Aug. 20th Lightning started six fires on NAY 1-4 SE 1-4 Sec. 

 3-43-2E. These fires joined and extended in a westerly 

 direction, burning over about 120 acres and destroying 

 about 1,000,000 ft. of merchantable timber. 



Aug. 20th Lightning started a fire on SE 1-4 Sec. 26-44-2E., 

 extending eastwardly along a burned ridge and cover- 

 ing probably fifty acres which contained not to exceed 

 300,000 ft. of merchantable timber. 



Aug. 20th Lightning started a fire on SE 1-4 NE 1-4 Sec. 

 20-44-3E., which was promptly extinguished with a loss 

 of about 20,000 ft. of all kinds of timber. 



Aug. 26th A fire started on the right-of-way of the Milwaukee 

 railway at Rover, in Sec. 34-45-2\Y. ; cause unknown. 

 This fire covered about 200 acres of sparsely timbered 

 land, the growth being scattering tamarack and yellow 

 pine. It is impossible at this time to state what amount 

 of timber was destroyed, as both species are thick 

 barked and hard to kill. Our patrolman estimated a 

 loss of not to exceed 20,000 ft. 



Aug. 30th Fire started from an unknown cause on XW 1-4 

 NW 1-4 Sec. 25-48-1 E. ; burned over a small area, de- 

 stroying about 3,000 ft. of pine timber. 



A fire started on Sec. 6-49-2E., caused by lightning. But 

 little damage was done as the land was very lightly timbered. 



A fire in Sec. 26-50- 1W. was caused by lightning. This 

 fire burned over about sixty acres of land, 'with a loss of ap- 

 proximately 100,000 ft. of white pine and probably an equal 

 amount of mixed timber. 



In July a fire was started from a donkey engine being used 

 by the D. H. Dollar Logging Company on Sec. 36-44-3E. This 

 fire spread over a large area of slash into the operation of the 

 D. H. Dollar Logging Company and that of Carey & Harper. 

 It was controlled after a stubborn fight lasting nearly three 

 weeks, being pretty generally confined to the slashing. The 

 loss of standing, green timber outside of the slashing was 

 about 1,500,000 ft. 



During the month of August a great many fires were started 

 along the south side of the St. Joe River between Coeur d'Alene 

 Lake and St. Maries, and along the west side of Coeur d'Alene 

 Lake from Coeur d'Alene to Chatcolet. These fires were nearly 



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