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they offer cannot be dispensed with until substitutes arc built. The desire to 

 restrict expenditures as much as possible to absolute necessities and to essentials 

 rather than conveniences has delayed the building of these substitutes. 



The necessity of keeping up this establishment has been pointed out before, 

 and a certain amount of the revenue will have to be devoted to its improvement and 

 maintenance. 



A two-story and attic students' dormitory, 36 x 60 feet, is to be built this spring, 

 the stone for foundations having been blasted and hauled, and the lumber purchased. 



In addition, there are on the Axton District, besides the squatters' establishment 

 previously mentioned, which will presently come into possession of the College, a 

 number of old logging camps. One of these has been put in good repair, and has 

 served the surveying parties during the summer and will presently become the habi- 

 tation of one of the needed guards, being located about three miles from Axton, 

 towards the eastern boundary, which, owing to the unusually large amount of debris, 

 resulting from the logging operations of the Santa Clara Lumber Co., is in special 

 danger of fire. Another such camp, at the southern boundary, will also be put in 

 repair for similar purposes. 



In the Wawbeek District it has become necessary to build anew, in order to 

 accommodate the crew of men who are now at work clearing and cutting cordwood. 

 This camp, consisting of men's house, 36x40 feet accommodating 40 men, and a 

 barn, 50 x 30 with smithy substantially built of lumber, with a view to permanency, 

 will serve as the center of operations for the district, being located near the nursery, 

 on the Wawbeek Highway, centrally to the district, although this will not exclude 

 the necessity of locating temporary camps in different parts of the district, as the 

 needs of logging operations require. 



Administration and Maintenance. 



The first step in the administration of a property is to become acquainted with its 

 every detail, hence the forest survey above described was begun as soon as the survey- 

 ing parties could be organized and equipped, which was not until the end of May, when 

 the boundary survey was begun, to be followed by the topographical survey (parties 

 being organized at the end of June) and the timber estimators, the number of men 

 employed at various times varying from 10 to 35. 



For these parties not only camp outfits had to be secured, but provisions fur- 

 nished, as only occasionally could quarters be found in the proximity of the work. 

 The surveying parties varied in numbers, the main parties breaking up in September, 



