FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 105 



Croghan ----- $2,146 06 



Denmark ---------- 485 00 



Diana - 3,000 00 



Greig - - 764 00 



Highmarket - --- 4 00 



Lowville -- --. 94 40 



Lyonsdale _------„.-- 1,220 00 



Martinsburgh --------- 29 00 



Montague --.- 36 00 



New Bremen - - - - - - -- - - 328 00 



Osceola - - 27 25 



Turin ----------- 1,700 00 



Watson . . . 510 86 



110,344 57 



Under the provisions of the Forestry Law one-half of this must be repaid to the 

 towns by the State. 



A remarkable fact in connection with the fires last summer is that while the 

 number of fires in the Adirondack counties was phenomenally large, none occurred 

 in the Catskill counties during the dry season except three small ones, which were 

 extinguished before any damage was incurred. 



The loss in timber in the Adirondack fires — $60,121 — will seem small as com- 

 pared with the acreage, 51,565 acres. But it must be remembered that a very large 

 proportion of the burned districts consisted of waste lands, old clearings, windfalls 

 and tracts that had been burned over before or were covered with a worthless 

 second-growth of small, scrubby trees. Nearly all these fires in the open country 

 stopped when they reached a piece of green timber. 



The methods employed in fighting these fires varied with the conditions. The 

 ground or surface fires were generally checked by whipping out the small flames 

 with brush, throwing dirt on the burning leaves and other material, plowing furrows, 

 digging trenches, and carrying water when it could be found near by. Hoes, 

 shovels, grub hoes, brush brooms and water pails were the principal tools in use. 

 When there was a top fire, or when the flames were traveling rapidly through a tall 

 undergrowth, back-firing was resorted to, and in each case so far as reported, with 

 success. 



Some of the many telegrams received and sent in relation to the forest fires last 

 summer are inserted here to give some idea of the widespread territory in which 



