the road and thus more accessible. But at each of these places 

 they burnt themselves out, and had to move to adjacent lakes to 

 find camping ground. Their favorite camping place was on an 

 island in Hahn lake. A week before the Chisholm fire started the 

 island was burnt over. Then, the next, they went up to a small 

 lake in sees. 32 and 33, township 59, range 21, and started the 

 fire that destroyed Chisholm. This smouldered around the lake 

 nearly a week, burning very slowly, as vegetation was comparatively 

 green around the lake; but the high wind of the 4th and 5th, reach- 

 ing a velocity of between 30 and 40 miles an hour, drove the flames 

 straight for Chisholm. After crossing the Sturgeon Lake County 

 road, it reached the doomed town, a distance of ten or eleven 

 miles, in an hour and a half, and in less than an hour thereafter 

 the village was in ashes." 



Mr. Dillon Tierney, of Farmington, graduate of the 

 forestry school, and who had rendered field service a 

 year or more for the Cloquet Lumber Company, was 

 employed by this office to go to International Falls via 

 Bemidji and return through the Ash Lake country. He 

 reported that the important pine forests there had not 

 been injured by fire. 



Deficiency Appropriation. 



The standing appropriation of $5,000 a year provided 

 by Section 1784, Revised Laws of Minnesota, 1905, to 

 cover the expense of preventing and suppresing forest or 

 prairie fires "in any season of unusual drought," was ex- 

 hausted in October, and there are unpaid claims for fight- 

 ing forest fires amounting to $12,500, due for the most part 

 to poor people, who in many instances worked day and 

 night and who deserve their pay at the earliest possible 

 moment. These accounts are on file in my [office and I 

 respectfully recommend that a deficiency appropriation be 

 made by the legislature for their payment at an early day. 

 Duties of Fire Wardens. 



The law making supervisors of towns, mayors of 

 cities, and presidents of village councils, fire wardens, 



