. Conservation. Forests and forestry. AT THE CHISHOLM FIRE After It Was Too Late to Accomplish Anything, a Few of the Citizens Made an Effort to Fight the Fire with a Water'cart and a Two-inch Hose It will be noted that fire reports were received on 150,000,000 acres in 1907 against 97,000,000 in 1906. The in- crease is accounted for by the addition of 53,000,000 acres to the total area of national forests in the year 1906. The 1907 figures are further misleading in that they show the burning over of 212,850 acres by "forest fires," whereas, in this acreage are included three fires o
. Conservation. Forests and forestry. AT THE CHISHOLM FIRE After It Was Too Late to Accomplish Anything, a Few of the Citizens Made an Effort to Fight the Fire with a Water'cart and a Two-inch Hose It will be noted that fire reports were received on 150,000,000 acres in 1907 against 97,000,000 in 1906. The in- crease is accounted for by the addition of 53,000,000 acres to the total area of national forests in the year 1906. The 1907 figures are further misleading in that they show the burning over of 212,850 acres by "forest fires," whereas, in this acreage are included three fires on grass lands on the Dismal River For- est in Nebraska, the Garden City Forest in Kansas, and the Wichita Forest in Oklahoma. After eliminating these fires, which were confined altogether to grass-covered areas of an aggregate of 103,440 acres, it will be seen that the actual acreage of average forest land burned over was only 109,410 acres. It will be seen thus that the forest land burned over in 1907 was over 400,000 acres less in area than in 1906, although, meanwhile the national forest area had been increased by 53,000,000 acres. By its system of fire patrol, the For- est Service has reduced the burned-over area on national forests from sixty-six one-hundredths of one per cent, in 1904, to sixteen one-hundredths of one per cent, in 1905, then to twelve one-hun- dreths of one per cent, in 1906, and to 628 seven one-hundredths of one per cent, in 1907. Upon the basis of the Forest Service's experience on national for- ests 'on which the total administration cost per acre, including fire patrol, amounts to only i cent, the forest area of the entire United States could be pa- trolled and protected from fire at a total cost of less than $3,000,000. This would save an annual loss on timber alone of close to $20,000,000 per year, to say nothing of the prevention of loss and damage of all other kinds caused directly by forest fires. «< «? &' Fire Protection a Business Pro
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