they were not complete enough, and rhile we had a number 

 of fires it was not the fault of the plane in any way. 

 We need more men to reduce the cost of fires. I have 

 had very good success with cooperation. In several 

 instances when I was array parties sent crews to fight 

 fires and rendered ^roat assistance. Late in the season 

 some of the people seemed to take advantage of the 

 absence of the forest officer. On October 19 I went to 

 7/aehin^ton. A fire started in the canyon. On investi- 



Sr.tions we found there were five different fires started, 

 e had absolutely no proof to rork on, but they were 

 undoubtedly of incendiary origin. You can see by that 

 where there are many cases where en ifler.l fire plan with 

 money enough would rreatly reduce the incendiarism* I 

 believe it would be a good idea for some patrolmen to 

 take a portable telephone with them. In this way it 

 will not be necessary to ride ten miles to a telephone 

 but he can connect the portable 'phone to any line any- 

 where. 



3IGELOW: \7hen a patrolnjan is going to leave 

 his district we must plan for another patrolman cover- 

 in? that portion of the district. Our great mistake 

 this year was that when one man was away his district 

 was not covered and fires 50 1 away. 



ME. WOOD3URY here gave a short talk on timber 

 sales. He said: "I think we have made considerable 

 progress during the past year in getting our rrork down to 

 a better business basis. In the past there has beon a 

 good deal of complaint on the part of the purchasers, 

 and Just complaint, for the rer.son that there have been 

 too many men in charge of the sale. Now we have our 

 procedure pretty well outlined. The supervisor desig- 

 nates a men in charge and thet oca is in absolute charge, 

 end whatever he does the Service vdll stand for. Of 

 Course, it is up to him what he does end he is 

 responsible. I think this is one of the most progressive 

 steps in timber solos during the year. 



Up to this time the sales T-orl: in the district 

 has not been very large, the district taken as a whole. 

 7/e have now pending several large propositions, one of 

 them involving about 80,000,000 board feet. The 

 condition thet we have to meet is that the larger part 

 of the heavily timbered area of the state is situated 

 anywhere from twelve to 20 miles from the railroad, 



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