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destroyed open oak, mostly dead and down. Very 

 little damage done. It was extinguished by eight per- 

 sons by starting cross-fires and using old sacks wet. 

 Weather was dry and windy; had been so about two 

 weeks. 



Leonard Groth, chairman, town of Stanchfield, April 23: 

 On the 1 8th of April, about 11 a. m., a fire burned 

 over 800 acres of brush and light timber and destroyed 

 a little fencing; damage amounted to very little. Fire 

 was set by a party burning weeds and other combus- 

 tible material. A strong wind blowing at the time 

 brought the fire into a tamarack swamp overgrown with 

 long grass and it quickly spread to the brush and 

 timber. Weather was very dry and windy, as there 

 has been no rain of note this spring. The fire was 

 extinguished with the help of forty persons by plowing, 

 using wet sacks and back-firing. It had to be watched 

 for three days. The party who caused fire was arrested, 

 plead guilty and paid a fine of #50. 



ITASCA COUNTY. 



R. M. Bering, Fire Warden, town of Rippel, on the 

 Big Fork, near Grand Falls, October 19: 

 There have been no fires in this section of the 

 country this season; none anywhere along the northern 

 part of the state. The swamps are wet and there is 

 no danger of fires doing any damage this fall. 



KANABEC COUNTY. 



Henry T. Olson, chairman, town of South Fork, 

 April 15: 



March 27th a fire burned over 2,400 acres of partly 

 meadow, partly brush and partly heavy timber; mostly 

 hard maple. Bid damage to the amount of $500. As 

 near as I can find out, it was caused by a settler 

 clearing land. It was extinguished by the work of ten 



