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A PRDIER OF FORESTRY. 



a town of 2,000 inhabitants. 



Fig. 77.— A burnt forest near Monte Cristo 

 in the Washington Forest Reserve. 



feet board measure, and in 

 money over $10,000,000. 

 Several hundred persons per- 

 ished. 



In the early part of Sep- 

 tember, 1881, great fires cov- 

 ered more than 1,800 square 

 miles in various parts of 

 Michigan. The estimated 

 loss, in property, in addition 

 to many hundred thousand 

 acres of valuable timber, 

 was more than $2,300,000. 

 Over 5,000 persons were 

 made destitute, and the num- 

 ber of lives lost is variously 

 estimated at from 150 to 500. 



The most destructive fire 

 of more recent years was 



Other fires of about the 

 same time were mcst 

 destructive in Michi- 

 gan. A strip about 

 10 miles wide and 

 180 miles long, ex- 

 tending across the 

 central part of the 

 State from Lake 

 Michigan to Lake 

 Huron, was devas- 

 tated. The estimated 

 loss in timber was 

 about 4,000,000,000 



Fig. 78.— A single Red Fir, spared 

 by the fire, remains to indicate 

 "what the burnt area is capable of 

 producing. Washington Forest 

 Reserve. 



that which started near Hinckley, Minn., September 1, 



