PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS. 107 



TELEPHONE LINES. 



(Arrangements will be made as rapidly as possible to 

 construct telephone lines to connect the supervisor's 

 headquarters with rangers' headquarters and lookout 

 stations, so that fires may be reported and other busi- 



Iness of the reserve managed expeditiously. 

 In many cases this work may be carried on in coop- 

 eration with towns, associations of settlers, or telephone 

 companies, and the cost to the Service thus be consid- 

 erably reduced. It should be borne in mind that the 

 greater the amount of cooperation of this kind the 

 more rapidly can the system be extended. 



The supervisor will include in his annual estimate recommenda- 

 tions for telephone lines within his reserve, covering the following- 

 points, as well as any additional information which will aid the 

 Forester in considering the recommendations: 



(1) The length of the lines it is recommended to build during 

 the year covered by the estimate and the suggested extension of 

 these lines during the year following. 



(2) The distance between towns, settlers' houses, rangers' head- 

 quarters, and lookout points to be touched by the recommended 

 line and the number and location of instruments to be installed. 



NOTE. In estimating the number of permanent instruments to 

 be installed along the line for official use it should be borne in 

 mind that rangers may be provided with portable instruments 

 which may be attached to the line at any point and telephone con- 

 nection established. It is, however, very desirable that instru- 

 ments be installed at various points within easy reach of lookout 

 points, so that fires may be reported by persons not provided with 

 portable instruments. 



(3) When possible a map of the proposed route showing the 

 towns, settlers' houses, rangers' headquarters, lookout points, 

 rivers, creeks, canyons, etc., mountains, ridges, roads and trails, 

 and railroads, with their relative elevations, should be prepared 

 and submitted with the estimate. 



