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The extent of the burned land will exceed five acres, and the loss was 

 small. It was caused by camp-fires made by fisherman. 



Lewis County. 



M. A. Samson, firewarden for the town of Diana, Lewis 

 county, reports : 



On September 3d a fire started at Ungabund Pond, and on the same 

 day another one at Indian River Pond, supposed to have been caused 

 by fishermen, but nothing is positively known as to the cause. These 

 two fires were about one mile apart, and when they ran together it 

 made a front of burning woods three miles in length, and a strip of 

 territory one and one-half miles wide. The timber destroyed was prin- 

 cipally hard wood. The damages will probably amount to $1,000. 

 The land belonged to private owners. The means used to extinguish 

 this fire were digging a small ditch, and keeping the ditch wet, and 

 where water could not be procured we threw fresh dirt from two to 

 three inches in depth. To fight a fire properly, commence in the 

 morning, say at 4 o'clock, arid ditch in front of the fire. Keep the 

 ditch wet, and the flames will stop as soon as they reach it. All stubs 

 on the side of the fire that will catch and throw sparks, should be cut. 

 There were some other fires in this town, but no damage of any 

 account was done by them. 



St. Lawrence County. 

 Allen Olmstead, State Forester in St. Lawrence county, reports : 



Forester Sanford and I returned from Silver Lake yesterday, where 

 we found everything all right. I should judge about one acre had 

 been burned over on land which was covered with small brush and 

 briers. We found smoke in three or four places under the roots of 

 some old pine stumps ; but it was where it could not possibly do any 

 harm. It rained very hard. I left Sanford at the forks of the road, 

 and walked to Childwold Park, as I wanted to see if there were any 

 fires in that section. I saw only one small place that had been burned. 

 One man told me that there had been a small fire at Lake Pleasant, 

 but that it had been put out. 



William Humes, State Forester, reports : 



On Monday, May 14th, a fire broke out three and one-half miles 

 east of Benson Mines, St. Lawrence county, on lands owned by the 

 Remington Paper Company, of Watertown, N. Y. The fire was 



