Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-09-22 | Page 38 | Steady Rain Aids Firefighters in Southern Idaho

I I I I Steady n Kain in Aids Firefighters In Southern Id Idaho aho BOISE Sept 21 1 AP RaIn P Rain that spread spread all over southern Idal Idaho o and Into I northern Idaho last night and today brought JO Joy to forest fire firefighting firefighting fighting cr crews ws S Though the rain was not heavy Y it fl dampened verdure to an extent that relieved the hazard somewhat hat and assisted sonic some in quelling fires that the rain marked ed the end of ot the hazardous season was expressed by I. I II l. l Nash asli state land Jand commissioner who declared declared- this h had d been tho the worst f season enson since Ince 1919 when hen the the first swept across the panhandle an and Into Washington and Montana l claiming 50 lives and destroying vast slot of timber Most of oC the fires s were in sections swept pt b by the ten years eals ago no with the tho result that tho the loss loss' was not as heavy a as ns formerly he said