GORHAIVI, N. H., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1908. 



BURNING FOBESTS. 



For a Week Great Forest Fires Have Been 

 Kaging Here. 



Last Wednesday afternoon the forest 

 fires which were extinguished, or sup- 

 posed to have been, by the rain of a 

 short time ago, sprung up again. \ 



The fire on the opposite side of the ' 

 Androscoggin from the Cascade mill 

 came to fife and swept up back of 

 Mount Hayes and into the Lead-mine, 

 Burbank and Ingalls valleys in Shel- 

 burne. 



Some say that this latest fire was first 

 noticed on the Lary lot, so called, on 

 the north side of the Androscoggin 

 river near the Malloy farm, and that it 

 was caused by hunters, as the location 

 where the fire was first seen was near 

 a shack in a swamp remote from the 

 railroad and any previous fire this year. 



I Mount Baldcap was burned over and 

 the fire was headed straight for valu- 

 able pine timber on the farms of C. G. 

 Hamlin and A. E. Philbrook Sunday, 

 but it was checked somewhat before 

 the pine was reached. 



All the available men in this vicinity 

 were sent to Shelburne by William 

 Jewell & Son, acting for the Interna- 

 tional Paper company, and M. P. 

 Blanchard of the G. W. Blanchard & 

 Son company also had a crew of men 

 fighting the fires. In addition to these 

 Were all the Shelburne 'men that were 

 able to fight fire, and some from Gilead. 



Saturday night the fire was within 

 about 100 rods of C. A. Chandler's camp 

 in the Burbank valley. 

 A fire swept over Mount Forist in 



' Berlin last Saturday and Sunday, and 

 Sunday afternoon an alarm was sounded 

 to call out the Berlin fire department to j 

 protect the houses near the base of the i 



I mountain. 



The fire line on the north side of the 



! river yesterday reached a length of 

 about nine miles, and included in its 



i wake the Stevens and Gates valleys, 



I and yesterday afternoon it looked as 

 though it must work up over the east 

 spur of Mount Hayes back into Gorham. 

 Hundreds of men are engaged in 



1 fighting the fires, but unless rain soon 

 comes the outcome is doubtful. 



The fire came over the east spur of 

 Mount Hayes in several places shortly 

 after noon today. 



