Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-10 | Page 11 | [Illegible] by Forest Fires Very Small

-1AGE BY FOREST 1 FIRES VERY SMALL Liie City Suffers Most Because of vnry Done to Wasatch Range J Watershed. ' :.:h the season wa? one of the j -"w re:ord. a total of thirty-six ' is the Wa?at'.'h naiionul forest past sea?on -aus.,.l a damage r .:ti more than S a.'ording to fire report eoni('ileii bv -K -""ri?. Siioervior of tiio VasnTh :si wrest. The eutt of fighting :Vfj is moderate. eonilorin the 3 :i. Toe total esport -iitr.ro by th service was about ?S00. more rJf of wbieh was expen'icd on r? ian-ls inside the forest reserve ;!?3dj; principally ttf tfait Lake Hrri--iT iire5i burning over an aroa a 're, were fought' by the er- nA altogether cai;?e'1 a los of -: o: only 10.000 feet, or about and in a-J-litiou about $17-j ': or reproducEiun was 'ietroved. Lowever, s diffii'ult to e-xpress "jol fibres, a pracrieallv all the ! '.'.'".irre.t on the Salt Lkke City 'J';:?d ami the citv was the ehipf '-. The reasons for the extensive lb;? area, according to the - iSi'prs, are th fa-'ts" that it is Vei by livestock, thus affording -t 2tO"tVt h of unused forage; also ii crowed by a railroad whose -set frequ?nt fires bv throw--. .f n-arbs. and that it is subjpet to ';i''fiis hv picnickers, camper?, who are frequentlv care- -rh fire. - '-a';p of the thirty-sis fire? are s? follows: Railroad, 35; camp- ! ":-h biiraing, 4: incendiary, 2; ; 1; unknown. 8. Seveu- The fires burned over Ipsh than and of the total area of the "'about one acre in 270 was burned