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that quarter-sawed White Oak will be "At Eldora the fire is reported under 



selling at $75 to $So a thousand within control and dying out, but it is admitted that 



the next five years. This may be a some- a high wind from the southeast would 



what radical view, but it is a fact that the rouse it to a fury of flame, and a spirit of 



amount of oak stumpage in this country is uneasiness pervades the community. * * * 



much less than is commonly believed." " The immediate cause of the fire has 



American Lumberman, July 21. not been discovered, but it is said to have 



been due to the carelessness of the men at 

 Caviness mill. * * * 



During the past "While the loss in buildings has not 



Forest Fn:es during montn forest fires, been so great as was feared, the destruc- 



though much less tion of timber will give a set-back to min- 



common than a month ago, have been ing operations in that district for years to 

 burning with greater or less destruction in come, for the reason that the needed tim- 

 all parts of the country. The following ber will be missing and it will have to be 

 are a few of the many press accounts brought from long distances at a great out- 

 which have been received. They refer to lay of trouble and expense."- Post (Den- 

 only a few of many fires and are not se- ver, Col.), July 15. 



lected because they are especially striking. "ANGELS CAMP, July 10. -A most de- 

 Anybody who has read the papers will structive grass fire has been in progress a 

 have seen more impressive articles. They few miles from this place since Saturday 

 are merely typical notices of the burning noon. The damage it has wrought in one 

 of woodland, a large part of it unrecorded, way and another is unestimated, but will 

 which is taking place in every State. amount well into the thousands. This is 



"A Despatch special from Kalispell, the first fire this season of any great im- 



Mont., says: One of the worst forest fires portance, and has set wonderful object 



ever known in northwestern Montana is lessons on the necessity of guarding against 



now raging in the Swan Lake country, on such accidents. It is not known how the 



the western part of the Lewis and Clarke fire originated, but there is a possibility of 



forest reserve. The Indians set fire to the it being the work of an incendiary. On 



timber and are slaughtering the game. Saturday the alarm was first sounded, and 



Within the space of thirty miles up and hardly had the work of extinguishing the 



down the river there are over thirty fires first blaze begun before the wind turned 



now burning fiercely. As fast as one fire and the fire swept from one hill to another, 



is extinguished another is set, and the until Bear Mountain was one mass of 



rangers are almost worn out. The weather flame and smoke. * * * 



is very hot and dry, and the fires spread " On Sunday the fire broke away again, 



rapidly-"- Boston Transcript, July 26. and with a roar like a distant cannonade 



" The forest fires which have been rag- started down the valley at the base of 

 ing around Eldora for the past three days Bear Mountain. Men, wearied with their 

 are still burning, and show no signs of im- efforts and all-night vigils, rushed beyond 

 mediate abatement, and unless a rain comes to ' back fire ' and try to turn the course 

 soon the loss, which is already great, will but before they were aware of it a flame 

 be simply tremendous. The loss already shot across Angels Creek and into the 

 involves millions of dollars' woi'th of stand- treetops on the opposite side, a distance 

 ing timber, and the Boulder Canon region of 300 01-400 feet. Almost immediately a 

 for an area of ten square miles has been cloud of blackest smoke rose into the air 

 changed from a virgin forest to a smould- and could be plainly seen for miles around, 

 ering desert. The whole valley for miles All efforts to check the fire were in vain, 

 is full of smoke, which mounts up in huge and it swept on for four miles to the Stan- 

 clouds above the highest mountains in the islaus River, which it reached in two 

 neighborhood, while at night the sky is hours. Every effort is being made to keep 

 painted with a lurid glow visible for miles. it from jumping across the river, and men 



