18 ANNUAL REPORT OF 



CLEARWATER COUNTY. 



Alfred Forander, chairman, town of Moose Creek, May 23: 

 About noon the i6th instant a fire on section 34 burned 

 over 1 60 acres of heavy and light timber; destroyed 5 or 

 6 cords of wood. 



Same, June 5; 



May 23d a fire on section 35 burned over 80 acres and 

 destroyed about 500 poplars of pole size. There is a big 

 slough one mile across and four miles long and the fire 

 came in on us from that slough. It was extinguished in 

 three hours by back-firing. The wind was high. 



F. A. Norquist, chairman, town of Pine Lake, August 10: 

 It is very dry here this summer. 



Same, August 24: 



The weather has been quite dry until to-day, it is 

 raining hard. 



O. J. Larson, chairman, town of Shevlin, July 30: 



A fire on section 13 (township 147, range 36), July 15, 

 burned over 120 acres of brush land; no damage. It was 

 caused by burning brush piles. As the weather was very 

 dry and windy part of the time it could not be put out, 

 but was kept under control until it rained. Weather dry 

 for about a month and windy part of the time. 



COOK COUNTY. 



Ole E. Erickson, chairman, town of Hovland, June 29: 



June 7th a fire, cause unknown, burned over 640 acres 

 of principally green timber on sections 1 1 and 1 2 ; damage 

 $1,000. It was extinguished June i6th by the help of six 

 persons, five being part of a lumber crew. It was kept 

 back in the daytime as best we could, but at night and 

 early morning we could do the most active work. There 

 was a good deal of dry, fallen cedar. There had been 

 about two weeks or more of dry weather before the fire 



