Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-30
MORE FOREST FIRES
With Heavy Damage Raging Up on
the Enchanted-LittIe Rain.

A Gardiner special to the Lewiston
Journal Thursday says:
New forest fires broke out Tuesday
up on the Enchanted. running through
1000, 900 of timber on the west half OF
the southern part of Enchanted. This
is known as the south half of No. 3
and is owned by Lawrence Brothers
Co. of South Gardiner.
Telephone messages received
Wednesday by this lumber company
from Edward McKenney of Jackman
stated that all the timber land on the
that unless a heavy rain came the
south half of No 3 would be entirely
burned over. Northern Maine had blu:
four hours of rain Monday night and
while this suppressed the fires 10 some
extent, they were not eXtlnSuished
and the roots of the trees are still
burning and in many places the fires
have burst out again.
These fires burrow in the ground
| until the wind blows and then goes
| into the trees. All the fires We're still
| burning Wednesday and a large per
cent. will cause heavy loss.
Up to the present time wild land
owners have been fortunate inasmuch
that there have been no heavy winds.
Let the winds start up and the fl c
losses will be doubled. The fire war;
dens are doing all that they can to
prevent the further spread of the fires
but against the winds they would be
powerless.
| Up to Wednesday, the forest fires
had taken nearly all the timber land
from. Attean town, Foreside. Lowell
town, Holeb. No. 6, No. 5, Hobbs town
Stony Brook, ]. Manchester Haines
land on Dallas town in the Dead river
section.
| Most of the serious fires have been
on Kennebec waters; with 24,00(
acres to whole township. these losses
mean a big thing to lumbermen, and
it will take from so to IS years tc
produce a second growth of timber.
| Until the rains of Wednesday night
it has been practically, one continuous
fire in the whole northern Maine tim
| Der country, and it is the opinion OF
some of the Kennebec lumbermen that
even the rains. unless of long duration
cannot put it out; that the fire will
continue to shoulder and burn unit
| the snow comes.
| 1t is stated by a lumberman who is
prominent in the Kennebec valley re-
gon that the forest fires started neal
| Attean mountain, and that they were
caused by track men of the Canadian
Pacific Railroad who set fires once q
year to burn up their rubbish, Ole
sleepers and other things that collect
When about to set their fires this fall
the fire warden at this point remon-
strated with them on account of the
unusually dry weather that prevailed
The railroad men. it is alleged. told
the warden they should set fires when
and where they pleased, and it is al
| legged the first of the forest fires origi-
mated in this way.
The fires started near Attean Noun
| tain and came east. The wind was
presumably west at this time, for the
| fire run up over the mountain before
| it reached Henry Mckenneys camps
then went on to Forsythe town up
north. At this point another fire
| caught, crossed from the Attean fire
| and crossed to the other side of Moose
river. burning over the land OF Hiram
| Moore at Jackman town. three miles
below Jackman, toward Parlin pond
! below the Canadian Pacific Railroad
| No. fire was caused by the careless
| ness of spOrtsmen. it is said.
This was the beginning of the fire,
according to cumberland owner who
| has just returned from the great
| Northern fire belt. Much of the tim
| Der in and near the path of the fires
! fell over and the expense of getting
| out the unburnt portion will be heavy.
| If it is not hauled out this winter it
! never will be, and when the deep snow
comes, it will be serious business,
getting this fallen timber out of the
woods.