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A PRIMER OF FORESTRY. 



a town of 2,000 inhabitants. Other tires of about the 



same time were most 

 destructive in Michi- 

 gan. A strip about 

 40 miles wide and 

 180 miles long, ex- 

 tending across the 

 central part of the 

 State from Lake 

 Michigan to Lake 

 Huron, was devas- 

 tated. The estimated 

 loss in timber was 

 about 4,000,000,000 



FiQ. 77. — A burnt forest near Monte Criato 

 in the Washinston Forest Reserve. 



feet board measure, and in 

 money over $10,000,000. 

 Several hundred i:)ersons per- 

 ished. 



In the early part of Sep- 

 tember, 1881, great fires cov- 

 ered more than 1,800 square 

 miles in various parts of 

 Michigan. The estimated 

 loss, in property, in addition 

 to many hundred thousand 

 acres of valuable timber, 

 was more than $2,300,000. 

 Over 5,000 persons were 

 made destitute, and the num- 

 ber of lives lost is variously 

 estimated at from 150 to 500. 



The most destructive fire 

 of more recent years was 

 that which started near Hinckley, ]\rinn., September 1 



Fig. 78.— a single Red Fir, spared 

 by the tire, remaius to indicate 

 what the burnt area is capable of 

 })roducing. Washington Forest 

 Reserve. 



