18 POTLATCH TIMBER PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION 



eight miles from the town. Bovill was the base of supplies and 

 operations. 



We had a very hot fire in Sections 19, 20, 28, 29, and 30, Twp. 

 38 N., R. 1 E., which was discovered August 8th by Patrolman 

 Mitchell from his lookout in Sec. 17 of this township. The high 

 wind of August 12th put the fire into the tree tops after it had 

 been trenched and partially covered up and it ran two miles and 

 a half in about two hours. 



This fire burned over 472 acres, fire killing 7,347,000 feet of 

 merchantable timber, none of which can be logged. Of the area 

 burned 147 acres had been previously burned over or had no tim- 

 ber of value on it. The area of merchantable timber burned over 

 amounted to 325 acres. 



This fire was about a mile and a half south of the southern 

 boundary of our association, being wholly in the territory of the 

 Clearwater association. Owing to the isolation of this locality 

 from the other territory of the Clearwater association an ar- 

 rangement was made last spring between myself and Chief Fire 

 Warden Swanson, of the Clearwater association, whereby we 

 undertook to patrol the south half of Twp. 38 X., R. 1 E., with the 

 understanding that we were to be reimbursed for any extra ex- 

 pense we might incur in fighting fires. We spent $5,419.28 on 

 this fire, for which the Clearwater association sent us a remittance 

 as soon as our bill was rendered and audited. 



Another large fire occurring outside of our boundaries was 

 one which burned over portions of Sections 22, 23, 24, 25, 26. 27, 



35, and 36, Tw.p. 39 N., R. 1 W. This fire was started by a 

 homesteader burning his slashings and gave us considerable trou- 

 ble to get it under control. Ordinarily we would not have been 

 justified in fighting such a fire outside of our own territory, but 

 this one started within a couple of miles of our western boundary 

 at this point and the high west winds prevailing at the time made it 

 a serious menace to a large body of fine young second growth tim- 

 ber on our side of the meridian. The fire burned 1,249 acres, 

 doing consjderable damage to 18,753,000 feet of merchantable tim- 

 ber, none of which can be logged. 



One of the largest fires we had in point of area burned over 

 covered portions of Sections 9, 10, 15, 16, 23, 24, 25, 26, 35, and 



36, Twp. 40 N., R. 4 W. The cause of this fire is not positively 

 known, but it is thought it was started by some homesteader 

 burning his slashings. It burned over 1,801 acres of yellow pine, 

 red fir and tamarack timber, aggregating about 13,712,000 feet. 

 How much damage was done to this timber remains to be seen, 

 for none of these three varieties is very easily fire killed. Being on 

 the south side of the Moscow Mountains, the fire got very hot 

 in places, however, and it is possible that a considerable part of 



