them all under very good control, with a total loss of merchant- 

 able timber destroyed, according to reports received, about 

 20,000,000 feet. By September 1st we commenced to reduce our 

 force, which had been very heavy, there being at one time 

 approximatly 500 fire fighters on the line. 



The end of the season came on September 7th, when it 

 began to rain, and all danger was over. 



The season's expense is shown in the report of the Sec- 

 retary, and 70 per cent of it was incurred between August 20th 

 and September 7th. 



During the season we constructed seven and one-half miles 

 of new telephone line, connecting our line previously built from 

 St. Joe to Sec. 30, Tp. 44 N., R. 3 E., with the United States 

 Forest Service line on Marble Mountain in Sec. 24, Tp. 44 N., 

 R. 3 -E. This gives us two outlets for reports. Other lines 

 remain as shown in last year's report, we now having over eighty 

 miles of telephone lines in working order. 



Trail cutting began in April and by the middle of June all 

 old trails were cleared out and such new trails had been cut as 

 was thought necessary to cover our district conveniently. 



This season's experience shows us the need of more trails; 

 in fact, the trails we now have should be connected by cross 

 trails so as to make a more complete net work, thus facilitating 

 movement of men and supplies in case of fires. 



At the time of the electrical storm our chief difficulty was 

 in transporting supplies and tools for the fire fighters. Men 

 were plentiful and willing to walk to the fire line, but it was 

 almost impossible to procure pack horses in sufficient number 

 to take out supplies for them, and we had to use work horses 

 and cayuses until the fire camps were stocked up, and at that 

 our supply train would have been wholly inadequate had it not 

 been for the Decker pack train, which was supplying the Carey 

 & Harper logging camps, and which was turned over to us to 

 use in our emergency. The Association should have more pack 

 horses or should hire some to be held in reserve for just such 

 cases as this. 



There were some few losses of timber products, such as 

 logs, telegraph poles and wood, but these were of comparatively 

 no consequence in the aggregate. 



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