Show I I SAYS FOREST FIRE SITUATION BETTER BEITER BETTERIn In the absence of heavy winds and unforeseen complications the forest fire situation in Ida Idaho o will be well in hand within another ten days or two weeks according to Ralph S. S Kelley local chief of the public land field service who has been directing the fight in Valley coun coun- ty This statement applies only to that portion of the public domain strictly under finder the field service control Field Agents Hunt and Huffman are now holding a line twenty miles in length on the western end of the fire area around Sheep creek said Mr Kelley They report the fires to oe out In that vicinity They have however however however how how- ever just been compelled to dispatch a party a number of miles south to Caton creek creel where a blaze Is In ress From the eastern edge of the fire area on Indian and nd Sulphur creeks on the middle fork of the Salmon river I have had no report for several days but I believe that the situation is in hand Mr 11 Kelley said that through government government government gov gov- channels he has learned that the forest service has nearly men fighting fire in Montana and northern Idaho His own force In Idaho now numbers about men |