336 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF 



Mr. Fred N. Kirch, town of Morehouse, Hamilton county, N. Y. : 



September 12, 1899. About half an acre burned over on the shore of Fourth lake, 

 Fulton Chain; land owned by E. J. Reddington. It killed about $30 worth of timber. It 

 started from the camp fire of H. D. Kendall, which burned his tent, as well as the sur- 

 rounding timber. I called out forty men, but part of them, who were guests at the neigh- 

 boring hotels, declined to receive any pay. 



I am not the firewarden of this town, but was appointed a district firewarden tempo- 

 rarily by Colonel Fox, the Superintendent of Forests, when he came up here to attend to 

 the fire on Black mountain. 



Mr. T. D. Brown, town of Wells, Hamilton county, N. Y. : 



September 6, 1899. About eighty acres were burned over, destroying timber to the 

 extent of $320. I ordered out twelve men, who worked ten days each — one hundred and 

 wenty days in all — not including eighteen days during which I was in attendance myself. 

 The rain has deadened the fire so much that I think it is safe now to leave it with one man 

 on watch along the trenches to see that the fire does not cross or burrow underneath them. 



Mr. Corey Garlock, town of Russia, Herkimer county, N. Y. : 



August 31, 1899. The fire in the muck extended over a half acre or so, on Lot 25, 

 Walker Tract. I put it out with the assistance of one man, It was started along the road 

 by some hunters who were cooking dinner, and went away without putting out their cof- 

 fee fire. 



Mr. William C. Perkins, town of Salisbury, Herkimer county, N. Y. : 

 August 18, 1899. Number of acres, 15; damage to timber, $5. Location, Lot 104, Royal 

 Grant. There being no water near by, we used brush to whip it out and a horse to plow 

 a furrow around the fire. This piece of land was cleared up some time ago, after which it 

 grew up with bushes and briers. It is an old pasture in which the fire caught some way; 

 but it had to be put out immediately or it would have run into the timber, where it would 

 have done lots of damage. 



August 29, 1899. About thirty acres burned over, destroying $50 worth of stand- 

 ing timber. I ordered out thirty-seven men and rhree horses. It is almost impossible to 

 put fire out now, as it is so dry. We have watched it day and night, but we are getting 

 a little rain to-day, and I think there will be no more trouble with this fire. I discharged 

 all the men this afternoon. 



Mr. John H. Bintz, town of New Bremen, Lewis county, N. Y. : 

 August 21, 1899. This fire, which was in the town of Webb, Herkimer county, burned 

 over only an acre and a half; but as it was in Watson's East Triangle, near the line of my 

 town, there was no one else to look after it. Taking twenty men in the forenoon, I went 

 over there and extinguished it. I worked the whole twenty during the forenoon, but in the 

 afternoon I retained only five. This land was cut over, and the logs and pulpwood were 

 skidded. All the timber left standing consisted of a few balsams, which are of no value. 

 The fire was on Lot 19, the property of the Carthage Lumber Company, and was only a 

 half mile west of the State forest. 



