Report of the Forest Commissioner of the State of Maine, Band 5The Commissioner, 1904 The [9th] report contains "Wood-using industries of Maine by J.C. Nellis." Title-page omits "Report." |
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50 acres acres area burned Aroostook back fires balsam fir Bemis berries blueberry barrens blueberry industry burned in 1903 camp cedar cent Cherryfield Clearing land conifers COUNTY FIRES crews east extinguished fighting fires fighting the fires fire started fire warden fires occurred Fishermen Forest Commissioner forest fires forestry Franklin FRANKLIN COUNTY fruit HANCOCK COUNTY hardwood hardwood land Hardwood Put hemlock inches in diameter Katahdin land burned locomotive lumbering Maine miles mill Mixed Put owners Oxford County paper birch patrol Pine Put Piscataquis PISCATAQUIS COUNTY Pl June places Plantation popple protection pulp Put out Put Rain Range 9 Rangeley lake red maple region ridges River road season seedlings selectmen species Spruce and hardwood spruce flat Stacyville stand stream striped maple tion Total damage Total loss town Township XXII tract Trenching valley vegetable soil vicinity virgin Wassataquoik Water white pine wind wood yellow birch
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Seite 10 - ... information, together with the probable amount of property destroyed, specifying the value of timber as near as may be, and amount of cord wood, logs, bark or other forest product, fencing, bridges and buildings that have been burned.
Seite 10 - ... punished by a fine of fifty dollars, provided that such fires built upon the sea beach in such situation that they cannot spread into forest wood or cultivated lands or meadows, shall not be construed as prohibited by this section. One half of any fine imposed and collected under this section shall be paid to the complainant. SEC. 56. Selectmen shall erect in a conspicuous place at the side of every highway, as they may deem proper, and...
Seite 10 - ... upon its valuation for purposes of taxation. If any person so ordered to assist, and not excused from said service by said forest fire warden on account of sickness, disability or some important business or engagement, shall neglect to comply with any such order he shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered in an action of debt in the name and to the use of the town, by the treasurer thereof.
Seite 10 - О о --. within a year, shall report to the forest commissioner the extent of area burned over, to the best of their information, together with the probable amount of property destroyed, specifying the value of timber as near as may be, and the amount of cord wood...
Seite 133 - Sautaash are these currants dried by the natives, and so preserved 'all the year; which they beat to powder, and mingle it with their parched meal, and make a delicate dish which they call sautauthig, which is as sweet to them as plum or spice cake to the English.
Seite 10 - Whoever by himself, or by his servant, agent or guide, or as the servant, agent or guide of any other person, shall build a camp, cooking or other fire, or use an abandoned camp, cooking or other fire in or adjacent to any woods in this state, shall, before leaving such fire, totally extinguish the same, and upon failure to do so such person shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars...
Seite 9 - But in towns particularly exposed to damages from forest fires, the supervisor may divide the same into two or more districts, bounded, as far as may be, by roads, streams of water, or dividing ridges of land or lot lines, and he may, in writing, appoint one resident citizen in each district as district firewarden therein.
Seite 125 - ... such districts such number of deputy forest fire wardens as in his judgment may be required to carry out the provisions of this act, assigning to each of the latter the territory over and within which he shall have jurisdiction. All chief and deputy forest fire wardens, so appointed, shall hold office during the pleasure of said Commissioner, be sworn to the faithful discharge of their duties by any officer authorized to administer oaths, and a certificate thereof shall be returned to the office...
Seite 138 - Every year a certain section of each "lease" is burned over. This burning must be done very early in the spring, before the ground becomes dry; otherwise the fire goes too deep, the humus is burned from the ground and most of the bushes are killed. Many hundred acres on what should be the best part of the '"barrens
Seite 136 - J/2 inch wide ; flowers few, in clusters which are sometimes numerous on naked branches, appearing with the leaves; pedicels usually shorter than the flowers; corolla oblong-campanulate, greenish white; berry blue, with bloom (rarely white), moist places, May and June. Fruit ripe July and August. This species, usually more vigorous in habit than the preceding, grows more commonly in rather moist, rocky, not swampy, localities. The firuit (fig. 4) is larger and more acid than the other low forms (hence...