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Show I SEEK TO EUHTE DANGER FROM FfBES y I Foresters Consider Methods for Prevention of Timber i Land Devastation. IL CHIEF DISCUSSES WORK p h Professor Graves Says Great h Difficulty Besets Men Fight- M ng Flames in Woods. j The big question , of forest flren and their prevention was the chief topic at hi lestorday'a session of the officials of the forest service at the Hotel Utah. The 'V discussion was led by Henry S. Graves, j f the chief of tho forest E-rvIee. f Lost night the matter of appropriations ,f In each district was taken up by Pro- k- fesjor Graves and lliv district foresters. I Thf meeting will continue through today ! and u 1:1 ha In session "gain Monday, !' closing Moridny night, The quostlou of jf fire protection Involves the appliance of .'V Kafot measures to ll'O.OOO.WO acres of ; fort-. l land. i To Prevent Fires. I Mi. Graves, in discussing the flic situa- ' tion, ald: I I While we have had many fire? dur- , : y Ing the past .summer, weather condl- . tlons have generally been in our fa- o:-t id with our fire protective or- i ganlzutlon steadily Increasing In of- $ flcleney. wo have gone through the xraHoii with comparatively small loss. However, u repetition of the weather j oadltlonR of 1010 may be upon us any y time, and we are going steadily for- ard strengthening- our protective ur- -.aiilzatlon an rapidly as possible. ' That the firp dAiigcr Is roal and I li e task a Btupcndous one. Is becorn- ! ins more and more apparent to the general public. However. In order 4 I'iat you may more clearly compre- bend Us magnitude, remove In your imagination your city to thu most rugged nud JnKcccj'atblc parts "f the rH.j Wasatch range of mountains. Imag- t ino our beautiful buildings, instead J of being of modern fireproof ronPtruc- ' n, to )s constructed of hlchly In-it In-it 'limmable nmicrhtl. and lumend of I j-tretehlng away In Ions Irregular ( 'ow, imagine them jumbled together j -n a confused mass, until your broad I tieets arc completHy choked and lin- H) payable. Kllminhtc U your waiter i dratitK and your 00,000 HiKenx. each f iif of whom, through the agency of i tho over-ready tf'lophone. Is a nolen- i fire guard, ready to turn In tho H alarm at the firm sign of fire. 1m- ( nl tie our city under these condl- ; . iio'-f. always occupying the moJt r msKcd and inaccessible mountain lanrR, extend Int: north to Canada I and -outb to Mexico, imagine an- otli.r such cltv slrotcliinir alone the 5 Pa- Kl: coast and still another, : Krallrr. however. In the Great Lakes r'jr.on. and you have a fairly accu- 1 ,-U' plctnro from which to judce of il mnnltudc of the task of protcct- Incr the national forests from fire. ; Means Arc Limited. What your clly fir department ai n3 to do. and upon which Its cf- lncv larscly dp'nds, In lj rocch f're whil6 It Is yet small. TIil. in ; first principle of sticconfully cdm- 'ihtln any fire and Is the more necc- nr- in fighting a forest firo than in t fichlin? a fire In your city, for tho j t'ason that after a forest fire in . r'.inwl only tho crudest' appliances HBV I cm be brought to your aid. What t vfi"r city flrr depart tifiit accom- BV pi .1C" Oil Wtl COllHtriirtcd Htl"pot5. BV ) rih a t-lar rlpht of way and with BBB i " e aid of auto entities, hcmicalM, BBB v Mi-iniatic alannn, etc.. the forest BB j r-irc firo fU'htoiT must endeavor BBB ,( i a mplinh wllh hore3 over vouch BBB ! xountalii traihi and very of ton mut BBB afoot. 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I I Progress in 1912. l jiing th rleld LSon just closed, BB j v bile we have made ixcol!ent twrog- i if, w hne not bett aWo tb - BB -ixuplUh fiuitti as much as wo wished BB , in the pxt".nMon of our lire protw- BB ; tlvc organlzAtlon. The uncertainty BB ; our appropriation for permanent BB ' iinprovementa this year, and Us Bfl coming to ia lata In the sc.i5on as -t did. caused our work to bo con- ! ildrrably retarded, since It Is almost B ', v. holly oiitliird to the mountains Bfl wl.err winter ets In rarly and lasts B , !at- In the spring, thu leaving a 1 ! V'- hrtrt reason at best In tvh:-h IB I n'ir nprornitnl work ir.a be t r- .' rl '1 on. 1 j! Jorc than 6? per cent of fTcat fires are. preventable; that Is. they originate, through some act of man. either accidentally, carelessly or wilfully, wil-fully, and, therefore, I ;m particularly particu-larly well pleased with the reports brought to this mooting from the alx districts of tho growth of public sentiment regarding forest lire and of th earnest desire of tho public for the efficient protection of tho national forest. Public Gives Aid. j Throughout all six districts, there l relucted evidence of this healthy growth of public sentiment; tlmsti who ue the national forests for recreation or business are more fullv ally to the da rigor of setting the wood on frrc, and thoro In an evor- Increasing demand from timber land owner, railroads and business Inler-et Inler-et of all kinds to co-operato with the forest service, In nrn protection, j Railroad xslilch run through na- ' tlonal foretR are Increaelng their efforts u reiluco to n minimum the danger from tire originating from the falling of ?jxks or live coals. Timber land ownr are ovciTwherii evlndng a greater deolre for y-tematlc y-tematlc protoetlon of their large holdings, and whre that holding! " arc either adjacent to or Intermingled Inter-mingled with national forest lurid in xuch a way aB tn mnke a common com-mon Ktem of pret-tlon advar. 'asco i.s ,i Lot'. p.irt'-. the fo' Iwri" at'd aOf 'attors of timber land owners have jelued forsi. |