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Show tBAILEOADS TO B8BEVB THE TOEESTS filflon has trigmed a mem-greemenfr mem-greemenfr -with the Great (way company, and also Northern- Pacific Railway oh provides for co-opern-jrest service and to rail-nent rail-nent damage to the na-from na-from fires along all lines these railroads. These ,d Already ben signed by on, vice president of the rn, and Howard Elliott, tho Northern. Pacific, bo , by the signature of the igncultnre, now in force, erits "haxo in view both io tho lowest point of rom tho operation of the joint action by tho forest ne railroads, to -fight nil ay Btart along the lines, i -agree to clear and keep tamable material a strip idth, as conditions may to 200 feet beyond the and to provide all loco-do loco-do not burn o.il with Buit-resters Buit-resters and other stand- ard equipment to prevent the dropping of fire. It is also stipulated that every effort 'will be ihado by the companies to operate their locomotives so as not to cause fires. Tho protective strip is to. bo designated jointly by represnt-atives represnt-atives of tho railroad and the forest service. In fighting -fires the railroads and. the forest service . will co-operate closely. Prompt notification to forest officers of all fires discovered by employees of the railroads is provided for. Telephone Tele-phone lines to make, this possible will bo put up by tho forest service, using the companies' poles where this is desirable. de-sirable. Warning whistles will bo sounded by locomotives on occasion. Forces of fire fighters will bo assembled assem-bled on the outbreak of fires, mado up of forest officers, railroad employees and such tomporary labor as can bo gathered by either. Excopt for salaries sal-aries of regular employees tho cost of-fighting of-fighting fires which start within 200 feet of the railroads will be borne by the companios and of all others by the forost service, unless it shall bo snown in tho first case that tho railroads were not responsible, or in tho second case that thev were responsible for tho outbreak out-break of tho fire. |