A Fire Break in Beltrami County 



be made from the timber and still preserve it to such an 

 extent that 100 years hence forestry preservation and timber 

 production will be so advanced that the yield and revenue 

 will be greater in the same territory than today. 



Precautions that are Taken. 



"Railways have been charged in the past with starting 

 many of the forest fires. A story often told soon comes to 

 be believed by .most of the people. Let us see what we have 

 done to minimize the starting of fires from our locomotives. 

 We have cleared the right of way as closely as possible, and 

 all slashings from this clearing are disposed of before the 

 clearing gangs leave the work, so that no possible precaution 

 is left undone. The most modern and approved spark arrest- 

 ers have been adopted for use on our locomotives; waste 

 water of the locomotive is run through the ash pan so that no 

 live coals are dumped. But the greatest advance in forest 

 protection has been the adoption of oil as fuel in the heavily 

 timbered mountain sections. Locomotives on two of the 

 mountain divisions burn oil exclusively and those on divisions 



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