470 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION October 



a forest fire in the vicinity of that city. ward the head of Lagunitas Canyon. 

 A fire reported on September 16 at the In Redwood Canyon a bush fire of 

 head of Lake Washington burned over minor importance developed into a fierce 

 7,000 acres of land and destroyed 200,- blaze which did considerable damage, 

 ooo feet of lumber, besides burning a placed by newspapers as high as $75,000. 

 logging camp. State aid was extended In Alameda and Contra Costa counties 

 the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, it is said that losses will aggregate thou- 

 and the Cole Shingle Company in fight- sands of dollars, while in Marin county 

 ing fires in township 13 of Pacific 14,000 acres are said to have been de- 

 county, vastated, entailing a large property loss 



Montana. Newspaper reports indi- and threatening the destruction of sev- 

 cate that 100,000 feet of lumber have eral villages. Fires in Amador, Plumas, 

 been burned by a forest fire which, on and Tehama counties are said to have 

 August 25, was making headway to- caused no small damage, while in the 

 ward Saw Tooth Canyon. The forest Big Basin, in Santa Cruz and Santa 

 fires prevalent near Kalispell , mention Clara counties, a big blaze laid waste a 

 of which was made in the September large territory, and for a time threat- 

 number of FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION, ened the destruction of the famous Big 

 have practically been extinguished. Basin Park. A large area of pasturage 

 The losses are said to have been over has been burned over in Monterey and 

 $25,000 in timberlands alone. On Au- San Luis Obispo counties ; at Cohasset, 

 gust 30 forest fires of considerable mag- Butte county ; in Sonoma county, near 

 nitude were reported at the head of the Santa Rosa ; in Yolo county, to the 

 Bitter Root Valley, and a blaze in the west, and in Yuba county, in the Straw- 

 Deer Creek country, near Big Timber, berry Valley section, considerable dam- 

 on lands adjacent to and within the age has been done. The Sacramento 

 Absarokee Forest Reserve, burned over Bee estimates a total loss of about 

 some valuable pine and fir timberlands. $35,000 from forest fires in the Santa 

 Rain on September 22 practically ex- Lucia Hills, near Salinas. A fire at 

 tinguished forest fires to the west of Keswick, California, caused a property 

 Anaconda, which had been burning loss estimated at $10,000. Flames swept 

 with considerable damage to timber, over Eddy Mountain, in Siskiyou 

 mining, and quarry property since Sep- county, doing much damage to valua- 

 tember 13. Another fire east of Ana- ble timber, and the southern part of 

 conda, presumably started by careless Humboldt county is said to have been 

 campers, was checked by dynamite after laid waste. Near San Bernardino, in 

 large damage. North of Missoula, on the vicinity of the famous Arrowhead, 

 the Rattlesnake, a forest fire is reported forest rangers had difficulty in quelling 

 to have inflicted loss, and fires extend- forest fires. 



ing from the Idaho line to Trout Creek Idaho. At Rathdrum, Kootenai 



delayed Northern Pacific trains and did county, a high wind fanned a small for- 



minor damage to timber. est fire into a destructive blaze, which 



California. A large number of forest entailed considerable loss. At Spirit 



fires, some of considerable magnitude, Lake, a summer resort 40 miles from 



devastated California throughout its Spokane, Wash., considerable damage 



area. Most of these occurred from Sep- is reported. At Cceur d'Alene City, 



tember 7 to 14. Probably the most se- also in Kootenai county, some loss was 



rious of these fires started early in Sep- occasioned. 



tember in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Minnesota. A forest fire started on 

 and newspapers report the loss of three August 28 in the dead timber and slash- 

 lives and $100,000 in property, exclu- ings near Park Rapids and caused con- 

 sive of extensive damage to timber, siderable anxiety as to its probable re- 

 Several valuable hotels and summer suit to the town. 



residences were consumed and much Newfoundland. A continuance of 



standing timber destroyed in a forest the destructive fires in this province 



fire that swept from Bolinas Ridge to- has inflicted large damage. Canadian 



