LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



Chapel Hill, ^^. C, August 1, 1911. 



To His Excellency, Honorable W. W. Kitchin, 



Governor of North Carolina. 

 SiK : — I herewith submit for i^ublication as Economic Paper 22 of 

 the reports of the Xorth Carolina Geological and Economic Survey a 

 report on Forest Fires and their Prevention, including statistics regard- 

 ing Forest Fires in J^Torth Carolina during 1910, which has been pre- 

 pared bj Mr. J. S. Holmes, Forester to the Survey. The statistics are 

 more complete and accurate than those collected for 1909 and mora 

 intelligent answers were received from inquiries during this second year 

 of collection. Yours respectfully, 



Joseph Hyde Pkatt, 



State Geologist. 





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