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will investigate the case before a justice of the peace, * and then if 

 proper proof can be obtained I will arrest him for the offense. I 

 received a package of fire notices, for which I am much obliged. 



Daniel Sheehan, firewarden for the town of Johnsburgh, 

 Warren county, reports : 



A fire started June 4th on the East Gore, on Lots 24 and 25, owned by 

 Patrick Moynehan. I warned out 1 men and outed it. The damage 

 was about $50. It burned over 100 acres. 



Washington County. 

 A. C. Yaughn, firewarden for the town of Fort Ann, Wash- 

 ington county, reports: 



On the 28th of August I was notified that a forest fire had started 

 at Crossetts Pond in this town. I went there immediately and found 

 quite a fire upon the two islands in the pond, containing some 24 acres 

 of land. From one of the islands there was a neck of land extending 

 on to the main shore. We cleared off this neck to confine the fire and 

 keep it from reaching the shore, as it is all timber lands for miles 

 around this vicinity. The fire consumed all of the timber upon the 

 two islands, some 24 acres in extent. Expenses for assistance amounted 

 to $15. 



Thomas M. Cooper, firewarden for the town of Dresden, 

 Washington county, reports : 



April l*7th there was a fire on lands owned by Chris. Williams, which 

 burned over 12 acres and destroyed three acres of wood. The damage 

 to small timber will amount to $50. Cause of fire unknown. 



On April 19 another fire burned over 125 acres of young timber, 

 damaging timber to the amount of $200. This fire caught from a 

 garden fallow set by a man who was living in the woods alone in a 

 shanty. 



On September 6th there was a forest fire on lands owned by Willis 

 Foster, near Rocky Pond, which burned about 25 acres of young tim- 

 ber near a summer camp site. I estimate the damage at $500. 



Before the Forest Commission was created the damage each year to 

 forest lands would have been ten times the amount of damage this 

 year. 



