Show FIR REINGTYGREE I Effecton Water Supply Next Summer Sum-mer Will Probably Be Serious Dancer to the city property from the brush tiro In City creek canyon has been largely averted and although men aro still watching the lire It Is not likely that any serious destruction of properly will result Last night the lire hud crept up to the top of the mountain having consumed con-sumed all the grass and brush down In tho canyon All around the powder magazine maga-zine the ground was charred and blackened black-ened but no harm resulted to the explosives explo-sives For ten Oaya the water department has had men fighting the lire The blaze vas Started ubont live miles up the canyon It Is said by some boys who were Irving to burn chickens out of the brush Since that Limo the flames hove swept down 10 and beyond the city water lank and have now receded tip the mountain side I One of the moat serious results of Iho fire will be the Injury to the canyon as a watershed With all the brush and scrub timber burned away the snow that falls next winter will melt rapidly and be carried car-ried aWay In the crook Instead of remaining re-maining in the ground uritll the hot weather On this account the water sup ply from City creek Is expected to be much smaller than It IB at present |