as a result of the forest fires. These estimates 

 include 448,000,000 feet board measure on 

 about 75 per cent of the 128,000 acres which 

 have so far been examined, with the proba- 

 bility that this amount will be increased from 

 one to two hundred million feet by timber 



Old Grade Which Made an Effective Fire Line Near 

 Pine Cone Camp 



that will die during the next two years. The 

 stumpage value of this timber is estimated at 

 $6 per thousand. 



The expense to the David Ward Estate in 

 fighting forest fires during the summer and 

 autumn of 1908 was $5,519.23. Of the timber 

 killed, from sixty to seventy million feet will 

 likely be cut during the present lumbering 



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