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National Geographic : 1912 Jul
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A TYPICAL VIRGIN FOREST IN WASHINGTON UNTOUCHED BY FIRE The principal tree is Douglas fir, three to eight feet in diameter and 200 to 250 feet high. Forest fires have done but little serious damage. Trees of all ages grow mingled together. less proportions were burning through .out that region, and it is probable that but little effort was made to extinguish "them. Early in the afternoon of Octo ber 7 the various smaller fires began to sweep together and formed a single fire ,of enormous proportions. Within nine hours the fire had burned over a strip of forest 80 miles long and 25 miles wide, destroying every living thing in its path. One hundred and sixty persons perished and nearly I,ooo head of stock. Five hundred and ninety buildings were burned and a number of towns were destroyed, including New castle, Chatham, and Douglastown. It is
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