FORESTRY COMMISSIONER. 21 



Classification of causes: 

 Burning meadows, 4. 

 Camp fires, 3. 

 Railroad locomotives, 9. 

 Other causes, 4. 

 Unknown 19. 



REPORT OF FIRE WARDENS AND OTHERS OF PRAIRIE- 

 FIRES FOR 1905. 



CLAY COUNTY. 



Jorgen Jensen, chairman town of Moland, November 18: 



On the 1 5th instant a fire originating on section 31 in 

 town 141, range 46, being the town of Flowing, burned over 

 640 acres in the northeast part of this town and destroyed 

 hay in stack of value variouslyesti mated up to $2,500. It 

 was extinguished with the* help of twenty-two persons and 

 two teams by breaking and burning. It had been dry a 

 long time. Wind very heavy. The fire would have done 

 more damage if it could have got over the Great Northern 

 tracks. 



Same November 24: 



I went to the party accused of setting the fire and had 

 a talk with him about it. He agreed to go with me before 

 a justice of the peace and plead guilty to the charge of be- 

 ing careless and causing fire, so I took him to Moorhead 

 and he was fined $5. 



KITTSON COUNTY. 



B. Nelson, chairman, town of Percy, April 25: 



On the 1 9th instant at noon a fire burned over about 

 4000 acres of brush and meadow land. The only damage 



