MAINE FORESTRY DISTRICT 29 
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as it has not been satisfactory running on batteries, as the batteries 
have been of poor quality and have given a lot of trouble. The 
car will not need any expensive repairs made on it, but should have 
a storage battery to be used for lighting and ignition. 
I have built a camp 16x20 on Township 16, Range 4, on Mada- 
waska Lake for a patrolman’s camp and have partly equipped it, 
and it has been a great improvement over a tent, as the place can 
now be locked up. Have changed the switch from the Yerxa camp 
to the tower, where the lookout watchman has it in his own hands 
about the line being split, and it has been a success in every way, as 
the watchman has had a clear line at all times. It also cut the 
line so that the load was taken off the Aroostook Telephone Com- 
pany’s line, and in wet weather this has helped a lot. While the 
change in the switch brought a complaint from one of the 
sporting camp owners I cannot see where it has not been a great 
improvement and should have been done before. Have started to 
change the line from Stockholm to Guerette and put it along the 
road. Have made a good start on it and it will be a big improve- 
ment when it is done, as it will take it out of the woods, so there 
will be a lot of time saved in locating trouble with the line. 
Charles L. Weeks, Chief Warden, Aroostook and Big Machias 
Rivers, District No. 6. . 
I herewith submit my report as Chief: Forest Fire Warden of 
District No. 6, St. John waters, for the fire season of 1919. 
The first work of the season was hanging telephone wire from 
Round Mountain to McKeen Crossing on the Machias River, a dis- 
tance of four miles, thus saving patrolling and repairing sixteen 
miles of wire to the same point as has been done in the past. The 
result has been most satisfactory as the telephone service has been 
excellent all through the season. We also hung three and one-half 
miles of telephone line from Round Mountain lookout to the Amer- 
ican Realty Company road where we connected with their line, 
thus giving the Watchman at Round Mountain direct communica- 
tion with all the Realty Company’s camps from Ashland to the 
Allagash. We hung four and one-quarter miles telephone line from 
Sterling Ridge in Masardis to the foot of Squapan Lake to patrol- 
man’s camp. On the Munsungan line we took down and cut out 
all bad connections and soldered all the connections from Oxbow 
Flat to Norway Bluff lookout. All that the telephone lines needed 
