1925 



DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS 



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Railways are known to have caused 140 fires or 16.5 per cent, of the total, 

 the same number as charged to campers. Due to the splendid co-operation 

 received from the railway companies, however, the fires due to railway agencies 

 burned over a very small area. 



The fires of railway origin were distributed as follows: — 



AVERAGE NUMBER OF RAILWAY FIRES PER HUNDRED MILES OF LINE 

 THROUGH FOREST SECTIONS 



Railway 



1921 



Canadian National Railways (exclusive of northern line) . . 



Canadian Pacific Railway 



Canadian National Railways (northern transcontinental 



line only) 



Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway 



Algoma Eastern Railway 



Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway 



•=3.7 

 3.9 



1.8 

 6.3 

 5.9 

 0.6 



3.7 



*Former C.N.R. and G.T.R. figures combined. 



*Former C.N.R. and G.T.R. figures combined. 



Lightning is known to have caused twenty-eight fires or 3.3 per cent, of 

 the total. 



Logging operations were responsible for sixty-one fires or 7.1 per cent, of 

 the total. 



Miscellaneous known causes were responsible for seventy-seven fires or 

 9.0 per cent, of the total. 



Fires of unknown origin numbered 274 or 32.2 per cent, of the total. As 

 the efficiency of the protective organization increases the percentage of the 

 total number of fires charged to unknown causes should decrease. 



A total of 851 fires were reported with an area burned of 146,017 acres. 

 Of this total area, 101,739 acres or 69.6 per cent, were in the Western Inspectorate. 



Of the 851 fires, 563 or 66.2 per cent, were confined to areas of five acres 

 or less in extent, 90.6 per cent, to areas of 100 acres or less, and 96.5 percent, 

 to areas of 500 acres or less. While the low hazard unquestionably affected the 



