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(8) Improvements 



Advantage was taken of the wet season to push forward the lookout tower 

 and telephone system and the completion of several necessary buildings. A 

 total of twenty-six steel towers and over four hundred miles of telephone lines 

 were erected. 



The use of wireless as a means of communication has been most satisfactory. 

 Four stations were installed in the District of Patricia in 1927 and these were 

 added to during the past season, stations being opened at Swain's lake, Savant 

 lake and Fort Hope. 



In such a remote district, with no other means of communication, it was 

 inevitable that a demand would be made for the transmission of private messages 

 through these wireless stations which were intended primarily for forest pro- 

 tection. So great became this demand that it was found necessary last season 

 to inaugurate a charge system for all private messages. The revenue derived 

 from this source is practically sufficient to carry the wireless service. 



In addition to the wireless stations in operation in the District of Patricia 

 two stations were installed in Temagami Forest Reserve, one at the Chief Ranger 

 Headquarters at Temagami and the other thirty miles distant at a steel lookout 

 tower on Maple mountain in Rorke Township. 



Permanent Improvements 



Completed to October 31st, 1928 



Cabins 256 



Storehouses 51 



Boathouses 28 



Combined Storehouses and Boathouses, etc 10 



Bunkhouses 35 



0%es 13 



Garages 41 



Other Buildings 58 



Hose Towers , 36 



Wooden Lookout Towers 137 



Steel Lookout Towers 68 



Permanent Telephone Lines (miles) 1,942 



Temporary Telephone Lines (miles) 136 



(9) Air Operations 



Aircraft continue to be an important supplement to the regular organization 

 as a means of fire control. With increasingly better means of ground detection, 

 however, aircraft are becoming of less importance as a means of detection and 

 of increasing importance as a means of transportation, especially in the more 

 remote areas. 



During the past season machines werje located as follows: — 



Goldpines 2 H.S.2 L's. 



Sioux Lookout 3 H.S.2 L's. 



2 Moths. 



Kenora 1 H.S.2 L. 



1 Moth. 



Fort Frances 1 H.S.2 L. 



Shebandowan Lake- 1 H.S.2 L. 



Orient Bay 1 H.S.2 L. 



Longlac 1 H.S.2 L. 



Oba Lake 1 H.S.2 L. 



1 Moth. 



