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Show FRIDA PAGE SEVEN campfires anywhere and drive off, leaving them burning. They even break iion the fire boxes of the rangera and carry off the tool. They may be leople of education and potdtlon at home, but in the wilda they act like morons. They hare no eenae of responsibility or manKlilp. of course all are not like this. Some are Juat too Ignorant and inefficient to know how to ad. Iiut after the forest la gone It doca not aeeiu to the exhausted to make much difference whether the man who set the fire was a cureless highbrow or a L In Carbon County end Shipped Everywhere Mined Propertiee At Standardville , Utah g fool. The story that fullows la taken from real life. Sunday, August SI. 1024. Are started in the forest of the lower San Gabriel watershed In the California Sierras. It was vainly fought for many days. It burned considerably more than fti.Oufl acres. Water canyon and Sliver mountuln were beuuty its. No Dust , No Ashes, No Clinkers, Is Unexcelled For Storage Purposes, Hard Coal Co. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH General Office Ninth Floor Kean Bldg. See Europe This Summer CSS 3 $160.00 New York to Liverpool end excursion. return, third-clas- s Ticket good one year. There were pines MO feet high. So to all Los Angeles and vicinity the name la of Andy Gonsalus anathema. For Andy Gon-salua Los Angeles baker, la the man who set the forest ablaze. Here la his story, told aa he sat In Ida home, his burned feet In huge bandages, thrss weeks after the firs: It waa ths first trip I aver mads Into th mountains. It was my first trip and I suss it to my last. I would not snjoy mountain anymore. My brother and I decided to go picnics, to the mountains, taking my wife and baby along. We went into Ban Gabriel canyon. A soldier on guard thare asked me If we wanted a campfire permit. I said no, that our lunch waa ail Bo wa found a place in a side canyon prepared. and ate lunch. After lunch I started to walk up a hill, rolling a cigarette aa I went. I struck a match and lighted It. Then I just threw the match down. And I hadnt gone fifteen feet before I heard a crackling sound behind me. I turned around and there wee a patch of fire about as big aa the top of that table, there. I lumped right Into It and tried to stamp It out. But the flames singed my troueera Bo I to my brother, who wae on top of tbie littleyelled hilL Then I ran hack to where we had lunch and grabbed my baby's blanket. When I got back to the fire the blanket waa no good. The fire had pread and waa climbing fast up the hillside. Bo .we packed up and skipped out. Hangers raptured Andy and hla brother. For five days in the county Jail Andy lived on bread and water you should hear hla description of the jail food. Then the township Judge at Asusa fined them each $250, with suspended y sentences. Andy continued: They took me out to th Bra then. I aeked th Judge to give me time to get home and put on some old clothea There plenty of old clothes out at th camp, a ranger said. Bo I had to go the way I waa. There were no old clothea at the camp and I had on my low ehoea 1 worked aome-tlmIn th burned-ove- r ground, until the toes of my low shoes were burned off. Twenty-eighours I was up there. That Is a long time after five days of nothing but bread and water. Buddenly there came a gust of wind that turned the flames right toward us. A solid wall of flam raend across the mountain and wa barely escaped. It passed around our breaker and all our work went for nothing. Then w started beck for the fire camp. I had been fighting Are about ten miles from where I had picnicked a week before. And it was seven miles back to camp. I walked, as best I oould with my burned feet, for about six miles! Then one of the rangers said: Bud, you bettet rids one of those pack mulea th rest of the way.1' s, By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN HAT should be the punishment of a person who seta a forest Are? How shall we check the appalling annual Are loss that la wasting our forests, already showing a shortage that threatens the nation T What can be done to make railroad men, lumbermen and brush-burnemore careful T What can be done to make the careless vacationist, tourist, motorist and camper realize that their playing with Are has heroine a national menace? The first question was personal with me, when . saw for the first time a dead, scarred, desolate mountain-sid- e in Colorado where once had stood a virgin forest of majestic pines and noble firs and graceful usiens. That was twenty years ago. Now all four questions confront us as a nation. Forest Arcs have grown to be a nutionnl menace. In 1022 there were 51,801 forest Area which swept over 8,104,1 SO acres of woodland and were communicated to uhont 8.0(10,000 acres of fields and farina ; total, over ll.OitO.OOO devastated acres; monetary loss, $18,678,485. The loss was greater " lotto 101, The Electric Building. PRICE, UTAH HENRY RUGGER! Attorney At Law Office In the Salvagnl Building. PRICES, UTAH. B.W. DALTON Office Attorney At Law In the Snisagni Building, PRICE, UTAH. FERDINAND ERICKS EN Attorney At Law TIT Judge Building, salt lake city, vtah. Frederick k. woods The 1924 loss presumably acta a new record, for It was a year of general drought. There was scanely a day all summer that the press did not ivjMtrt forest fires burning In some pnrt of the country, often they were burning In five or six GEORGE J. CONSTANTINE Attorney At Law Bllvagnl Bldg., Formerly Occupied By Prtn FouU. PRICE, UTAH E.- - largementa. Second Floor l.lea Commercial and Savings Bank PRICE, UTAH JE. FLYNN Lb'cnswi rmlertaker and Emhalmor WALLACE A HARMON crtajien, siul IJoriwed I'lnhalim "one 158. n Weet Rea Phono PRICE, UTAH BERT0T New and populous from destruction of great un-ntowns. Governor Smith closed do n all hunting on state lands. Governor Stlrer of New Jersey culled upon all citizens for aid In fighting liras. Governor Coz of Massncliusetta called out two of roinpiinlcR of state mllltin to save the town Connectl-furliade Florida. The governora of Vermont and all hunting on public lands, ennsylvanla. In the fall, hail thirty fires three i Many ro eil nearly 12,(KW acres, w. which thousands of acres were burned over hi Jackson and eight other Indlaun rountlea; schools were dismissed and college students drafted to fight the tire. Kentucky suffered forest losses of over and oil fields and tanks were barely $300,0(10 Minsaved. Neither Michigan nor Wisconsin nor on the and West Scenic In the nesota escaped. notPacific coast tho damage was very heavy, naof the withstanding the organised tional forest and the nutlonal parks. What may happen at any time la shown by the were nothing less long list of forest fires that the Peshtigo Includes list than calamities. Thla a million burned which In Wisconsin, 1871 fire of the cost Bvea; le and and a quarter acres loss 1881 Michigan fire, 1,000,000 acres, $2,000,000 -as dt-h- Telephone XI. . price, utah. Ambulance Service Fitzgerald Block, I4 Main Street p. widely separated state at the aame time. York lost nt leasi OJkin ncrea of her choicest forest lands In seven counties and had narrow escape! Uli paint shop into arid Home Fainting. Signs. 6W Main Street Thono 233. PRICE, UTAH. BEN BEAN ueueial Painting Contractor Phone Him. PRICE, UTAH. U.c; ,1 Cl.ml.1. loaa. Washington. 600,000 acres, U70M"0 ndUvea. Northwest-er- a the was of all worst 18 Possibly coat 400 live. Minnesota fire of 1918. Thla CONCRETE ft STUCCO 00 or leas seriously more were and 2,000 people end Oontnctore 28 towns and 18,000 were made homelesa; burned; 7,1 deor 801,111 Street completely burned wew partly villages miles. City, Utah. U. 8R Lake was 2,000 squaw burned The area h ii1' Utah. City or stroyed. $3000,000 for imlTm. Price, The relief commission fixed uponfar a aemblance of $20,000,000 and mediate relief J.W. HAMMOND permanent rehabilitation. second-growttimber. raCTMaa lands, with was ent-ovfor service figures forest causes, the Aa national aim. the fa 1921 of year that Alaska. aa follows, exclusive of the year. 1918- being the average for h sSSSKaasft causes, 38,436 (88.618); lumbering, 5088 2488 (8.008); incendiary, 4.368 (4.481); campers. 252! lightning, 6015 (4087); nUacel--i 8,770 (8,078). It unknown, '(2,002) ; norms. 2J(04 m 1923 fires covered 873014 blows his trumpet la estimated ere ill bo people SirSTwSh a lo2 if $494,965000. It wew mused 1928 of rticise his music. th. fire, wouldnt he marriages i young women many looked like the pictures in the fashion mng- - V V? w11 parenthesis tat MA11 tSPiM' its ST T.f the tremendous Increase in set Area That the forest fires are a national menace la recognised by the new McNary Clark act which on a 60410 provides for millions for basis between the states and the federal government Fire In a forest la from one viewpoint a much more serious thing than fire which destroys a city building. Money and men can replace the building In a few short months. Oaks and pines 200 years old cannot be replaced except through the slow nnd ordered processes of nature. Moreover, a forest fire upsets most lamentably the balance of nature and causes successive and cumulative losses. A forested hillside plays many parts. In a heavy rainstorm the trees and forest floor retard the downward rash of the water, conveying It gradually Into the spring and ultimately Into the at reams. Thus the forest regulates the water supply, preventing floods and droughts. After fire lias destroyed the forest the rain falls directly on the bare ground, carrying off the fertile surface soil. In time the rain will erode the soil so that it Is worthless, In addition to cutting gullies and ravines. Then there are both floods and droughts. Silt chokes up the streams. So the damage by fire la by no means confined to the burned area. A forest Are may thus imperil the water supply of a distant city; lessen the flow of an Irrigation project; cause widespread damages by flood; and set dredges at work In a fire-fighti- In 1023. Attorney At Law PRICE, UTAH mice. Electric Building f jQfdcr the fins by man. Note by camjieral ' 90-da- ea X forest-fire-bug- y end excursion return, third-daticket. Good returnable one year from date of Bale. n $160.00 New York to' Liverpool end Ticket good return, third-de- n. on year. c 3 H. C. SMITH, ?Agent County Clerki Office, Price, Utah United States Fuel Go. Mines At Mohr land. Blech Hawk, Hiawatha end Heiner Producing the Famous KING BLACK HAWK HIAWATHA and PANTHER COALS Handled In Pries By C.H. Steienson Lumber Co. ht le stream. And oh, the pity of It I Where was mice a thing of beauty nnd a Joy forever la now desolation a dead place, without bird or beast nr flower. What should he done In punishment to the man wlio acts the fire? Theoretically, the motive Is to be considered. The incendiary. It would seem, should be Imprisoned for life where he might never again see a tree or breathe the air of the The merely careless presumably must lie treated more leniently. But surely a nominal fine Is no fit punishment E. A. Shernmn, associate forester of the United States forest service, baa Just made an Inquiry Into the cause of the disastrous fires of the season on the 1uciflc coast He thinks that the time is not far off when careless campers or other persona who inadvertently cause forest fires either through leaving camp Urea burning or by tossing sslde lighted matches or cigarettes. will be classed as Incendiaries or pyromanl-ac- s and will be treated the earns as If they had knowingly set the Urea. I believe that existing penalties under federal statutes are severe enough properly to punish such offenders," Mr. Sherman declared. "It la more n question of Jndgea affixing adequate penalties. Federal statutes now provide a maximum penalty s of two years In the penitentiary for or n $5,000 fine, or both. The Intent to start n forest Are need not necessarily be proved. In my opinion, an I believe that carelessness la as great a crime In thla connection as a permedltateQ act" The truth Is that the outing manners of the American people are atrociously bad-u- n believably of wlldflowera by bad. They pull up flivver-load-s the roots, hack down trees. Utter up the country-aid- e and pollute the water. And with more than 17000,000 automobiles running around they make some mesa. Even the hospitable West, which far the beginning gave the motorists the true western quarwelcome, la lndlned to establish a shot-gu-a antine and herd them Into the auto campa where the police can watch them. As to die and forest fine, they are as carefree aa an Eskimo on an Iceberg. They handle matches, pipe a, cigarettes and cigars aa If the tinder-drforest floor were a cement sidewalk. They kindle $160.00 New York to Liverpool , did. Back in the camp the boss of the crew asked me from where I came. I told him I waa raised In Kentucky, end had been In California only a year and a half. Th woods of th East art different. They don't explode if you drop a match. Bo I started hack to Asusa and discovered that I was broke. I had lost the change out of my pocketa, A real eetate man there named I Caad loaned me a dollar ao I could take the car to Loe Angeles and get home The boys at the bakery where I work took up a collection and paid my fine. X am getting a loan secured by wages so I can pay them all back. The boys knew that I had the wife and baby to support. 1 didn't know what would have happened to us If they hadn't raised that money. Now, It la evident from thla true story that Andy Gonsalus la g decent young fellow, entirely Innocent in motive and sincerely sorry. Juat careless with a match, that's Bill Just the same, the forest la gone, n wilderness beauty spot la a desolation, wild animal life has been driven oat And when the winter rains descend upon the hills, tha river, heavy with eroded gull, may swoop down In flood upon the 8 an Gabriel valley. Andy Gonsalus has learned his lesson. Never again will he throw a lighted match on the forest floor. May everyone who reads his story profit by It For many must realize that but for the grace of God they might have stood In Andy Gonaalns burned shoes. , Here are fire rules for the woods; Bold your match uatll you are aura It to out. Cover pipe aahea and eigsr and cigarette stubs with earth and stamp it down. Build your campfire la th open. Remove all trash from around It. Small Bra for cooking; larger fir for warmth and cheer. Watch your sparks Upon leaving your campfire even for s abort time put It out with wator and oorer It with earth. In cess of fir, try to put it out. If you eun't, get word to park or forest ranger. Minutes count Seven per cent first mortgage bond aecured by business end other income producing proper- ty in Utah. Denominations $100.00 to $1000.00. All kind of insurance. Real estate some real bargain! In fanes near G. E. NELMS, Mgr. 321 Electric Bldg. Phone 354 PRICE, UTAH Idinas end ships from th famous Union Pacific bituminous veins of Pleannt Valley In ths Carbon district Nona better for stove, range, gratae furnace or manufacturing plant Ths equal of any end superior to many for atorage. Once tried always instated upon. Got prices from ths general offices and sales agency, Walker Bank Building, Salt Lake City, Utah Complete lino blank books. The Bun. |