28 FOREST PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION 
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S. C. Cummings, Haynesville, Chief Warden, Southern part of 
Aroostook. | 
District No. 8 
I herewith submit my report as one of the Chief Wardens of 
Aroostook County for the year 1919 in my district, which is the 
southern part of Aroostook County. 
The season commenced quite dry, and later it changed to be 
very wet; I only had two small fires of any consequence. These 
were in May on Two, Range Three and in August on Two, Range 
Two at Wytopitlock Lake, and were extinguished quickly and at 
a small expense. 
In regard to patrolling and patrolmen, I would suggest having 
more lookout stations and less patrolmen, although of course there 
should be a certain amount of patrolling done. I would say, if it 
is proper, it is necessary to have some patrolmen, especially around 
the pulp operations and on the by-paths and highways where the 
men are travelling to and from the camps. 
I think we have in this State at the present time one of the best 
fire systems in New England, and as the years go by, this system 
becomes more efficient and the Chief Wardens and deputy wardens 
are onto their job, and more especially in regard to posting the fire 
notices. That is one of the best things in the fire service today. 
The travelling public begins to see that the forest fire commission 
of this State is organized to protect the forest and in protecting 
the forests we protect the resources of the State and every person 
in the State. 
In regard to the lookout stations, I have one in my district, 
completed this season, 1919, and the observation from the lookout 
covers a very large territory; its location is on Mitchell Mountain 
in the town of Haynesville, Aroostook County, Maine. 
Claude M. Austin, Stockholm, Chief Warden, Northeastern part of 
Aroostook, Disirict No. 1. 
I would recommend that a small camp be built at the Long Lake 
Thorofare on Township 17, Range 4, for a patrolman’s camp and 
also that a telephone line be built to it, as there is no telephone 
there that can be used in an emergency. We have three old tele- 
phone boxes that are 2500 Ohms and would like to replace them 
with new 1600 Ohm boxes and would like to put in a line of poles 
in the town of Winterville where it connects with the Aroostook 
Telephone Co. line, as it is not a very good place there, and it would 
pay to do it. Will need a new ignition system for the motor boat, 
