CONTENTS 



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Part I. Protection from Railway Fires 1 



Extracts from Railway Act 1 



Application by British Columbia Government 4 



Order 16570 by Railway Commission 7 



Improvements over previous Orders 12 



Jurisdiction 13 



Organization of patrol work 13 



Instructions to Canadian Pacific Railway 17 



Instructions to Railway Employees 24 



Draft of working instructions to employees .... 24 



Clearing rights of way 25 



Situation in the East 26 



Inspection 26 



Memorandum of Instructions by Chief Fire In- 

 spector 28 



Results of fire patrols, 1912 32 



Fire Guards 34 



Inspection op fire guards 35 



Fire guard study 36 



Construction in Prairie Provinces 36 



Part II. Forest Fires and the Brush Disposal Problem 40 



Lumbering slash 40 



Settlers' slash 40 



Methods of organization 41 



Situation in Canada 41 



Brush disposal necessary 42 



no hardship upon operators 42 



Disposal in conifers and hardwoods 43 



Methods op disposal 44 



(1) Burning 44 



(2) Lopping 45 



(3) Lopping and piling 46 



(4) Lopping and scattering 47 



Brush disposal on National Forests in Idaho, Montana 



AND Minnesota 47 



Brush disposal on National Forests in Oregon and 



Washington 49 



The situation on private lands 53 



Brush disposal legislation in Minnesota 54 



