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of these towns, and the argument that no timber had been destroyed or 

 endangered. 



Of the 82 fires which occurred in the forests the causes were as follows: 



Railroad locomotives 17 River drivers 1 



Clearing land 6 Wood choppers 1 



Fishermen 4 Burning building 1 



Campers 4 Unknown 44 



Berry pickers 3 



Tobacco smokers 1 82 



And of the 116 fires on brush lands or pasture fields the causes were: 



Railroad locomotives 31 



Clearing land 15 



Fishermen 6 



Incendiary 5 



Tobacco smokers 4 



Berry pickers 3 



Campers 3 



Hunters 2 



Burning buildings 2 



Thawing dynamite 1 



Boiling sap ■ 1 



River drivers 1 



Picnic party 1 



Lightning 1 



Accident 1 



Unknown 39 



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The counties in which the timber fires occurred, and the number of 



fires in each, were: 



Clinton 6 



Essex 9 



Fulton 3 



Franklin 8 



Hamilton 3 



Lewis 4 



Oneida 2 



St. Lawrence 12 



Warren 22 



Greene 1 



Delaware 3 



Sullivan 7 



Ulster 2 



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