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Show FOREST FIRES RAGE AT GRAND JUNCTION Flames Roaring In Big Timber Ail Around Chief City of Western Colorado. GRAND JUNCTION, Colo., Sept. 23. This eity is surrounded by forest fires tonight. The largest, ou the north side of Grand Mesa, in the Battlement national na-tional forest, is burning in big timber. Forest Supervisor vfoh.n W, Lowell has sent a crew of fifteen firefighters to Cash creek, where the fire is raging. The second fire is at the bead of Kannah creek, the source of Grand Junction's water supply, and covers many acres. A forest ranger tonight is racing over Grand Mesa for the creek and will organize a crew of firefighters tomorrow, A fire on Book Cliff mountain moun-tain can be seen from the city. It covers cov-ers a large territory, uninhabited. On Pinon mesa, to the south, a bad fire is endangering a"number of ranches in Little Park. |