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Show BURNED FORESTS BUILD NO HOMES. Every year forest fires in the United States destroy or damage timber of sufficient amount tQ build five-story houses for the entire population pop-ulation of a city of 300,000 to 500,-000 500,-000 inhabitans. Every year forest fires destroy improved property of sufficient value to build another 1,600 such houses. Every year forest fires burn an area equivalent to a ten-mile strip reaching from New York City to Denver; and an area more than eight times the acreage of the French forests destroyed or damaged during the World War. |