No. 4.] 



REPORT OF STATE FORESTER. 



281 



Comparative Causes op Forest Fires for the Past Three Years. 



Causes. 



Unknown, .... 



Railroad 



Burning brush, 



Smokers, hunters, berry pickers. 



Steam sawmills, . 



Children, .... 



Miscellaneous, 



Too late for tabulation. 



Totals 



1909. 



Num- 

 ber. 



360 

 497 

 149 

 140 

 5 



92 

 190 



63 



1,495 



Per 

 Cent. 



25.1 

 34.7 

 10.4 



9.7 

 .5 



6.4 

 13.2 



100.0 



1910. 



Num- 

 ber. 



413 

 362 

 203 

 12t 

 1 

 75 

 78 

 129 



1,385 



Per 

 Cent. 



32.9 

 28.8 

 16.2 

 9.9 

 .1 

 5.9 

 6.2 



100.0 



Num- 

 ber. 



1,128 

 685 

 135 

 158 

 3 

 118 

 309 



Per 

 Cent. 



44.5 

 27.0 

 5.3 

 6.2 

 .1 

 4.7 

 12.2 



100.0 



Forest Fires of 1911. 



United States Government Am. 



The Weeks bill, so called, recently passed by Congress, providing for 

 the purchase of portions of the White Mountain and Appalachian Moun- 

 tain regions to be held as government reservations, also carried an appro- 

 priation of S200,000 for the protection against forest fires of the water- 

 sheds of navigable streams in the United States. One thousand eight 

 hundred dollars of this appropriation was allotted to the State of Mas- 



