Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-10-24 | Page 1 | Fire Loss Millions

fLlipis; Estimate of the Des- truction Caused by Fires Last Summer Washington. Oct. 24 Six billion board feei of lumber, valued at about 1 5.ouo,ciini. were destroyed In the recent re-cent forcn-t fire in the national forests in Montana and Idaho. The tlr.st rough estimate of the loss In tbe district wa? completed to. layby lay-by officials of tbe government forest tc rvlce. It shows that the heaviest losses were In two Idaho torests, the Coeur u 'Alone, where three billion board feet of timber were destroyed and more than 450,01111 ncrs burned over; and tbe Clearwater, where one billion feet were killed and 3"",ihio acres burned over. Other heavy losses we re Helena National Na-tional foreft, 5u0,000,tH''i feel; Cabinet forest. 4110.iMiO.1n1O, aud Lolo forest, rpiii.OOii.iiOu fett. How much of the fix billion feet which was either klllel or burneii in Montana and northern Idaho tan eventually be salvaged. It Is of cours.' Imiiosslble to predict. If It wer all a total loss and if Its stiimpago value val-ue were put at the average price at J which forest timber was sold last year. It would be 'he equivalent ol a money loss of about $ 1 5.Ki',ino. t It Is "be Revel that l.i-st summer's tires either burned or killed between ' one and two per cent of the total I Mand of f.-t t-l tlmtier. At the prr.. I ml rate of cu'tl.ifi from the national ft rest, six bllfton f et is equal to tw.-lve years' supply. "Jt It It !e.-i than one-sixth of a flnp: years rut In ihe entire country or enough to keep all lumber mills busy lor something some-thing under two months. i