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Richard Place in San Antonio Canyon, where he made his headquar- 

 ters. 



Ranger Bradley, who is game and fish warden as well as ranger, 

 is also a man past middle life; he has never been beyond the Fair- 

 child's trail. 



Ranger Casey of Lytle Creek is a young and active man, and, con- 

 sidering that he was working in a district that he did not know, did 

 very good work: starting out wich twelve men up the Cucamonga Can- 

 yon after the fire and coming down the almost impassable Fairchild's 

 trail at nine o'clock at night. 



The commissary of the patrol was in charge of Supervisor Borden, 

 and consisted of such scanty supplies that the men, when they could, 

 would go to Stoddard's Canyon and buy their meals themselves. One 

 man and a mule were supposed to transport provisions to the men, 

 which he did, one meal at a time, while the men were ten and fifteen 

 miles away. 



IIRE PATROL AT STODDARD'S CAMP TUESDAY AND TUESDAY 



NIGHT. 



The men had fought the fire Monday night, and were relieved to rest 

 Tuesday and Tuesday night; while the fire crossed from the west 

 mouth of Cucamonga Canyon to the east mouth, not five miles away 

 by wagon road, and could have been stopped by a few men by back- 

 firing. 



Age of Patrol. When Hon. Abbot Kinney asked Mr. B. P. Allen to 

 employ the students of the Forestry School he replied that they could 

 not use them as they were mostly boys. Now, the members of the 

 Forestry School were with one exception over eighteen; while the pa- 

 trol had two boys of fifteen and ore man of almost sixty. 



