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Fires in the brush belt adjacent to the timber were fought from 

 the point of view of saving the timber. In many cases they were suf- 

 fered to cover considerable area rather than incur a heavy fighting 

 expense. On August 1st a fire started in the brush belt near the 

 Sierra Forest boundary. Its course was carefully watched, but not 

 until the afternoon of August 2nd, when it started up the south side 

 of San Joaquin Canon, did the Supervisor decide that it threatened 

 Government timber. It was then fought from the most advan- 

 tageous points with three small crews of twelve to fifteen men, and 

 put under final control the night of August 3rd, after covering 

 9,560 acres. The fight cost the Service $953. 



Forest Badges United States District Forester Coert DuBois has 

 FOR Boy Scouts just received from the maker a supply of badges 

 which are to be given to the Boy Scouts who 

 qualify next summer as National Forest Aides. To become eligible 

 to receive a badge, the Scout is required to spend at least ten days 

 on a national forest performing useful service during the fire season 

 under the direction of Federal forest officers. At the end of this 

 period he has to pass an examination in elementary forestry. 



The first Scout to receive the badge was a Mill Valley boy who 

 worked on the Tahoe Forest last summer under Forest Supervisor 

 R. L. P. Bigelow. He performed with credit the duties assigned 

 to him, being specially complimented by Bigelow for his conduct 

 at the Crystal Peak fire, and passed the examination with a fair 

 rating. 



The badge is of bronze, with the Forest Service pine tree in relief 

 encircled by the words "National Forest Aide." The District For- 

 ester expects that a number of them will be earned by the Boy 

 Scouts next season. 



San Francisco, Oct. 17, 1914 



Mr. T. H. d'Estrella, 



Institute for Deaf and Blind, 

 Berkeley, Cal. 



Dear Mr. d'Estrella: On behalf of the Sierra Club, I wish to 

 thank you most sincerely for your generous gift of arrow-heads found 

 in Tuolumne Meadows. We appreciate this gift very deeply and will 

 place these on exhibition in the Club Room in the near future. We 

 trust this will form the nucleus of what will eventually be a large 

 collection of such reHcs from this general region. 

 With very best of good wishes, I remain. 



Very sincerely yours, 



Wm. E. Colby 



