During the summer we looked after the burning of 

 1000 acres of slashings for H. P. Samuels of lola; it was 

 piled up in good shape; Mr. Samuels furnished the men 

 and myself and deputies looked after it, as most of the 

 burning was done near timber belonging to Association 

 members. 



On gathering up the horses this spring I found that 

 we need a couple more, and purchased two at good bar- 

 gains, paying $55 for a two-year-old mare with saddle, and 

 paying $45 for another. We needefl three saddles, so made 

 a trip to Spokane and purchased three good ones for $50. 

 Two or three of the old horses are not in very good shape, 

 and I would advise selling them in the spring. 



On the first of June put on five Deputy Wardens un- 

 der the Weeks Law Provision; these men were paid by the 

 Federal Service under the Weeks Law Provision until 

 Aug. 19th; thereafter were paid by the Association, as 

 the $1000 had been expended. About the middle of June 

 commenced puttting on the balance of the patrolmen, and 

 by the 7th of July had all the men placed in their dif- 

 ferent districts. On July 22nd considered it advisable to 

 put another man in the Blanchard district, which I did. 

 Wardens on patrol cleared out the trails in each district. 

 Put on four additional patrolmen in the Priest Lake coun- 

 try to patrol the State selections in that district. During 

 the season had 23 wardens employed. 



Issued 210 fire permits during the season in the dis- 

 trict, and 157 in the Forest Reserves, through the Forest 

 Supervisors. Permits ranged, from one to fifty acres, 

 which goes to show that there was considerable burning 

 done during the dry season; there was no damage done, 

 and we had no trouble with any of this burning. 



Stationed only one man at the head of Spirit Lake, 

 where in former years there had been two, and did not 

 consider it necessary to put a man at Fish Lake this 

 season, instructing the Spirit Lake Warden to look after 

 that territory. During the season took one man from the 

 Lightning Creek district and sent him over to patrol the 

 Grouse Creek territory to fill a vacancy there; saving the 

 cost of three men during the summer. 



Humbird Lumber Company loaned the Association the 

 use of two telephones, one of which I placed on Section 



