. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters), no. 35. Forests and forestry. «3 O w & O % H O Q :? 1-3 <: OQ h3 < < o 02 O o •J w ad cc O r stroyed. The workman loses his wap^es; the owner loses the wages paid and the profits; the user must so much the sooner pay a higher price for his wood because the supply is decreased; the Commonwealth at large suffers because property is destroyed; everybody concerned is made poorer, and no further wages, taxes, or use are possible. Fire causes a loas to equipment for forest operations, to live stock, to farm crops, to buildings
. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters), no. 35. Forests and forestry. «3 O w & O % H O Q :? 1-3 <: OQ h3 < < o 02 O o •J w ad cc O r stroyed. The workman loses his wap^es; the owner loses the wages paid and the profits; the user must so much the sooner pay a higher price for his wood because the supply is decreased; the Commonwealth at large suffers because property is destroyed; everybody concerned is made poorer, and no further wages, taxes, or use are possible. Fire causes a loas to equipment for forest operations, to live stock, to farm crops, to buildings and fences. Every year the timber opera- tors lose a great amount of property of various kinds by reason of forest fire. Figures on this loss are hard to obtain, but if the value of mills, engines, tools, buildings, and tram roads, completely or partly destroyed by fire were known it would greatly astonish lumbermen themselves. * The same thing is true of the to farmers and owners of property adjoining woodland. The individual loss may or may not be large in any one instance, but when such losses are totaled they soon amount to unbelievable figures. Fire in the forest catiaes the loss of homes. Not infrecpiently have forest fires furnished the soark that burned the homes and passes- sions of families living within or near the forest. Occasionally whole towns have been dangerously threatened, and in some instances com- pletely consumed. The stories of some of the fires in the Northwest are heartrending and the loss cannot all be included in a tabulated in- ventory of property destroyed. Fire causes the loss of human lives. The fire which starts from someone's brush pile or careless act may be the direct cause of snuff- ing out any number of human lives, as witness the results of many of the awfiil conflagrations in the West, in Canada, and occasionally in the East. A few years ago fires in Minnesota and Wisconsin took a large toll of human "life and will go down in
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