1902. 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



463 



Farm buildings ami furnishings 

 Stock. 



Hay and grain 



Fences 



Farm machinery and vehicles 

 Orchards .... 



1 1 15,000 

 30,000 

 45,000 

 20,000 

 15,000 

 90,000 



Total $2, 1 5,000 



School-houses and churches 35,000 



Wagon-road bridges . 7,000 



Total l357,ooo 



SAWMILLS AND MANUFACTURED FOREST 

 PRODUCrS DESTROYED. 



Saw-mills ^70,000 



Sawed lumber and shingles 16,000 



Logs (on skid and at mills) . . . 18,000 

 Railroad ties (on skid and in road-bed 



of O., R. and N. ) 8,000 



Telegraph and telephone poles (on 



skid) 4,000 



Cordwood (ready for market) .... 33,000 



Total |;i49,ooo 



In the dense smoke hundreds of 

 grouse, quail, and Mongohan pheasants 

 were surroiuided by fire and roasted to 

 death. Hundreds more had their wings 

 scorched, and now upon the blackened 

 forest floor fall an easy prey to prowl- 

 ing vermin. Large and small mammals 

 fared no better. Carcas.ses of deer, bear, 

 cougar, and lynx have been found, and 

 thousands of dead squirrels. 



It has been stated previously that fires 

 burned over 170,000 acres in these two 

 counties, but that cut-over lands, farm 

 clearings, and old burns constitute 50,000 

 acres. It is safe to assume that the re- 

 mainder, or 120,000 acres, contained 

 17,700 feet, B. M. , per acre, or what has 

 been considered the average for western 

 Oregon. This is a very conservative 

 estimate, for .some districts along the 



PORTLAND 



MAP OF MULTNOMAH .^ND CLACKAMAS COUNTIES, OREGON ; DOTTED SECTIONS SHOW 



BURNED AREAS. 



