light your fire on the up-hill end, and if the windrows 

 be very long, Bhould the wind change and come down hill, the 

 heat -oul-I be so great it woulcT do great damage to the young 

 growth; if the windrows are short and low down of course the 

 fire would not be so large and the heat would not be so intense. 

 Do not in any caoe allow the bruoh to lay longer than one 

 winter and one summer. Should the brush lie two winters the 

 bark becomes loose, the sapwood begins to decay and becomes 

 spongy, so the first shower of rain or damp and fogf^' weather 

 seems to eoak it and it becomes so wet it is hard to obtain 

 good resulto % .:hen the burning time arrives. In piling limbs, 

 I novld suggest, pile them straight with each other and then 

 when burning they will settle down and burn clean. If cross- 

 piled they are not liable to burn clean. 



S. A. Shields. 



Hewa from the Ranger Districts 

 District No. 1 



I have noticed in a number of places where petty 

 burning is being carried on by a number of persons, setting 

 snail fires along roads and trails, in every instance the 

 turned area not exceeding six square feet, with the exceptions 

 of two places. One was in the Salmon range of mountains on 

 Grizzly Croek whore a party of geological surveyors had camped, 

 a cabin being* burned and a number of trees scorched by the 

 intense heat, and another on Chaparral Mountain where one acre 

 was burned over. 



During the month 01' August and September seven miles 

 of telephone line was completed and two boxes installed. This 

 line is an extension of the Trinity River Telephone system, 

 from Northfork to the Yellowstone Mine. 



August 27 the wire was delivered on Blue Ridge 

 for a forty-acre pasture, and Guard Adams brushed out the 

 right of way for the fence. Through some mis -understand ing 

 however, the staples were not shipped and work was discontinued 

 for the present, 



August 29 the wire was delivered on Hayfork Bally for 

 a forty-acre pasture. The first few days of September were 

 devoted to the survey of the East Pork and Backbone Trail which 

 is to be cooperative work between Trinity County and the Forest 

 Service. 



Y/ork on all Improvements was closed down 

 indefinitely until r.ore funds are available, or until the 

 projects may be conpleted with guard labor. 



Four days were devoted to the survey of the Trinity 

 River Trail at Schnider's Bar, Since September 25 all the 

 guards in this district have devoted their entire time to 

 the improvement of trails. 



Two days of this month were spent in the examination 

 of two June 11 claims. 



E. r;. Brannan. 



