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On May 14th I saw smoke on the land near Smith & Leonard's side- 

 track, which runs from their sawmill to the A. & S. L. R. R. Taking 

 what help I had, and calling out a lot of Mr. Roake's men, we cui the 

 fire off and extinguished it. It was burning on Lot 309, Township 10, 

 Old Military Tract, and was started by a locomotive which was stand- 

 ing on the side track. It was extinguished before any damage was 

 done. 



On May 15th 1 saw a big smoke which I thought was near the 

 Kushaqua hotel. I took what men I had and went there. I found the 

 fire was at the west end of Round Pond, and near the hotel. I called 

 the men out that were at work on the hotel, and cut the fire off. On 

 the 17th it broke out again, and I called out help and put it out the 

 second time. This fire caught from a locomotive on the A. & S. L fc 

 R. R., the fire occurring on their land. 



On June 15th I was at Loon lake, and Mr. Chase asked me if there 

 was any fire on the Oregon plains, rear Smith & Leonard's mill. I 

 told him that there was a little, and he wanted me to go back and put 

 it out. I went back, and when within about two miles of the mill I 

 saw a man coming toward me. He was walking very fast, and I could 

 smell smoke. I traveled as fast as I could, and about 50 rods further 

 I could see a fire ahead of me. On driving up to it I found that it 

 was set on the south side of the road, and had been burning more than 

 10 or 15 minutes. It was burning about eight feet from the wheel 

 track. I drove on a little ways, and met two men and two boys. I 

 asked them to stop and do what they could to hold the fire until I could 

 drive to the mill and get help. They had some dinner pails in which 

 they carried dirt and threw it on the fire, and thus kept it down until 

 I got men from the mill with shovels who put it out. This fire was on 

 Lot 215, Township 10. It did no hurt, but if I had not come along as 

 I did it would have been a big fire. 



On the 23d of August Forester Tormey came to my house and in- 

 formed me there was a fire near the mouth of the Little North Branch. 

 He said he would go over there immediately, and told me to come as 

 soon as I could. My team had gone for a load of hay, but it returned 

 in a few minutes and I then took my two men with shovels and pails 

 and drove to the Littlejohn shanties, where I was to find Mr. Tormey. 

 When I arrived Mr. Tormey was not there. We could not see any fire 

 but it was very smoky. Looking up the North Branch we could see 

 a black smoke rolling up above the tops of the trees. We then con- 

 cluded that Forester Tormey had gone on to Louis Noble's shanty, where 

 we found him. The men there said there was no fire. I said there 



