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I am unable to state, as the wood was very small, and a great portion of first growth 

 had been cut off heretofore. I employed two men, and we worked nearly all night. 



I visited the place of the fire the next day, and saw that no further damage could 

 be done. The fire was probably accidental. As a rough estimate, I should say the 

 damage was two or three dollars per acre. 



Cassius N. Winch, Firewarden for the town of Wilmington, reports . 



On the 15th of September I was notified by Alpheus Perry that he had a fallow 

 to burn and wanted me to be present. I went on the 16th, but the wind blew so 

 hard that I forbid him setting any fire on that day. On the 17th I went there again, 

 and he started his fire. We burned over about ten acres of fallow ground. 



I went there again on the 25th of the same month and we burned over about ten 

 acres more. No damage was done to anyone. The fire was set for the purpose of 

 clearing land in the town of Wilmington near timbered land belonging to other 

 parties. 



On June 25th I worked one day in putting up fire notices. Please send me some 

 more notices. 



Franklin County. 



Martin Moody, Firewarden for the town of Altamont, reports : 



On July 6th I discovered a fire on Mount Morris, in Township 25. It was supposed 

 to have been started by a man that was lost in the woods in going to a lumber camp. 

 It was very dry, but after hard work I succeeded in confining it to the district that 

 had been lumbered. Very little damage was done outside of the middle third of the 

 township. It burned over about one thousand acres around the top of the mountain. 

 The damage was largely where- the fire ran out of the lumbered land. I should 

 estimate the damage at $500. 



At this same time a fire started on the west side of Big Tupper Lake, at Grind- 

 stone Bay, in St. Lawrence county. It burned along the shore of the lake, 

 destroying about thirty cords of hemlock bark and some spruce timber. It burned 

 over about twenty acres. I estimate the damage at $200, not counting the injury to 

 the scenery on the shore. I got it stopped at each end of the fire. This fire was 

 started by campers. 



Still another fire was burning at this same time on Green Island, at the lower end 

 of Big Tupper Lake. This island contains about seven acres, and before the fire 

 could be stopped it ran over about three-fourths of the ground. It killed most of the 

 timber on four acres. The damage was $50. It started from a camp fire left by a 

 party of tourists. 



