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Show I SHIS mm lead j Stands at Head of Fourth In District for Improvements HI Made During Year. 1 OGDBX, Doc 0. In no other nation-Is nation-Is al forest of the Fourth district haa ft thoro been a creator amount of Im-K Im-K provomont work cnrriod on during the m past season than in the Salmon nail na-il tional forest of Idaho, according to tho II report which has been mndo at tho J Ogdon headquarters toy Supervisor John If A. Pearson. Mir. Penrfioa is now en-fill en-fill Peered in annua dotail work at tho Fourth district headquarters. Its The construction or four projects si-if si-if multaneously ig a f eaturo of tho naff na-ff tional forest improvement work carried I on in tho Salmon f oreHt, Regarding ft I these improvements, Supervisor Pear-ill Pear-ill l son said: Ij f Tho f onr projecta to which refer- i U enco is made aro a tolophono lino, ! I a trunk trail, stock driveway, and J , flrebreak, which are among tho i I raost Important helps to flro pro- i I tection and the goneral admlnistra- jlil tion of tho forest. By good for- ; j tune all thoso wore neodod on tho lino of tho main dlvido botwoon j tho Salmon river and Big Oroek ij watersheds, from a point seven miles southwest of Salmon City to-ward to-ward the southwest. By reason of i combining all into ono "job It was possiblo to completo thoso for eigh- U teen miles with a small force of U regular employees, with the oioop- i J tion that 'bocauso of interruption ' 3 by snow the stringing of the last 1 1 flfx miles of telephone wiro will bo l delayed until spring. t i Tfiero are largo areas of Douglas fir and lodgopolo pino on each side I of this dlvido, and a flrobrcok hero - can bo uBod offoctively la pre- j venting tho crossing of any ordln- ij ary firo. As a moans of racilitat- j ing travol horseback and with pack, the trail leads directly from j Salmon, the headquarters of the forest, to tho upper Big Crook and Torner country, and will also savo two hours' time for miners i and stockmen en ronte frcm Sal- mon to tho Yellow Jncket, Throe ii Forks nnd Camas Crook countries, J ovor tho previous ronte, following the stage lino by way of Loea- j bnrg ana Leocockl Another pictnresquo and uaoful trail of tho Salmon forest Is ono . j which starts with three miles on the main continental flindo and I then practically follows the crest ) of the Bitter root mountains for Hbcty-four milos on tho northern i' houfidary of the forest. This trail follows the Carponter survey of j the stato line between Idaho and J Montana, which is tho southern 1 i "boundary of the Bitter root nation- j ul forest of Montana. 11 Another, lookout is maintained ij on tho Salmon forest nt Baldy i Mountain, or Salmon City Peak, ll which is nino miles by tblophono 1 line southweat of Salmon. At this I if point and also at Rocky Point, v which is duo north on tho Divido j trail, arc maintained instruments , ( to indicate tho exact location of a distant flro. Bach of theso Is llko j tho face of a clock, a foot and a i half in diameter placed horizon- j tally, exactly level, a foot and a half high. Tho margin of tho dial is marked with 300 degrees, instead, in-stead, of hourH, and there is but j oho hand. Each dial is placed with i "0"degree exactly north, and "by i pointing the hand toward a flro, its J exact direction from the lookout Is known, and tho point of iutersoc- tiou of tho directions from the two I stations, known to tho supervisor, 1 enables him to locate tho flro very ij closely. |