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THE FORESTER. 



August, 



are stationed on Bear Mountain to keep a 

 close watch and sound the alarm in the 

 event of the fire starting up again."- San 

 Francisco Call, July 1 1 . 



" SANTA BARBARA. What appears to 

 be a big: forest fire in the Mono district of 



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the forest reservation is indicated by dense 

 volumes of smoke rolling above the moun- 

 tain tops. It appeared shortly before 

 noon, and the forest supervisor left early 

 this afternoon with a force of men to quell 

 the flames."- Los Angeles Times, July 13. 



" PHCENIX, Ariz., July 2. Reports 

 from eastern and southeastern Arizona state 

 that forest fires have broken out afresh in 

 many of the mountain ranges, and unless 

 there is rain soon the loss in timber will 

 be immense. 



" For over a week a great fire has been 

 raging on the Sierra Ancha, and is particu- 

 larly visible from Globe. It has burned 

 already a distance of twelve miles and 

 over a strip from three to four miles wide, 

 an area covered entirely by fine timber 

 and affording range for hundreds of cattle. 

 A fire in the Huachuaca Range has taken 

 a fresh start and has driven out all the 

 cattle and game. The military depart- 

 ment at Fort Huachuaca will make an 

 effort to stop the fire before it encroaches 

 on the reservation."- San Francisco Call, 



J ul y 3- 



' H. G. Hamaker, supervisor of the 

 I Mack Hills forest reserve, returned to 

 Deadvvood yesterday from Sand Creek, 

 where he had been since Friday night, 

 fighting the big timber fire that was burn- 

 ing there. He and his men put in a try- 

 ing time for several days and nights, with 

 no sleep, limited rations and unremitting 

 toil. * * * 



' Mr. Hamaker said it cost the govern- 

 ment about $200 to fight this fire. It had 

 been burning a week or ten days before 

 Mi. Ilamaker was notified of it. There 

 i- no ranker in that section of the country 

 1 the people living there neglected 

 '" inform the government official" Mr. 

 Ilamaker heard of it a week ago Friday 

 .ind went out there immediately, getting 

 there Friday nijrht. * * * 



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Mr. Ilamaker says the tract burned 



over is about five miles square, and he 

 estimates the loss of timber on the public 

 domain to be about 1 2,000,000 feet. About 

 5,000,000 feet of the timber was destroyed 

 on patented land. This was some of the 

 finest timber in the country. Mr. Hamaker 

 says it is not destroyed, and could be util- 

 ized for lumber if it were in an accessible 

 locality. But it has been killed and must 

 be used within the next year or it will be 

 worthless. The branches have been burned 

 off, and the bare trunks have been left 

 standing." Herald, Salt Lake City, July 

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" SANDWICH, Mass., July 20. A forest 

 fire which now extends over a territory of 

 at least t\venty-five square miles and which 

 threatens with destruction nearly a score 

 of towns about this portion of the Cape 

 district, is the result of a blaze started 

 yesterday in the vicinity of Patchville by 

 some berry pickers. Hundreds of men 

 are working night and day to check the 

 progress of the flames, but as the brush is 

 as dry as tinder and as the flames jump 

 first one way and then another they are 

 almost helpless. * * * 



" The fire now has no general direction, 

 but is spread out in the district between 

 Sandwich and Buzzard's Bay, bounded by 

 the main line of the Consolidated Road 

 and by the towns of Cataumet, Wenaumet, 

 and the Falmouths, and the brush and tim- 

 ber between is a roaring mass of flames. 

 Oftentimes, backfiring has proved of no 

 avail. It has been a terrible battle for the 

 men, and many are coming out of the 

 woods in an exhausted condition, and they 

 express no hope that the fire will be checked 

 unless rain comes. * * * 



tl To-night the wind is from the south- 

 west, which is likely to increase rather 

 than diminish the ferocity of the fire. No 

 estimate of the damage already done can 

 be given, nor can anything definite be said 

 as to the progress the flames will make to- 

 night and the probable damage they w r ill 

 cause."- New York Times, July 21. 



This fire was finally checked by back- 

 firing and the help of a favorable wind 

 after it had burned over thirty square 

 miles. 



