CHIEF FIRE WARDEN. 33 



tons standing; damage $125. It was extinguished in 

 three hours with the help of fifteen or twenty persons by 

 plowing and by using wet sacks. Weather windy and 

 dry; had been dry for a long time. 



MARSHALL COUNTY. 



Bernhard Knudsen, chairman, town of Agder, No- 

 vember 2 : 



In October a prairie fire burned over about 1,000 acres 

 of swamp but destroyed nothing of value. The weather 

 was dry and windy the whole of last month. 



Chas. Warner, chairman, town of Augsburg, No- 

 vember 14: 



On the loth of August a fire caused by two boys trying 

 to burn around their haystack in section i burned over 

 620 acres and destroyed three stacks of hay; damage $50, 

 It was extinguished in eight hours by ten persons with 

 plows and wet sacks. Weather quite windy. 



Amund Johnson, chairman, town of Foldal, October 15 : 



On the loth instant about 10 o'clock a. m., a fire sup- 

 posed to have started from an old burning strawstack 

 spread over 200 acres of brush and prairie and destroyed 

 one haystack; damage $25. The weather was dry, with 

 strong wind. 



Henry Roller, chairman, town of Grand Plain, October 



2 i : 



October i8th a fire set by hunters burned over 500 

 acres of prairie and swamp in township 156, range 42. 

 It was extinguished in two days by twelve persons by 

 plowing, back firing and beating with wet sacks. A 

 dwelling house was saved and 150 tons of hay. Weather 

 very dry and windy and had been dry most of the time. 



