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/-one: Prairie Argu*: Ben Brever. of Ward, and one of the county com-' iiiiHHionera. pansed through here! Monday morning enroute to NrJ Paul, doh 11 Long, of Pillabury, E ! M. Gn*eiio, of Staples, and Henry Taunt, of Hewitt, the other cum-miHtdonerri, left the name day for Si Paul, going over the Northern Pacific by wuy of Little Falls. They will interview the a ate bourd of corrections and charities In regard to a new jail for this county. They will go to Stillwater to look over the prison and will probably go to Bed Wing and other points to get;an h*ea of a plan for the new jail! here.Minneapolis Tribune: It isestimated that forest fires in the state of Washington have burn-! ed over areas that would have g yielded 40,000,000,000 feet of lumber, or enough to employthe cutting capacity of all the tsawmills in the United States n for two years. The value of the 8 trees destroyed, is placed, at a i low estimate, at $30,000,000. * We do not know whether Gen. £ Andrews has had the statisticcs • of the destruction wrought by J forest fires in Minnesota, but it | mvst have been enormous— |( sufficiently so to justify the war- t den system which is now so * effective in preventing timber t fires. i *
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Little Falls Weekly Transcript
Little Falls, Minnesota, US
Tue, Mar 20, 1900
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