Fred B. Merrill, district forester, reports as follows from Lenoir:
The great deficiency in rainfall during the month of July not only worked havoc with the farm crops and city water supplies, but it resulted in far more forest fires in District Two than have been known to occur in that month since the State Division of Forestry has been in operation. The Burke and Caldwell Wardens handled seven fires each, and the McDowell and Rutherford Wardens three each. These 20 fires burned over a total of 2,326 acres and caused a damage estimated at $7,121. Six of the fires were caused by lightning, the other causes being brush burning, lumbering, smoking, and miscellaneous causes.
The Caldwell Wardens once more had the best record in handling fires by holding their seven to a total of 73 acres burned. McDowell Wardens were handicapped by the fact that the county appropriation for forest protection was exhausted and the Wardens were unable to get help to stop the fires until they had burned a total of 1,360 acres. Burke County had 727 acres burned and Rutherford 166 acres. Avery, Wilkes and Yancey Wardens reported no fires.
From page 2 of The Forest City Courier, Thursday, Aug. 20, 1925.
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