Forest fires have been raging in the nearby mountains during the past week or more. During the day the sky has been partly hazed with smoke from burning debris on the mountain side, while at night great red blazes can be seen winding their slow and tortuous way across the nearby mountains. The fires are closer than they have been during the past several years. A great many acres of land have been burned over, and considerable damage has been done. The unusual dry weather of the fall has contributed largely to the continued burning blazes.
But not only near Murphy, but at other places in the county have fires been raging. The first of the week district fire warden C.I. Peterson of Asheville reported that wardens in this county had checked 10 fires, which had burned over some 500 acres of mountain land; in Haywood, there have been 12 fires covering about 2,300 acres; Clay, four fires covering 250 acres; Henderson, three fires covering 250 acres; Transylvania, three fires covering 900 acres; Polk, four fires covering 40 acres, and Madison, one fire covering 100 acres.
The fires this year are reported as being worse than last year. Some wardens claim they have been worse than they have seen in a number of years. The damage has been done to second growth principally.
From the front page of the Cherokee Scout, Murphy, N.C., Friday, November 21, 1924
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