26 FOREST PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION 
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The telephone lines have been repaired during the season. 
In general the lines have been in good working order. The 
wire and connections for a new telephone line connecting Priestly 
Mountain lookout station with Soper Mountain lookout station was 
shipped to Chamberlain Farm during the winter of 1918-1919. 
Owing to the scarcity of labor and extra cost of building, the work 
was put over to another year. 
The new line from Chesuncook to the Tramway camps at head 
of Chamberlain Lake, via Mud Pond, built in spring of 1919, by 
Ralph L. Brick has given good service. 
ABANDONED FARM SCENES—5. 
Young timber growing in field abandoned twenty-six years. 
- * Photo by Maine Forestry Dept. 
On the whole, I think the telephone Ines are giving a fair aver- 
age service for woods lines. This service can be, and no doubt 
will be, greatly improved from year to year as the Chief Wardens 
and patrolmen come to appreciate the great importance of the 
telephone. 
James M. Pierce, Houlton, Chief Warden, E Plantation, Hammond 
Plantation, C. & D. R. 2, Aroostook County. 
District No. 7 
On my return from Augusta, I set out to apply to our system 
the things that I had learned at the meeting about telephones. We 
