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Scientific American, Vol. 99, No. 20 (November 1908) (1908)

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reason of the enormous dollars, representing the value of the timber, the While the total loss cannot be exactly estimated, the extent of the pine forests. The tracts of first-growth buildings* and other property in the burned area. The investigation which is now being made by the United pine are… … The destruction wrought by forest fire in a western Tillage—only the One cause of the forest fire—waste lumber and sawdust carelessly ignited machinery of a factory left* and left to burn. The wind is carrying the fire directly into the standing timber. The rapidity with which a forest fire…

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