202 FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Report of Fire District Number Two 



Mr. Austin Cary, Superintendent of State Forests: 



Dear Sir. — I submit to you the following report of the Second 

 District of the New York Fire Patrol of which I am superintendent, 

 comprising the counties of Fulton, Hamilton, Washington, Warren and 

 Saratoga : 



This district embraces an area of 4,969 square miles, or 3,180,160 

 acres, and contains a population ,by the census of 1905, of 188,811. Within 

 the boundaries of this district are located 776,409.82 acres of State land. 

 This district- is not materially invaded by railroads, except on the eastern 

 borders in the more settled counties of Saratoga and Washington, and 

 consequently is more removed from the regular channels of travel, and a 

 section much sought by those wishing to penetrate deep forests and find 

 quiet and seclusion. 



The district has been looked after and patrolled by a superintendent, 

 twelve regular patrolmen, and, during the season of extreme fire danger, 

 by eleven special or emergency men, with the assistance, since established, 

 of watchmen on Snowy mountain, West mountain, Gore mountain and 

 Mount Hamilton, together with the supervisors of the various towns, who 

 by law are constituted fire wardens by virtue of their office. 



The whole number of fires occurring within the district during the 

 year has been eighty-five, from the following reported causes: 



Fishing .' 2 



Hunters 7 



Railroads 4 



Clearing land 8 



Berry pickers 9 



Incendiary 2 



Bee Hunters 1 



Smokers 6 



Carelessness 7 



