there was practically complete destruction of 

 green stands of hardwood timber; often the 

 surface fires and even the heavy crown fires 

 were turned aside by a narrow wagon road. 

 A hunting camp in the center of the severest 

 fires, on the S. E. 54 of Section 14, T. 29 N., 

 R. 5 W., was saved by an old railroad grade 



Typical Old Railroad Grade 



which lay southwest of the camp. This old 

 grade had been cleared for a short distance 

 to serve as a fire line, and this line of itself 

 turned aside a heavy crown fire in a young 

 pine stand. The fire, however, managed to 

 cross the grade in the same growth above the 

 cleared point, and the camp was eventually 

 saved only by making, on the other borders 



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