Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-08-06 | Page 14 | Co-Operate in Battle

' II CO-OPERATE IN BATTLE. i ! ! , ' Nation and State Will Work Together to j Conquer Forest Fires. .' ;i Special to The Tribune. OGDEX, Aug. 5. It was reported from j the Fourth district forest headquarters in i j Ogden today that the national forester i i has approved a new co-operative plan be-; be-; tween the government - service and the j ;; state of Idaho for fighting forest fires. ,; The plan so far provides only for the pro-i pro-i tectlon of the watershed of navigable streams in the vicinity of Boise. i( The agreement provides for a prorating of the expense on the ratio of ?H"ji to i be paid by the government and $1509 by j the state of Idaho. Twelve patrolmen I ; will be sent into the fire zone of Boise 1 j immediately. Reports received at the : forest headquarters here from Boise in- , dicate that minor forest fires have been discovered over an area of 720,000 acres . of state and private forest land near the : Idaho capital. j Forest fires are now being discovered j in the Boise, Ashley. Payette. Cache. Caribou, Car-ibou, Challis, Minidoka, Salmon, Saw- ! tooth, TVeiser, t'inta and Wasatch forest i of the Fourth district territory.