CHIEF FIRE WARDEN. 5 



SUMMARY OF FOREST AND BRUSH FIRES, igo2— Continued. 



Total acres burned over, 18,285. Damage, #3,820, 

 Classification of causes: 



Clearing land, 8. 



Railroad locomotives, 3. 



Burning meadows, 2. 



Other causes, 5. 



Unknown, 16. 



Report of Fire Wardens and Others of Forest 

 Fires for 1902. 



anoka county. 

 p. W. Jasperson, chairman, town of Bethel, April 12: 

 On the 4th instant, about 12 o'clock, a fire started 

 on land occupied by Joseph Cogger; burned over 600 

 acres of brush and meadow, and destroyed 20 tons of 

 hay. The fire was stopped by a back-fire. Weather 

 dry and windy; had been for about a week. 



BECKER COUNTY. 



Peter O. Dahl, chairman, town of Grand Park, Octo- 

 ber 30: 

 On the 19th instant fire burned over 200 acres of 

 light timber on section 3. It originated in a meadow 



