ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF CHISHLOM, AFTER THE FIRE 



est fires ; yet the states go on year after 

 year without fire protection for their 

 timber lands, and without taking any 

 steps toward providing such protection. 

 The State Forestry Board of Minne- 

 sota now has just $11,500 per year to 



spend for protection against forest fires. 

 If the fires at Hibbing and Chishohii 

 alone caused a loss of only $5,000,000, 

 that amount at five per cent, would 

 yield $250,000 per year ; and $250,000 a 

 year would be a fund sufficiently large 



SPARED BY THE FLAMES 

 Two Churches and the $125,000 High School Building Were Untouched in the Chisholm Fire 



