Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1913-07-17
THE FOREST FIRE AND ITS HAVOC.

Not everyone has his lesson by experience 1t
spite the of the fire of 1910 there
who have experienced its horrors who might be i'm
pressed by what stake when they warned against
essness the woods Those who here at the time of the
fire need little warming but many have to Wallace
and needs only of the to- through careessness
conagation which, while it will not for many be
bad that awful holocaust do inestimahle damage
The timber is drying out Folk are beginning to
camp Woodsmen declare that should fire sweep through the
burned timber dead dry and standing the holocaust
would be far than anything the Occur dAenes have yet
experienced
Hence the need Of warning.
One who has experienced the horrors of August 90
1910 Wallace for week before lin this vicinity,
understand but they the who should understand
They do the suffering the panic the terror which
sezed the heart of Wallace the evening of August 90 1910
when after the city had been darkened for two days by smoke
the fires flowed down cataract upon it, they will not
derstand what it leave home and all the ravagng
flames with hope of seeing the accumuatons of
again. They do not know what it is to fear for loved
who thought be lost the pangs of parting which
eternity But aside from the home interest there another
viewpoint from which view the carelessness which
fires. It is that of the economic loss
Perhaps this view may appeal to those who have had
the fire experience and for this the reprints
the following statement from the Western Conservation and
Forestry association which shows what the absence of forest
fires means to this country.
You believe in fostering industries that make the Pacific
northwest prosperous Your business benefits from good times
from money in circulation from good markets for crops
chandse labor and commercial professional service The
larger the industry the the community depends upon it
and suffers from it's destruction
Bu do know how important forest industry is
you just how serious anything is that like forest fires Grip
piles it or threatens its permanence?
1.-the annual lumber of Washington Oregon Idaho and
Montana is about s00OOOOOOO feet 1t would load 5OO
600 at 10000 feet EACH Coupled together they would
make train 1888 miles long 1t would make foot sidewalk
OF inch boards from the earth to the 6foot walk with
handra In 2nch panks it would pave 3Ofoot roadway
around the earth at the equator.
Manufacturing forest products employ 10000 these
four states than half their industrial population It's
annual payroll of $5O0O000 would make stack of silver dol
lars 125 miles high The total paid the community for
dollar bills, nearly wotrds around the world make
five bills wide from Seattle to New York 1t greatest
source of community wealth and you share it.
But the best to realize the necessity of protecting
forests and forest industry compare the price received
these forest products mostly sold elsewhere bring
side into local circulation 1t is about $14OOOOOOO
year. nearly 100000 day. than get from wheat
WOOL fruit, dairying and fisheries combined.
Ihis tremendous is growing 1t will always con
tnue if protect and replace the forests that produce it.
Every forest fire reduces it.
Forests large part of axes-SO per cent some
counties single fire in Oregon has 1925 100000
taxes the burned timber would otherwise have paid
Every fire means higher taxes other property.
Our schools depend largely upon sateown-
ed forest lands.
Forest fires have of lives in the Pacific north