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REPORT OF THE 



;^xtracts from Remarl^s Appended to tl)e Reports of tl)e 



Firewardens. 



Mr. Charles Bartlett, firewarden for the town of Upper Jay, Essex county, N. Y., 

 reports : 



April 23d, 1900. This fire was set by Mr. David Shipman to burn some waste brush 

 in his pasture. The wind came up and the fire spread through the grass until it reached 

 some second growth pine, where it made a big smoke, but did little damage. I saw the 

 smoke and drove there immediately. Found Shipman with two men at work, and they 



had got it pretty well under contol when I 

 reached there. It burned over about two 

 acres, doing little or no damage. 



Mr. Henry Morgan, firewarden for the 

 town of Wilmington, Essex county, N. Y., 

 reports : 



May 2d, 1900. Number of acres burned 

 over, twenty ; Lot 82, Jay Tract. The fire was 

 started by a careless man, who lighted his pipe 

 and threw a burning match onto the ground. 

 Extinguished by ploughing a trench and throw- 

 ing damp earth on the fire. We have been 

 very fortunate in stopping fires this year. The 

 ground was not so dry as it gets sometimes. 

 Last year the ground was so dry that we 

 could not put the fire out with dirt ; but this 

 year the ground has been so moist that we 

 could shovel the dirt with good effect. 



The great danger in this tovVn comes from 

 the pulpwood jobs. It is hard to stop a fire 

 in one of these jobs because the ground is 

 piled full of dry brush and dead tree tops. 

 All we can do is to back-fire and keep it out 

 of the live timber. There are a great many 

 men in these camps and they all smoke and 

 use matches carelessly, which is a great source 

 of danger ; but I will watch and do the best I 

 can. 





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