Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-08-20 | Page 1 | Yosemite National Park is Threatened

tY NATIONAL i PARK IS THREATENED Forest irs Fires Arc Ar Raging in i ft the t t r Valley and Damage Already Amounts to of Dollars United states 1 Soldiers fighting the flames i 1 PIERCED Cal Aug Ang 20 A A destructive forest fir fire is raO raging ng in the mountains around 1 valley in iq I m. m ll county north of Y Yosemite te national park Jark al and d around Lake I Eleanor The rho fire firc which started two to or three I 1 1 days ago has grown to such serious ou proportions that tha t Malor MaS Ma'S Ma Ma- aJ a J lor jor Benson in ill III command of ot the United States troops stationed sta sta- ta- ta S J in Y Yosemite park has gone to the scene with two yO vo t J troops of cavalry The rhe soldiers are now fighting the s. s A large area has been burned over and and the damage done clone donet S t 4 has already amounted to thousands of dollars IA I A A. party of San Sau Francisco Fracisco supervisors en route to t tile Hetchy Hetch-Hetchy valley to inspect the source o of the r new water supply for that city left Y Yosemite today bu t may be unable to get into the Hetch Hetchy valley owin I 11 to the fire