1902. 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



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FOREST RUINED BY FIRE, WHITE RIVER RESERVE, COLORADO. 



children to the number of sixty hurried 

 through. 



On the same da}^ at Kanaskat a tract 

 of seven square miles was burned, and 

 at Covington also a large area v^^as trav- 

 ersed by the flames. In Snokomish 

 county the loss to timber amounted to 

 at least $20,000. 



Colorado, Near Ouray a fire on Cor- 

 bett Creek damaged at least 5,000 acres 

 of the best timber in the vicinity. In 

 the Lightner Creek district near Du- 

 rango fires destroyed many miners' 

 cabins, and at onetime a band of 2,000 

 sheep were hemmed in by the flames. 

 One estimate of the loss of standing tim- 

 ber in the mountains west of Durango 

 places it at $1,000,000. 



An area of ten square miles of timber 

 was burned over near Rudi, Pitkin 

 county, early in June. The American 

 Gold Dredging Company, whose plant 

 is located near Breckinridge, lost 2,000 

 cords of wood in a recent forest fire. 

 There were also a number of destructive 

 forest fires in the Leadville district dur- 

 ing June. A forest fire near Dillon de- 

 stroyed nearly 3,000 acres of timber. 



Register Joj'ce, of the State Land 



Board, claims that some of these fires 

 have been of incendiary origin, and a 

 strong effort is being made to apprehend 

 the guilty parties. 



California, On June 29 a forest fire 

 in the Tuolumne Mountains threatened 

 the destruction of the famous Tuolumne 

 grove of Big Trees. The fire was due 

 to the carelessness of a government sur- 

 veying party in failing to put out signal 

 fires. The embers were scattered b}' a 

 high wind at night, with the result of 

 the flames spreading across the moun- 

 tains in the direction of the Big Tree 

 Grove. A message was sent to Wawona, 

 asking that soldiers be sent to the scene 

 to assist in fighting the fire, and they 

 responded at once. A large acreage of 

 pasturage has been destroyed, and some 

 of the most picturesque portions of Tuo- 

 lumne count}^ have been burned over. 



A forest fire which was started by 

 careless campers on Nendenhall ranch, 

 near Livermore, destroyed several dwell- 

 ings. Forest fires were also reported 

 from O' Byrnes Ferr^^ 



Wyoming, Forest fires are reported 

 from Elk Mountain and Timber Moun- 

 tain, the latter destroying the buildings 



