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The following tabic shows tha percentages of forest fires occasioned 
by locomotives in the sevenu States so far as ascertainable from the 
reports received : 
Table showing number of forest fires in lSfc'O, acres burned, number of fires caused by loco- 
motives, percentage of ihe.se compared with forest fires from all causes, and probable 
I'ulue of property destroyed by locomotives in each State from which reports have been re- 
ceived. 
States. 
Alabama 
Delaware 
Georgia 
Indiana 
Iowa 
Kansas 
Kentucky 
Matno — 
Maryland 
Massachusetts.. 
Michigan 
Minnesota 
Mississippi 
M.osouri 
Montana , 
New Hampshire 
New Jersey 
New Mexico 
New York , 
North Carolina .. 
Ohio , 
Pennsylvania.... 
South Carolina... 
Tennessee , 
Vermont 
Virginia 
"West Virginia... 
Wisconsin 
Total 
Percentage 
of for- 
es. 
rned. 
saused 
otives. 
of all. 
s . 
05 J? 
00 ?v 
O > 
num- 
acres 
by lo- 
res. 
CD 
a « 
Acres bu 
a -2 
Per cent. 
Probable 
locomot 
Probable 
ber of 
burned 
comotr 
72 
4 
Q 
$7, 273 
34, 149 
14 
3,305 
6 
42 
6. 583 
1,368 
54 
705, 351 
2 
4 
6, 704 
28, 214 
99 
90, 427 
20 
20 
26, 067 
18, 085 
46 
11,017 
5 
11 
5, 001 
1,212 
10 
7, 080 
1 
10 
1,470 
708 
106 
556, 647 
12 
11 
26, 139 
61,231 
76 
35, 230 
14 
18 
. 22, 197 
6, 341 
66 
41,076 
16 
24 
8, 982 
9, 858 
159 
13, 899 
52 
33 
33, 746 
4, 586 
2G7 
238, 271 
250, 805 
43 
16 
157, 758 
38, 123 
84 
IS 
15 
209, 266 
37, 620 
39 
222. 800 
1 
3 
2, 355 
6, 684 
97 
783, 646 
16 
16 
47, 178 
125, 383 
5 
88, 020 
1 
20 
225,600 
17, 604 
27 
5, 954 
12 
44 
27, 988 
2, 620 
54 
71, 074 
28 
52 
131, 154 
36, 948 
47 
64, 034 
1 
2 
2, 950 
1,280 
102 
149, 491 
43 
42 
508, 530 
62, 786 
221 
546, 102 
11 
5 
17, 899 
27, 305 
192 
74, 114 
27 
14 
111, 603 
10, 375 
381 
685, 738 
133 
35 
1, 065, 303 
240, 008 
67 
431,730 
1 
1 5 
4, 308 
6, 476 
73 
98.->, 4.'i() 
6 
8 
420, 398 
78, 834 
18 
3, 941 
5 
28 
13, 571 
1, 103 
51 
272, 319 
13 
25 
81, 761 
68, 080 
54 
476, 775 
7 
13 
20, 186 
01, 980 
108 
406, 298 
12 
11 
79, 817 
44, 693 
3,291,847 
12.9 pr. ct. 
1, 033, 571 
10.06 pr. ct. 
There are some particular considerations in connection with forest 
fires which make them worthy of special notice. In the first place, in 
the case of coniferous trees, they may not only consume the ripe tim- 
ber, causing its total loss, but they destroy the young trees, which would 
soon replace the full-grown ones and thus continue the existence of 
the forest. But this is not all. The destruction of the forests by fire is 
often much more disastrous, attended by effects reaching beyond the sim- 
ple destruction of growing wood, whether old or young. The lumber, 
man cuts simply the standing timber, leaving the ground to be covered 
soon by auother wood growth, possibly not so good as that removed, 
but having an appreciable value. In a forest of deciduous trees 
many of the stumps soon send up copious sprouts, and, if cattle are not 
allowed to intrude, a coppice will be quickly formed. But where the 
forest is ravaged by fire, there is involved not only the destruction of 
the present stand of timber, or at least its great deterioration, but the 
roots of the trees may also be burned and their vitality destroyed. The 
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