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GORHAM, N. H., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1908. 



THE FOREST FIBES. 



Based Fiercely Throushout the Week--- 

 Much Damaee Uone. 



The forest fire which started near the 

 foot of the ice gulch last Thursday 

 evening burned for the most part in a 

 northwesterly direction. It worked its 

 way a little north, south and west, but 

 the wind favored the fighters to the ex- 

 tent of allowing them to control the fire 

 at these points. It worked its way rap- 

 idly toward the Ammonoosuc country, 

 and in that direction was beyond control 

 Saturday night. 



The fire raged fiercely in the cuttings 

 on the territory lumbered by the Berlin 

 Mills company, and as none of the cut- 

 tings were over • three years old they 

 burned like so much tinder. 



The fire fighters were fortunate in be- 

 ing able to save m,any logs which were 

 on the landings, though it got within 

 twenty feet of one landing before the 

 fire was subdued. One landing of 

 George McCarthy, a jobber for the Ber- 

 hn Mills company, contained about 35,- 

 000 feet of spruce logs, and they were 

 burned. Charles A. Chandler, propri- 

 etor of the Mount Madison house, had 

 about 300 cords of hard wood which he 

 had cut on the Berlin Mills company's 

 land, and it all escaped except three 

 piles of about a cord each. 



Thomas E. Malloy, who is a jobber 

 for the Berlin Hills company, escaped 

 without loss, though the fire burned un- 

 comfortably close to some of his land- 

 ings before it was controled. 



The fire on the south side of Mount 

 Hayes, which came over from the 

 Stevens valley last Wednesday noon, 

 burned fiercely until Saturday morning, 

 when it was thought to be under con- 

 trol. About 500 acres of land was burn- 

 ed over, though some "of it, through the 

 white birch growth, the fire did not 

 burn the trees hut ran along in the 

 leaves and dry underbrush. Whether 

 or not the growth has been killed will 

 not be known till spring. This land 

 was owned by the E. Libby & Sons 

 company and had been cut over, but 

 there was a good deal of growing tim- 

 ber on it. While mostly hard wood, 

 there was a considerable quantity of 

 small spruce, six inches and smaller. 



The fire that was raging in Success 

 crossed over into Grafton township in 

 Maine. 1 



A fire started at Darby Field Satur- 

 day night and burned fiercely before it j 

 was gotten under control. The pulp 

 wood contractors in that vicinity had 

 several thousand cords of wood cut and 

 peeled, and it was feared that the fire 

 would get into it. Such a misfortune 

 was happily averted, and Monday the 

 fire was well in hand. 



The fire in Success loomed up bril- 

 liantly back of Mount Hayes Sunday 

 night, but did not get this side of the 

 summit. Notwithstanding the wind of 

 Sunday the fire on the south side of 

 Mount Hayes did not get a new start. 



The fire that started in the Ammon- 

 oosuc country burned fiercely Sunday, 

 fanned as it was by the wind. It was 

 heading toward the one that started in 

 the ice gulch in this town. 



The fire that ran through the Stevens 

 valley in Shelburne last week in one 

 place made its way to the bank of the 

 Androscoggin river. 



The rain of Tuesday night subdued 

 the forest fires in this vicinity, and if 

 rain does not hold off too long they may 

 now be controled. 



