Show a f DANGEROUS BRUSH USH FIRES FIREST T HE BINGHAM CANYON Co YON brush THE I fire which was smothered red with the greatest difficulty even en though ample facilities for fighting lighting the fire were at hand should serve as a warn warning warnIng warnIng ing to campers contractors and others who build tires fires in the canyons at this season ea on of the year yeal Prom Front now until the first fall of or snow the grass the timber Umber in the canyons will be as dry as u tinder tip del The ThO Th slightest spark may start a blaz blaze pregnant with possibilities of or disaster Nearly all the mining camps C in Utah are built In narrow canyons canons Wood WooLf enters almost entirely Into the con cons construction of the buildings which aru are generally as close together as they the can be placed The fires at Path Park City and at Mercur have demonstrated the possibilities of mining camp blazes b azes Neither of these theBe fires was caused by byan byan byan an outbreak In grass or timber Umber but they show the necessity for extreme care eare Nor does the only danger con consist to mining camps and dwellings in inthe Inthe Inthe the canyons Last year eor there were several bad brush fires fire In City Creek Creak canyon These fires destroyed great areas of undergrowth and small trees The result has hu been apparent in the rapidity with which the winter snows have in City Creek can canyon c n nyon yon Undergrowth and timber holds back snow when it falls taUs and uses It to bank high against the summer season se on onIt It also a so protects the snow from tom the sun sunshine sunshine shine and prevents It from The surest sources of ot water supply in inthe Inthe inthe the mountain country are the sources in which the timber and brush are thickest Therefore it Is necessary to protect the growth and to throw around it all the tho safeguards possible It is very easy to start a big brush fire and very cry hard to stop it after it has been fairly started Several hun hundred hundred hundred dred men worked hard for three or four hours in Bingham canyon canon before the safety point was reached It is not always alwa s possible to gather two or three hundred men In a little time Very much easier is It to prevent the fire from gaining headway When fires must b they should sh uld be watched carefully while they the burn burnand burnand and stamped out as soon as their work worl wor has been finished |