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shall have been presented shall be deemed to have been 

 rejected, and the claimant may then appeal to the dis- 

 trict court or to the Chief Fire Warden, and the decision 

 of either shall be final. 



Helpers to be paid for not exceeding ten days' service 

 in any one year. 



The limitations "five" days posting notices and "ten" 

 days preventing and extinguishing fires are stricken out; 

 and fire wardens may be paid for fifteen days' service if 

 rendered. The bill, as introduced, did not change the 

 Chief Fire Warden's salary, but the committees recom- 

 mended an increase from $1,200 to $1,600, which was 

 agreed to by the House. It was, however, stricken out 

 by the Senate. 



APPROPRIATION. 



For each of the first two years that the fire warden 

 law was in operation, the legislature, under the head 

 "For Forest Preservation, " appropriated $6,000, which 

 was to cover the one-third of expense the state paid to 

 counties, and the salary, printing and other expenses of 

 the Chief Fire Warden. Since then the appropriation for 

 each year for those purposes has been only $5,000. The 

 legislature appropriated no more for each of the two 

 ensuing fiscal years, although the state will have to pay 

 an additional third of county expenses. It will be nec- 

 essary, therefore, to keep expenses as low as possible. 



Forest Southeast of Red Lake. 

 Three hundred miles northwest of the Twin Cities and 

 in a region covering twenty townships east and southeast 

 of Red Lake is one of the largest and richest forests of 

 original white pine remaining in Minnesota. Starting in 

 the latter part of September last from the village of Black 

 Duck and going east to within about ten miles of the Big 

 Fork river, thence north, I made a circuit of sixty miles 

 through this forest, passing through eight townships and 

 the settlements of Island Lake, Phena, Mizpah and 



