REPORT OF CHIEF FIRE WARDEN 



Coeur d'Alene Fire District 



To the Idaho State Land Board and Coeur d'Alene Timber 

 Protective Association : 



Gentlemen : During the season of 1914 we had patrolmen 

 covering about two-thirds of the total area of the Coeur d'Alene 

 Timber Protective Association district, or 1,250,000 acres. The 

 remainder of the district, comprising about 600,000 acres, was 

 patrolled by the United States Forest Service through the co- 

 operative agreement between the Forest Service and our Asso- 

 ciation. 



We had reported during the season one hundred ninety 

 fires. These fires were caused as follows : 



Settlers burning slash 18 



Logging engines 12 



Logging operations 4 



Donkey engines 2 



Railroad engines 3 



Clearing right-of-way 2 



Sparks from fires in other districts 4 



Old fires not extinguished 1 



Camp fires 5 



Careless smokers 2 



Hunters 2 



Fire crackers 1 



Lightning 115 



Unknown 19 



We estimate not less than one hundred fires extinguished 

 by patrolmen, of which no report has been made. 



The season commenced earlier than usual, owing to the 

 light snowfall during the winter of 1913-14, and which went off 

 rather early in the spring. Our patrol season commenced in 

 May, although we had some few men cutting trail and repairing 

 telephone lines as early as April, and in June we had ten regular 

 patrolmen at work. This number was increased to twenty-nine 

 during July, and held at about that number during August. 



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