Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1914-09-24
IMPORTANT MEETING

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committee Of the Central West vir-
ginia Fire Protective Association held
a meeting in this city today at which
measures were adopted to cooperate
with the state and federal govern
ment in preventing aud controlling
forest fires.
A majority OF the board were pres
emit, consisting of Merritt Wilson, G.
b. Thompson, Lloyd Hansford, Geo.
W. Wilson, secretary-treasurcr, and
Nv. H. Weber, field manager and for
ester of the association. J.. A. Vi
quesney. Forest, Fish and Game War
den. and F.. X Glenn, special deputy,
were also present.
This association which was organ
lied several months ago for the pur-
pose OF supplsmenting the state and
l government in forest fire work, Is
composed of all the principal timber
land owners In central and southeast
ern West Virginia, the largest of
whom are the Cherry River Boom &
Lumber Company, with 10000 acres,
the Gauley Land Association with
175,000 acres, the West Virginia Pulp
& Paper Company with 10000 acres.
Other members are the Babcock Lum-
Der Company, George Craig & Sons,
Benis Lumber Company, Rafne-An-
drews Lumber Company, wildell
Lumber Company, Wilson Lumber
Company, Gilfillan, Neal 8 Company.
Pocahontas Land & Development
Company, Denmar Lumber Company,
Glady Fork Lumber Company, Por.-
terwood Lumber Company, and viii
liams' Heirs.
All this land belonging to the as
ISOLATION, comprising more than $780,
600 acres, is assessed annually at one
one cent per acre, which will be used
In. cooperating with the state and
government in better protecting these
forest lands from fire.
The state builds and equips lookout
stations on high mountain peaks, the
government furnishes lookout watch
men for these stations and the private
owners, through this association. fur
nish patrolmen, which makes a COM
| plete system as is now beng used in
the following II states: Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,,
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey,
Maryland, Kentucky, Michigan, Wis
consin, Idaho, Minnesota, Washing
ton, Oregon and South Dakota.
| At the above meeting the following
| patrolmen were appointed and patrol
routes assigned them:
W. F.. Lipscomb, Parsons, Tucker
county.
T. A. Hall, Rupert Greenbrier
( county.
John Irwin. fleetwood, Nicholas
county.
Lake Phillips, Spruce, Pocahontas
county
ue luItSttI, MI WtDtI, WIS given
authority to employ four more patrol
men as soon as patrol routes could be
assigned them. Sixteen federal look
out watchmen will be put on duty
within the next few days and will re-
main on duty during the dry season.
A meeting Of TIE board of directors
will be held In this city on the 18th
day OF October for the purpose OF
taking further active steps forestry
work. The board Of directors is COM
posed of the following MEMBERS
Merit Wilson, w. T. Raine, Fl. w.
Armstrong, r. ". Babcock, R. Chat
fey, H. b. Curtin, Lloyd Hansford,
~. W. Mccullough. F. H. Absolute,
A. J.. Armstrong, J. H. Dennison,
George b. Til omrson, John T. Davis,
S. e. Slaymaker and J. II. Babb.
The triple cooperation OF state, gov
eminent and private interests has
been found to be the only successful
method of combating forest fires,
and within short time West Virginia
will stand in the forefront OF all
states engaged in this important
work.