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A PRIMER OF FORESTRY. 



a towii of 2,000 inhabitants. 



FIG. 77. A burnt forest near Monte Oisto 

 in the "Washington Forest Reserve. 



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 



feet board measure, and in 

 money over $10,000,000. 

 Several hundred persons 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, Minn., September 1, 



FIG. 78. A single Red Fir, spared 

 by the fire, remains to indicate 

 what the burnt area is capable of 

 producing. Washington Forest 

 Reserve. 



