Canadian Forestrij Journal, January, 1917 



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ping when changing it from place 

 to place. We also used it to 

 extinguish two other small fires. 

 "We generally transport the 

 apparatus on our motor speeder 

 to the point nearest the fire, 

 then the rest of the route is 

 covered by canoe or by men on 

 foot along the portages. The 

 pump was a grand success." 

 This particular type of apparatus 

 and manner of employing same is a 

 decided departure from anything that 

 has been previously attempted, and 

 so far as the writer is able to ascertain 

 no forest organization in Canada or 

 the United States have yet brought 

 forward a portable pumping appar- 

 atus, that for portability, compact- 

 ness and efficiency, can approach the 

 apparatus under discussion. 



The field in which the internal 

 combustion engine can be utilized 

 in connecting it up to pumping appar- 

 atus for use in the forest is very wide 

 and in working out a scheme of forest 

 fire protection in which such pump- 

 ing apparatus is proposed to be used, 

 is not limited by any means to the 

 portable units under discussion. Larg- 

 er outfits can be used, pumping more 

 water per given time, at a greater 

 pressure and through a longer length 

 of hose line. Such outfits would be 

 less portable and in consequence 

 could only be used along the main 

 routes of travel such as roads, rail- 

 ways, lakes and rivers. To secure 

 this, a different type of pump and 

 method of connecting same up to the 

 engine will have to be adopted. This 

 scheme is already under development 

 and it is proposed to employ larger 

 and heavier outfits along valley bot- 

 toms and by using three to four thou- 

 sand feet of hose deliver water back 

 into the higher territory and then 

 use the present lighter and more port- 

 able units from that point on into 

 the rougher ground behind. 



Fires on St. Maurice 

 In the territory of the St Maurice 

 Forest Protective Association in 1916, 

 200 fires for the season were caused 

 as follows: 



Settlers 00 



Railways . 77 383^% 



Laborers 28 14 % 



200 Fires 



The cost of extinguishing fires in 

 1914 was $13,004.32; m 191o, S7,329.- 

 47 and in 1916 $2,759.71, thereby 

 showing progress made in patrol 

 efficiency. 



Pumping from a smalFcreek in the Rocliy 

 Mountains Park. 



