Show I FOREST FIRE FInE S SEASON ASON I AT ITS HEIGHT The forest orest service organization is b isnow isnow now facing the most dangerous thIrty thirty thirty thir thIr- ty day dar period of the year year Cd from m the standpoint of fire hazard in the for for- ests The timberlands of or the tho intermountain intermountain intermountain inter- inter mountain region are now in an extremely extremely extremely ex ex- dry and inflammable condition condl condi tion and with the tho prospect of ot a stretch o of dry settled weather ahead the field force Corce of oC the service Is straining straining straining strain strain- ing every resource to keep leep down the seasons season's fire losses In this effort the operation co-operation of oC the of visitors vIsItors visitors tors to the forests Is urgently re re- quested Up to and including August 10 there have been reported to the Ogden Ogden Ogden Og Og- Og- Og den headquarters this season a total of fires occurring In the forests of tU h Nevada Southern Idaho Idah and Southwestern Wyoming Of Ot these fires 45 have been confined to areas of less ess than one-fourth one acre 84 to less than 10 acres and only 18 have haye ex exceeded exceeded this acreage or caused damage damage damage dam dam- age in excess of The total damages dam ages for Cor the season to date amount to approximately 1000 and the total to total total to- to tal cost of actual fire suppression to 1600 Last year for or the tho same period 86 fires were reported the height of the tho season season being reached between August 14 and 28 and in 1914 up to August August Aug- Aug 10 a total of fires occurred So far this season the Boise Daise forest orest leads eads in number of oC fires having reported reported reported re re- ported a total of or 15 only two ot of which which however burned over areas i in n excess of 10 acres 4 It is only necessary to mention the I recent Ont Ontario rio fire which took a t tan ll of nearly lives and caused and caused nor enor enor inous property losses to show the extreme extreme extreme ex ex- need for care with fire o on the the I part of everyone whose business or pleasure takes him into a forest |