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Show HUNDREDS FIGHT FOREST FIRES Volunteers and Full Quota of Patrols Combat Flames in Oregon Valuable Timber Destroyed. Portland, Ore . July 20 Forest and brush fires in Oregon yesterday did vast damage, which resulted in calling call-ing out hundreds of volunteers and pressing into service the full quota of the forest patrols In several districts At Oswego, near Portland, a brush fire swept a strip two miles long and half a mile wide. It started in a planing null, and soon spread to the brush timber Prisoners from Mult-neham Mult-neham county were rushed out to relieve re-lieve the exhausted volunteers. An area fourteen miles square near i The Dalles. Ore., has been stripped Four hundred volunteers fought the' flames and brought thorn under control con-trol early tod:i Timber worth $40, 0Q0 was destroyed. |