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the San Jacinto east and northeast of New 

 Caney was destroyed. In a walk of sev- 

 eral miles nearer that village than the tracts 

 of heaviest oak timber, it appeared to 

 the writer that every large specimen of 

 White Oak (Jfhiercus Michauxii and alba 

 (?)), of Pin Oak (J^>. fogodczfolia), 

 and most of the Loblolly had been felled 

 by the storm so that one could readily 

 believe that the thicker oak timber was a 



probably total. This same company suf- 

 fered great loss in its Pine lands, but some 

 of this lying adjacent to a tramway will be 

 saved. (Fig. 4.) A firm at Dayton in 

 Liberty County writes : "About one-half 

 of all valuable oak and pine timber in 

 this section was blown down by the Gal- 

 veston storm." 



Although there was a tremendous whip- 

 ping and breaking of branches, the storm 



LOG TRAM THROUGH STORM DAMAGED AREA TEN MILES NORTHWEST OF NEW CANEY, T* \ IS 



MOST OF THE FALLEN TIMBER HERE WILL BE SAVED. SHOWS TATTERED CONDITION 



OF FOREST, AND AN AREA OF TOTAL DESTRUCTION IN MID (iROUND. 



total wreck. One lumber company esti- rarely broke the tree trunks it simply 



mates a loss of seventy per cent, of the uprooted them. This was the more easily 



timber on one of its tracts of 13,000 acres done because the soil, noimall) 



in Montgomery County. An individual tenaceous, had been rendered vei) so 



owner of some 3,000 acres at New Caney, by the excessive rams of the preced 



probably one-half of which had been nine months. So the destruction ol pirn 



logged, estimates his loss upon the re- on the loose sandy soil, and of the oaK 



matnder at $5,000. Another lumber com- and pine on the soft alluvial bottom land 



pany reports the loss of oak timber on a was so much easier and com P ,eter \ 

 league of land northeast of New Caney as The fury of the storm after pass 



