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operating in this State have included in their time tables refer- 

 ences to this important matter, and some of them have generously 

 given an entire page. Margins of the Automobile Blue Book 

 have been printed with forest fire warnings. In a similar man- 

 ner, the telephone companies have in several instances co-operated, 

 while the Mountain Home Telephone Company printed on the 

 front cover of their telephone directory instructions as to report- 

 ing forest fires. They also furnished the material and built five 

 miles of line for use on the fire line in the Essex county fire. 

 The rangers have been detailed to the places in their territories 

 where they could accomplish the greatest good. During the 

 spring season, while fishermen are common, they are patroling 

 the streams ; during the summertime they are around the places 

 frequented by the tourists and, in the evening, meeting them at 

 the hotels ; while during the fall season their activities are 

 largely directed to the sections where hunters are most common, 

 in all instances informing them of the ease with which forests 

 fires are started, the rapidity with which they spread and the 

 consequent damage which they do. The appeal for greater en re 

 is made in a personal way, as far as possible, by presenting the 

 aspect of the benefits to the forest in which the particular indi- 

 viduals are most interested. 



