FORESTRY COMMISSIONER. 25 



was extinguished by five persons setting back fires and 

 plowing. The weather has been dry and windy all 

 spring. 



N. R. Carper, chairman, town of Wing River, April 22: 



On the 2oth instant about three o'clock a fire on sec- 

 tion 1 7 caused by a settler clearing brush land and from 

 whom the fire got away, burned over 500 acres and did 

 damage amounting to $15. It was extinguished by teams 

 plowing and by whipping it out. The settler promptly 

 paid the damage in full satisfaction to the loser and would 

 have paid the parties who stopped the fire but they would 

 not take pay, as he is a minister. The weather has been 

 very dry for about two weeks. 



FORESTRY COMMISSIONER. 



Chapter XXII of the Revised Laws of Minnesota, 1905, 

 which went into effect March ist, 1906, changed the title 

 of the Chief Fire Warden to that of Forestry Commission- 

 er. It authorizes the State Auditor to appoint such officer 

 and makes his duties the same as had been required of the 

 Chief Fire Warden, except that it expressly requires him 

 to ' ' disseminate information concerning forestry. " The 

 Chief Fire Warden was appointed, and entered upon his 

 duties as Forestry Commissioner March 8th, 1906. 



SHORES OF CROOKED LAKE AND OF LAC LA CROIX. 



In the latter part of June and first part of July, 1905, I 

 made a trip by canoe along a portion of the northern 

 boundary of the State and from occasional landings and 

 ascent to high points was enabled to see the character of 

 quite an extent of the interior. The route was via Fall, 

 Basswood and Crooked lakes into Lac La Croix, thence 



