434 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION Septembei 



tiers narrowly escaped with their lives, interesting to note also the destructior 



losing homes and farm buildings. Dense by forest fires in British Columbia, 



smoke, arising from the burning of where immense damage has been done, 



underbrush and green timber at the In a dispatch to the Chicago Record- 



head of Ten Mile Creek, in close prox- Herald four lives are reported losl 



imity to mining camps, forced miners through a fire near Vancouver, and tht 



and prospectors to abandon them. loss is placed as high as $60,000,000 



A campfire left burning by berry- Along the entire eastern side of Van 



pickers in Linn county, Oregon, near couver Island forest fires were burning 



Lebanon, is said to have originated a on August 20, and near Victoria greai 



forest fire, which by August 18 had de- damage is reported to the standing tim 



stroyed a shingle mill and devastated ber. On Valdez Island a clean swat! 



over 30 square miles of valuable timber, has been cut by the flames, and it wa< 



spreading over a large part of the said that the whole of Hornby Islam 



county. In the Willamette Valley for- was ablaze. At East Kootenay fires o: 



est fires in scattered localities caused large magnitude were reported, and ai 



considerable uneasiness and damaged Fernie over $200,000 worth of valuable 



a large amount of timber. Scattered timber was destroyed, including th( 



fires in Douglas county required atten-' whole season's cut of logs, and th< 



tion on August 19, but little damage is destruction of several mills narrowl} 



reported to have occurred. averted. 



At Junction City, in Shasta county, Reports from Camborne, in the Koote 



California, a forest fire was reported on nays, indicated a loss of $25,000 througl 



August 1 7 to have inflicted consider- destruction of mining buildings, offices 



able damage, and Siskiyou county has mills, etc. On August 19 Wellington 



had some loss through three small fires. B. C., was in danger of complete de 



On Bear River, in Placer county, a for- struction, and grave danger was appre 



est fire early in the month burned out hended from the close proximity of ; 



the Rising Sun hoisting works, a stamp large powder magazine to the path o 



mill, powder mill, and office building, the flames. It is understood that mucl 



besides destroying several hundred property was destroyed in the town'; 



cords of wood, and for a time a fire in outskirts. Nelson, B. C., was threat 



Lytle Creek Canyon, near San Bernar- ened in a like manner. The Canadiai 



dino, threatened the safety of some of government also suffered through th< 



the big power plants supplying that destruction of 20,000 railway ties in ! 



city with electricity and water. At Ne- large bush fire in the Temiskamingdis 



vada City, in Nevada county, and at trict of Ontario, while in Newfoundlanc 



Loyalton, in Sierra county, incipient renewed outbreaks of forest fires de 



forest fires occasioned minor damage, stroyed valuable timber. It is stated b? 



Forest rangers in Wj'oming succeeded the Canadian press that so far this sea 



in stamping otit two forest fires which son $20,000,000 worth of timber ha; 



threatened to become disastrous before been destroyed in the interior of New 



considerable damage ensued. They oc- foundland by forest fires, and the fire 



curred in the Wind River Mountains, in British Columbia are pronounced thi 



near Lander, and at Pinedale, nearFre- most destructive since 1896. 



mont Lake. Outside of a small forest fire neai 



On the north fork of Cceur d'Alene Verdi, Nevada, and one of inconsidera 



River, in Idado, numerous forest fires, ble magnitude on the Gila River Fores 



principally of minor importance, de- Reserve of Arizona, no further fires hav< 



stroyed a limited extent of timber in occurred in the West, and, so far ai 



the first week of August, and a continu- newspaper reports show, no fires of an] 



ation of the fires near the state line of magnitude have occurred in the easten 



Washington also inflicted damage. half of the United States, except nea 



Apropos of the prevalence of forest Gaylord, Michigan, where some damag< 



fires on the state boundary line between to buildings and crops was sustained lat< 



Washington, Idaho, and Oregon, it is in July. 



