66 COMMISSION OF CONSERVATION 



The region could be effectively protected from fire with a small 

 outlay of money in proportion to the value of the property involved. 

 The topography of the country affords numerous excellent sites 

 for look-out stations, and the numerous rural telephone lines would 

 render very effective assistance. 



The following places are suggested as good points for such look-out 

 stations : a point between Devil lake and Dixon lake commands a 

 \'iew of the major portion of Cashel within the watershed, and the 

 eastern portion of Limerick. It is 8 miles from the telephone at St. Ola 

 and 2 miles from a farmhouse where the look-out man could stay. 

 The diorite ridge in Tudor on the Hastings road drops off in a sheer 

 precipice 200 feet or more. A tower 30 feet high on the edge of this 

 bluff would give a view of the greater portion of the townships 

 of Tudor and Lake. The village of Millbridge, with a telephone line, is 

 about four miles distant and there are farmhouses within two miles. 



A sub-station might be established on 'The Ridge' in the south 

 central portion of WoUaston. This is a farming area and a farmer 

 could be employed. Any one of the several farmers on the ridge could, 

 from his farm, see the southern half of Wollaston, the northwestern 

 portion of Lake, and portions of Limerick and Chandos. In the 

 northeastern comer of Wollaston are some high hills which command 

 a view of northern Wollaston, northwestern Limerick and southern 

 Faraday. Here, a look-out station could be constructed within two 

 miles of a farmhouse, and could be connected with the telephone at 

 Coehill, a distance of four miles. 



The Green mountains in southern Glamorgan are 250 feet above 

 the general level and present a view which covers the southern half of 

 Glamorgan and Monmouth and the northern portions of Cavendish 

 and Anstruther. They are within two miles of farms and could be con- 

 nected by telephone with Gooderham, four miles distant. 



From the Blue mountains in the west central portion of Methuen, 

 one can see practically the whole of that township, as well as the western 

 portion of Lake, the eastern portion of Burleigh, and the southeastern 

 portion of Anstruther. The hills are within four miles of a farm- 

 house and within 8 miles of Apsley, the nearest telephone connection. 



In lot 22, concession viii, of Harvey, there is a high point which 

 commands a view of the eastern portion of that township and the 

 western portion of Burleigh, besides part of southern Cavendish. In a 

 straight line, it is 5 miles from the nearest telephone connection at 

 Hall Bridge. 



About a mile and a half east of Bass lake in Galway, a knob rises 

 about 200 feet above the general level, and, from its summit, one can see 

 all the southern half of the township, the northeastern portion of Har- 



