Report of the Forest Commission. 33 



Patrick Johnson, firewarden for the town of Shandaken, Ulster 

 county, reports : 



On May 15th I saw smoke arising over the mountain from Bushnells- 

 ville, near the line of Green county. It was running fast toward the 

 center of our town. I warned out four men, and taking them with me 

 started on a ridge ahead of the fire. We dug a trench up the moun- 

 tain, and back fired it. By night we had it under control. Next 

 morning I took one man with me, and before sundown it was out of 

 danger. It burned over about 150 acres, mostly brush and rocky land. 

 I might say that there was no damage done. This is the only fire that 

 happened in my district during the year. I have attended seven fallow 

 fires in the way of clearing land, and did not let one of them break 

 away into the woods. 



George W. Lewis, firewarden for the town of Olive, Ulster 

 county, reported : 



No fires have occurred in the mountains this season, owing to the 

 extra posting of notices of the Forest Commission, and to the warning 

 of tourists going up the mountain for the view to be extra cautious, as 

 there was no water to put out even the smallest fire. We had no water 

 for five weeks, except what was brought up in pails from a spring one 

 mile below us. 



Mark C. Riseley, firewarden of the town of Woodstock, Ulster 

 county, reports : 



On August 11th I was called on by Egbert Howland to stand guard 

 while he burned a fallow. He burned 19 acres without allowing the 

 fire to escape from his land. 



On August 25th a forest fire broke out south of Woodstock, which 

 burned over an area of about 500 acres, mostly second growth timber. 

 Damage about $500. We had to back fire in order to stop it. It 

 was started by an incendiary. 



On August 27th I was called on by Walter Traub to assist him in 

 burning a fallow. He burned four acres with good results; and on 

 August 28th I was called on by Michael Platsider, who burned over 

 two acres of his brush land with good results. 

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