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REPORT OF THE 



No. 3 



AVERAGE NUMBER OF RAILWAY FIRES PER HUNDRED MILES OF LINE 



THROUGH FOREST SECTIONS 



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



Railway 



Canadian National Railways (exclusive of northern 

 line) 



Canadian Pacific Railway 



Canadian National Railways (northern transcon- 

 tinental line only) 



Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway 



Algoma Eastern Railway 



Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway 



Nipissing Central Railway 



Miscellaneous Private Railways 



Per cent, of Total Number of 

 Railway Fires 



1926 



29.7 

 46.6 



6.8 

 5.9 



9.3 



1.7 



100.0 



1925 1924 



38.3 

 29.7 



1.6 



3.1 



6.2 



15.6 



5.5 



100.0 



50.3 

 21.9 



3.0 

 •8.8 



5.1 

 10.9 



100.0 



1923 1922 1921 1920 



45.9 



32.5 



7.6 

 9.6 

 0.4 

 4.0 



100.0 



*36.1 

 25.3 



13 



14 

 2.4 

 8.4 



100.0 



*47.9 

 29.8 



7.9 



10.6 



2.8 



1.0 



100.0 



^36.4 

 27.9 



16.4 

 9.9 

 5.0 



4.4 



100.0 



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



