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ANNUAL REPORT OF 

 SUMMARY OF PRAIRIE FIKBS— Continued. 



County and Towns. 



Murray County — 

 Dovray 



Norman County — 

 Good Hope 



Polk County — 



Chester 



Eden 



Parnell 



Vineland 



Red Lake County — 



Black River 



Lambert 



Redwood County — 

 Vaile 



Roseau County — 

 Dewey 



Yellow Medicine Co.- 

 Minnesota Falls . . 



Date. 



Dec. 21 



Jan. 23 (1900). 



May 2 



May 13 



Oct. 7 



Nov. 3 



Nov. 5 



May 4 



Sept. 27 



Nov. I 



Nov. 8 



Acres. 



60 



1,600 

 200 



3,000 

 300 



500 

 300 



100 



8,000 



25 



Damage. 



300 



50 



None 



50 

 200 

 None 



150 



None 



135 

 60 



Unknown. 



Unknown. 



Burning meadow. 

 Unknown. 

 Burning grass. 

 Burning brush. 



Unknown. 

 Burning break. 



Unknown. 



Unknown. 



Burning stubble. 



Total acres burned over, 24,616. Damage, $4,856. 

 Per cent extinguished or controlled by fire wardens, 44. 

 Classification of causes: 



Burning grass, straw or stubble, 6. 



Railroad locomotives, 6. 



Other causes, 4. 



Unknown, 18. 



Reports of Fire Wardens of Prairie Fires in 1899. 



becker county. 



[From the Pioneer Press of November joth.\ 

 [Special.] White Earth, Nov. gth. — Prairie and timber fires 

 have been raging in the vicinity of the agency during the past 

 week. A great deal of damage has been done to hard wood timber. 



George W. Taylor, of Detroit, November 20th: 



I visited the section of country on the White Earth reservation where the recent 

 fire occurred. It was difficult to ascertain where it priginated, owing to the 

 sparsely settled condition of most of the territory over whfch the fire ran. It was 

 mostly confined to prairie lands lying west and north of the agency a few miles 

 and extended to some extent through some timber, mostly poplar, and over which 



