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$100. It was caused by burning old grass and v/as ex- 

 tinguished in five hours with the help of three persons. 

 Weather dry and windy and had been dry about twenty 

 days. The past fifteen days were very dry and smokey. 

 Heavy smoke hung over the land most of the time. 

 Many small fires kept me continually on the lookout. 



CASS COUNTY. 



Chris Burns, fire warden, Cass Lake, June 5: 



On May 8th I patrolled between Cass Lake and Fer- 

 ris on both sides of track; found everything all right. 

 On Qth heard of a farmer two miles west burning slash- 

 ings and proceeding there found he had lost control of 

 the fire, although working hard himself, wife, one girl 

 and two boys. I hastened back to railroad and got sec- 

 tion crew and we fought it with the farmer's help and got 

 it under control. Weather was calm or it might have 

 done great damage. We were at it about three hours. 

 The loth came back by way of Wolf Lake to Cass Lake 

 and saw no fires; i ith came to Cass Lake and was called 

 to Ball Club on the G. N. railroad about thirty miles 

 from Cass Lake; found a man had been burning brush 

 after his logging operations and the fire got away from 

 him and burned over probably 200 or 300 acres; also 

 burned sixty thousand feet of lumber on skids belonging 

 to another party and pretty nearly burned his dwelling 

 and outhouses. The fire spent itself on the east by Ball 

 Club river and on the north by the G. N. railroad. 

 Stayed at Ball Club three days patrolling and putting 

 out fire in rotten logs; i5th patrolled to Six Mile Lake and 

 return; i6th to Leech Lake dam and return; i8th 

 returned from Bena to Cass Lake; 2 9th patrolled to 

 Cuba and Santiago and cautioned a lumber com- 

 pany where they were logging about brush burning. The 



