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Show Winds Fan Forest Fires in Gem State HIGH winds sweeping the mountains moun-tains of central Idaho have fanned several small forest fires into blazes in the Thunder Mountain region and have caused the return of tho firefighters to the scene, according ac-cording to an announcement made yesterday Xy Ralph S. Kelley, chief of the field service of the United States land office in Salt Lake. With the firefighters, expert firemen as field agents of the land offices are being sent to the firo front from Denver, Portland and San Francisco, Mr. Kelley said. A crew of seventy-five men was j recruited at Eoi.se yesterday, and j were immediately sent to the scene, i J. D. McLeod, special agent from j Denver, is now on his way to Idaho j to take charge in tho field. |