4 POTLATCII TI.MP.ER PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION 



FINANCES 



The assessments on members this year were over eleven 

 times greater than in 1913, reaching the unprecedented levy of 

 25 1-4 cents per acre. 



We spent slightly over $100,000.00, our average expenses 

 during the greater part of the month of August running over 

 $2,500.00 a day. 



A comparison of some of the principal items entering into 

 the total expenses of this season with those of last year is illum- 

 inating. 



Item. 1914 1913 



Board, Lodging and Horse Feed !...$ 1,720.79 $ 631.10 



Clearing out Old Trails 911.75 U>74.6S 



Fires -.. 82,170.89 241.99 



Patrolling 3,775.50 849.35 



Provisions and Supplies 4.115.21 632.42 



Transportation (Packing, etc.) 2,256.22 624.00 



Camp Equipment and Tools 739.56 132.77 



Total Disbursements of Season 100,217.41 $9,715.28 



The item of "Provisions and Supplies" does not include the 

 expense of feeding the crews on the Bovill fires. These bills 

 were charged direct to the fire account. 



INCENDIARISM 



Last February word was received it was planned to call a 

 strike in the logging camps in the vicinity of St. Maries, Bovill, 

 and Elk River about April 15th. This strike did not materialize. 

 During the late spring and early summer, however, threats and 

 warnings were found printed on the ends of logs and along the 

 roads, trails, and logging spurs. 



Although the debris of the previous winter's logging had 

 been well cleaned up in the spring, some of it having been burned 

 two and three times, about the middle of July an occasional small 

 fire would break out in this area, the cause being shrouded in 

 mystery. These fires showed up with considerable regularity on 

 Monday mornings but at first were thought to have been started 

 from some old stump or log which had possibly held fire since the 

 early spring burning. 



After a number of such small fires had been discovered and 

 put out a man was found who had been making incendiary talks 



