Deseret Evening News | 1904-08-08 | Page 7 | Forest Fires in Washington

Fives Fires la tit toll Portland Or Aug Alg 7 tim her ber Is on fire firo back of Oak Point lIsh eight miles mallen distant from rota tho the Columbia liver In a tract of or acres neres Three hundred men have havo been fighting lighting for tor or two days and the tho last re 10 report report port rOrt received toni from there last lut night In Indicates that the fire Is not under con comi control Tho The timber limber threatened belongs helon to the Benson Jonson lagging Logging Timber company II and Immediately buck back of ot It lie the tho Im monso holdings of or the this company of St Paul Poul Miami Minn It If tho the lire fire gets away n train from tho tk loggers now fighting It the tho whole timber tract truet Is h likely to burn hurll burnAll burnAll All western wC tem nail southern Oregon Is IN suffering more or lets leks lek from tho the of ot forest oret fires The Tho biggest In south southern ern era Oregon Is la between and Gold Hili In Iii Josephine county almost on the Ih Josephine county line This Thill Is back In iii the Iho hills and little Is known knowlI of ot Its It extent