MAINE FORESTRY DISTRICT 27 
lowered about three miles of line, began using sleeves at splices and 
tried several new methods of fastening insulators. 
The main improvement in the district this year was the erec- 
tion of a thirty-six foot steel tower, on the north peak of Number 
Nine Mountain. This tower adds very much to the usefulness of 
our lookout. The patrolmen and watchmen cleaned up the trails 
around the lookout in better shape than I have ever succeeded in 
having them. We had good connections with the Maine Last Block 
Company’s camp on Twp. 8 R. 3, where the Company kept a watch- 
man nearly all summer. I had my man do quite a lot of work on 
ABANDONED FARM SCENES—6. 
In the background is merchantable pine growth_jp old field abandoned fifty- 
two years. . Photo by Maine Forestry Dept. 
this line, as we might need it very much some time, and it con- 
nected on to our wire about half way out. 
For next year I would like very much to see a better camp built 
for the watchman, as the present one is 9 by 12, with a three-and- 
one-half-foot wall, and has a roof of cedar splits covered with 
roofing paper. This is too small, as the patrolman makes this his 
headquarters. 
