Systematic Fire Protection in the California Forests |
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acre average back-fire big sugar cache California camp campers cause cent chaparral communication connection control force cost crew detection district forester district office district ranger effective emergency equipment extension bells factor feet fire danger fire fighters fire line fire protection fire season fire-fighting forest fireman Forest officer Forest Service furnished ground handle heliograph horse inflammable inflammable material labor logs lookout point lookout service lookout station McLeod tool method miles Mind taken minutes mountain National Forest necessary needed normal number of fires operation owner pack patrolmen period pine plow Plumas National Forest Pony glass possible powder protection finances protection force purpose ranger district rate of spread risk secure signals slash smoke snags standard sugar pine summer supervisor supplies TABLE timber tion tower transportation tree twisted pair unit volunteer wire wood
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Page 32 - State where he may be found and agreeably to the usual mode of process against offenders in such State, and at the expense of the United States, be arrested and imprisoned, or bailed, as the case may be, for trial before such court of the United States as by law has cognizance of the offense. Copies of the process shall be returned as speedily as may be into the clerk's office of such court, together with the recognizances of the witnesses for their appearance to testify in the case.
Page 29 - SEC. 53. Whoever shall build a fire in or near any forest, timber, or other inflammable material upon the public domain...
Page 29 - An act to prevent forest fires on the public domain," is as follows : "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person who shall willfully or maliciously set on fire, or cause to be set on fire, any timber, underbrush, or grass upon the public domain, or shall...
Page 71 - If the receiver sees that the sender's mirror needs adjustment, he will turn on a steady flash until answered by a steady flash. When the adjustment Is satisfactory, the receiver will cut off his flash and the sender will resume his message.
Page 71 - In receiving messages nothing should be taken for granted, and nothing considered as seen until it has been positively and clearly in view. Do not anticipate what will follow from signals already given. Watch the communicating station until the last signals are made, and be very certain that the signal for the end of the message has been given. 7. Every address must contain at least two words and should be sufficient to secure delivery. 8. All that the sender writes for transmission after the word...
Page 71 - To call a station make its call letter until acknowledged. If the call letter of a station be unknown, signal A until acknowledged. Each station will then turn on a steady flash and adjust. When the adjustment is satisfactory to the called station, it will cut off its flash, and the calling station will proceed with its message.
Page 45 - If we are to have a fight with the Zulus, I am anxious that our arrangements should be as complete as it is possible to make them. Half measures do not answer with natives. They must be thoroughly crushed to make them believe in our superiority; and if I am called upon to conduct operations against them, I shall strive to be in a position to show them how hopelessly inferior they are to us in fighting power although numerically...
Page 34 - ... against the peace and dignity of the United States of America, and contrary to the form of the statute of the said United States of America, in such case made and provided.
Page 30 - Act was a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500 or imprisonment in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than six months, or both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.70.
Page 32 - For any offense against the United States, the offender may, by any justice or judge of the United States, or by any United States commissioner, or by any chancellor, judge of a supreme or superior court, chief or first judge of common pleas, mayor of a city, justice of the peace, or other magistrate, of any state where the offender may be found, and at the expense of the United States...