. Canadian forest industries 1908. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Canada lumberman and woodworker The Miramichi Fire. The widespread devastation of Maine's forests by fire in the last lew weeks has recalled to the minds of old settlers the great Miramichi tire, which raged over vast areas of Maine and New Brunswick in 1827. That forest conflagration, the most destructive in this region's history, is known as the Miramichi fire because it started on the headwaters of the Miramichi River in the Province of New Brunswick, whence it swe
. Canadian forest industries 1908. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Canada lumberman and woodworker The Miramichi Fire. The widespread devastation of Maine's forests by fire in the last lew weeks has recalled to the minds of old settlers the great Miramichi tire, which raged over vast areas of Maine and New Brunswick in 1827. That forest conflagration, the most destructive in this region's history, is known as the Miramichi fire because it started on the headwaters of the Miramichi River in the Province of New Brunswick, whence it swept across the country to the southwestern limits of Aroostook County, Maine, devastating a tract 200 miles long and fifty miles wide, laying waste the forest growth, stripping the land of every growing and living thing. The summer of 1827 has always been known as "the dry sum- mer" in this region. No rain fell in May or June of that year, and in July only a few slight showers, so that when August came the woods and fields needed but a spark to set them aflame. Early in August the fire started on the headwaters of the Miramichi, and for six weeks it raged a tornado of smoke and flame—northwesterly across the country. After burning up the forests of western New Brunswick, the fire crossed the St. John River into Maine, and in this state its progress was even more terrific, the virgin spruce and pine falling before the ad- vancing wall of flame like so much grass. It was in that year that what is known as Maine's great and only "official bonfire" accurred at Mount Chase, in the extreme north- ern part of Penobscot County. The state land agent sent a man named Jim Chase up to the Hay brook region to burn the hay and grain stacks of some timber thieves—men who in winter used to cut vast quantities of timber on the public lands, and who in summer raised crops of grain and fodder to feed their horses and oxen in logging time. It occurred to the land agent that
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