REPORT OF FIRE COMMITTEE 



Coeur d'Alene Timber Protective 

 Association 



SEASON OF 1913 



Gentlemen: After eight years of co-operative effort 

 we are pleased to report our organization stronger than 

 ever, our members firm in the faith, and the season's oper- 

 ation the most successful in our history. Embracing as it 

 does one and three-quarters million acres of land extending 

 from Coeur d'Alene Lake to the various sources of the three 

 large rivers, the St. Joe, the St. Maries and the Coeur 

 d'Alene, thus including the entire Coeur d'Alene Lake 

 drainage, our district is not an easy one to care for. With 

 revenue acreage of 581,597 acres we patrol two-thirds of 

 this whole area, the remainder being adequately cared for 

 by the United States Forest Service, and the total loss by 

 fire of merchantable timber within the district during the 

 past season will not exceed one hundred dollars in value. 



Our 1913 work began as soon as the snow went off 

 sufficiently to permit travel upon the trails with horses. 

 Our first work being the clearing out of trails and repairing 

 of telephone lines, both of which were in extremely bad 

 condition owing to the deep snow and many wind storms 

 of last winter. As soon as the trails were opened the tele- 

 phone lines of the Association were repaired, and in June 

 a new line of about six miles, extending from Sec. 3 1 , Tp. 

 5 1 N.. R. 1 W. to Sec. 1 6, T P . 5 1 N., R. 2 W., was built 

 to connect the line built by us in 1912 to the first named 

 point, with a line built by the United States Forest Service 

 from Hayden Lake to the last named point. This extension 

 gives us a continuous line of telephone from Wallace, Mur- 

 ray and other Coeur d'Alene River points, directly across 

 the main portion of the Coeur d'Alene River basin to Hay- 

 den Lake and Coeur d'Alene, thus assuring service even in 

 time of storm or fire, as either outlet can be used as needed. 

 No other new telephone line was constructed during 191 3. 



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