. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 1846 Canadian Furcstrif Journal, August, J918 was in the neii^hborhood of $('20,000: the Pearson Mill at Barnet, where Ihe destruction wrought was something like 310,000. Tlie Yarrow mills in- creased the amount by another SV2,- 000, and the Apex mills at CJoverdale by $5,000. Several thousand cords of shingle bolts were destroyed at the Campbell R'ver Lumber Company's plant at Hall's Praine and Pine Grove. Two thousand acres of lightly wooded country were swept in Columbia Valley in Cultus Lake district, ilames in this r
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 1846 Canadian Furcstrif Journal, August, J918 was in the neii^hborhood of $('20,000: the Pearson Mill at Barnet, where Ihe destruction wrought was something like 310,000. Tlie Yarrow mills in- creased the amount by another SV2,- 000, and the Apex mills at CJoverdale by $5,000. Several thousand cords of shingle bolts were destroyed at the Campbell R'ver Lumber Company's plant at Hall's Praine and Pine Grove. Two thousand acres of lightly wooded country were swept in Columbia Valley in Cultus Lake district, ilames in this region sweeping right across the international boundary. Be- tween Powell River Townsite, and Powell Lake, one of the most serious fires raged for several days, threaten- ing the mills of the Powell Lake Lumber Company and the Brooks- Bidlake Cedar Company. Here the obstacles in the path of the fire-war- dens were of an almost insurmount- able nature, but despite these, good work was done with the means at their disposal. The International Timber Company's No. 4 camp at Campbell R'ver was attacked with the result that five valuable logging engines were ruined and others had a narrow escape. It is estimated that the damage done there was approx- imately .>"^5,000. As before stated, there is scarcely a region in the whole of the province, with the exception of Kamloops, Cranbrook, where rain fell, and Nelson, but has been the victim of the flames. And this ap- p'ies also to Vancouver Island. On the latter Courtenay was one of the greatest sufferers. No less than three outbreaks were raging at one and the same time. Camp 2 of the Comox Logging and Railway Company went up in flames and smoke, the, Westholme Lumber Com- pany's plant likewise suffered, a million feet of standing timber was razed near Courtenay, and the great- est difficulty was experienced in sav- ing Mr. Berkeley Grieve's mill. These are only a few of the most serious conflagrations during the sea- son, in wh
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