The whole of the Whiteside Cover country has been ablaze during the last of last week and the first of this, entailing thousands of dollars’ loss in timberlands, according to reports coming in from the upper Jackson County country.
The fire is said to have been of incendiary origin, and undoubtedly was as it broke out at three distinct places several miles apart, and raged on both sides of the Chatooga River. One fire started near the Zeb Alley place, another on Little Terrapin, and another near Greenland Creek.
A large portion of the lands affected are the property of M. Buchanan, V.A. Rexford and others. Large forces, augmented by the government foresters of the Nantahala National Forest, have been combatting the flames since Friday, and now have them under control.
The burned area is heavily timbered and sparsely settled, being one of the great forests of the county. The prolonged drought had dried out the land and the streams contained little water, giving the fire every advantage to gain headway.
From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., Wednesday, September 23, 1925
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