Many look-out towers have been erected, and a larger 

 number, as well as some telephone lines, are in process of 

 construction. Trails are being cut out and canoe routes 

 improved to furnish quick means of communication in dis- 

 tricts heretofore practically impassable. Wagon roads are 

 being encouraged by substantial assistance in the actual 

 clearing out of the timber where the roads will serve as 

 valuable fire lines. Several fire lines other than wagon 

 roads are being cut out in places where they will play an 

 important part in preventing the spread of fires in danger- 

 ous localities. Canoe routes are being mapped as well as 

 improved, and portages fixed up so that they will no longer 

 have to be dreaded by the traveler. Good camping places 

 are designated, with the idea of persuading people to use the 

 same sites and thus minimize the danger of greatly strung-out 

 or scattered camp fires along the routes of travel. Crude 

 but safe outdoor fire-places are thrown together by the patrol- 

 ment for the use of campers in localities much used. 



The railroads have been brought to realize that a busi- 

 ness-like system of fire protection is a paying proposition, 

 and they have organized special forces of patrolmen mounted 

 on speeders and placed where the district rangers feel that 

 they will be most effective. These places are, of course, on 

 the heavy grades and along sections of the tracks peculiarly 

 susceptible to the starting of fires. The companies are also 

 paying much more attention than formerly to the question 

 of spark arresters on their locomotives. At least two new 

 spark arresting devices of great promise have been produced 

 within the last three months by the master mechanics of 

 railroad companies within the State. 



In the construction of new railroads, wagon roads, trails, 

 etc., the brush is no longer piled along the outside of the 

 right-of-way to serve as a fire-trap, but is required to be 

 burned as construction proceeds. 



In the summer logging being done this season on a large 

 scale because of the large quantities of timber killed by last 

 summer's fires, the slash has been either burned as the log- 

 ging progressed, or piled ready for burning late in the fall 



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