Range fires around Arbon Valley in the papers, 1948–1978
Range fires around Arbon Valley as the papers reported them from 1948 to 1978, among them a 1958 lightning fire near Crystal that flared again and reached 3,000 acres.
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Range fires around Arbon Valley as the papers reported them from 1948 to 1978, among them a 1958 lightning fire near Crystal that flared again and reached 3,000 acres.
On July 11, 1958, about 80 Pocatellans on a Chamber of Commerce farm tour heard that 76 farms held the 59,827 acres of cropland in the Arbon-Crystal district.