194 ELEMENTARY FORESTRY. 
Any person who shall kindle a fire on or dangerously near to 
forest or prairie land, and leave it unquenched, or who shall be a 
party thereto. 
Any person who shall use other than incombustible fire wads 
for firearms, or carry a naked torch, firebrand, or other exposed 
light, in or dangerously near to forest land. 
Any person who shall willfully or heedlessly deface, destroy 
or remove any warning placard posted under the requirements of 
this act. 
Any railroad company willfully neglecting to provide effi- 
cient spark arresters on its engines, or to keep its right of way 
to the width of 100 feet cleared of combustible material, or which 
shall fail to comply with other provisions of section 12 of the 
above mentioned act. 
The following are liable to a penalty of not less than $5.00 
nor more than $50.00: 
Any railroad employe who willfully violates the provisions 
of section 12 of this act, in regard to depositing live coals or hot 
ashes near woodland, and to reporting fires. 
Any owner of threshing or other portable steam engine who 
neglects to have efficient spark arresters, or who shall deposit 
live coals or hot ashes without extinguishing the same. 
The following are liable to a penalty not exceeding $500, or 
imprisonment in the state prison not over ten years, or both: 
Any person who maliciously sets or causes to be set on fire 
any woods, prairie or other combustible material whereby the 
property of another is destroyed and life sacrificed. 
The effect of this law has been very beneficial, and has pre- 
vented much loss of property by fire; but the area to be covered 
is very large, much of it is very sparsely populated, and the funds 
available are very meager for best results, so that, although it 
has been very ably enforced, and some convictions made under 
it, yet it should be amended in several respects to make it effec- 
tive. 
State Bounty for Tree Planting. It is provided by the 
laws of the State of Minnesota that any person who shall plant, 
cultivate and keep in a growing, thrifty condition one acre and 
