clearing belonging to 

 a settler living in the same section, who was clearing land 

 and burning brush at the time. It was extinguished in 

 12 hours by the help of eight persons carrying water, 

 digging ditches and covering fire with the dirt; also 

 felling trees. Weather dry and windy; had been dry 

 about 4 weeks. 



