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covered and checked to their credit, flinders, and by means of his topog- 



They were started as an experiment, raphical chart can tell with remarkable 



the first having been installed at accuracy where the fire is. When he 



Squaw Mountain, a few miles from telephones news of his - discovery to 



Greenville, by William J. Lanigan, of the nearest point from which men can 



Waterville, of the Hollingworth & be sent he can tell the man in charge 



Whitney Company, of Winslow. The of the fire-fighters the location of the 



system is now being extended to take fire so closely that little time is lost in 



in the country east and north of getting to it. There is still a vast ex- 



Moosehead Lake. To this end sta- panse of valuable timberland in the 



tions have been located on Spencer State which is not protected by one of 



and Whitecap mountains. Spencer these stations, but it seems as if the 



Mountain is about ten miles from time is not far distant when every ele- 



Spence'r Bay on the east shore of vation commanding a view of forest 



Moosehead Lake. The observatory is country will be topped with a signal 



placed on the top of the mountain, station for the discovery and location 



which is about 3,000 feet above the of forest fires, 

 sea level. The man at this station has 



a view of about 200,000 acres of tim- Building The United States 



berland in the Moosehead and Penob- Reservoir Sugar and Land com " 



scot watersheds. The station on White- P am / of Colorado 



cap Mountain, which is about ten miles Springs, operating extensively in the 



north of Katahdin Iron Works, was Garden City, Kan., district, has just 



installed bv J. L. Chapman, of Milo. decided to construct a $300,000 reser- 



Whitecap 'is not so high as some of voir twenty-three miles west of Gar- 



the other mountains on which stations den Cit y> and bids f or the work will 



are located, but it rises abruptly out be asked at once. 



of a comparatively level sea of forest The new reservoir will be five miles 



in the northeast corner of Bowdoin long and one and one-half miles at its 



College grant and the station com- widest point. It will have a capacity 



mands a view of some 300,000 acres in excess of 2,000,000,000 feet of wa- 



of timberland on the headwaters of ter, and will furnish supplementary 



the Penobscot and Kennebec. This irrigation to 100,000 acres of land, the 



station is connected by telephone with acre feet capacity being 60,000. Work 



Randall's camps at Roach Pond and will be started next month, and the 



from there connects with Greenville reservoir completed by January 1, in 



over the Moosehead Telephone Com- time for the winter flood waters, 



pany line. Next year it is expected The fall of the Arkansas River is 



that the station on Whitecap will be seven feet a mile in that region, and 



connected by telephone with Katahdin the ditch fall is two and one-half feet, 



Iron Works, from which place men so that the reservoir waters can easily 



can be sent to a fire located by the be conducted eastward through the 



station quicker than they could be sent sugar beet lands of the company, to- 



from Greenville. These mountain ob- ward the huge refinery at Garden City, 



servatories are becoming a great factor This refinery, said to be the most 



in the protection of the Maine forests, complete in the world, will be finished 



The expense of installing the stations October 1, the cost being $1,000,000. 



is not great, averaging about $750. The plant will be equipped with the 



All the stations are equipped with the new Steffens process of manufacture, 



most approved range-finders and with and its capacity will be 800 tons a day. 



a topographical chart of all the coun- The company has 6,400 acres of sugar 



try that can be seen. If the man at beet crops, which will be ready for the 



the station sights the smoke of a for- plant October 1. and nearly 80,000 



est fire on his territory he can locate tons will be treated. Next year double 



the distance by means of his range- that amount will be handled. 



