Show TIMBER PRESERVED BY PROMPT ACTION AGAINST FIRE Forester Prevents Spread of Many Blazes Started by Lightning PINE IS' IS PLENTIFUL three Thirty fires cre re started st by a single Ingle thunderstorm on trio trie forest for tor- est cst last summer and nil but u three r extinguished before material damage was wa done Thirty one ne of the tho one fifty fires which occurred on tho the Salmon forest last season sea sea- 1 son Kon on were accurately located and reported report report- ed cd b by the tho patrolmen located at tt the tho Ml MI Raldy Baldy lookout six aIx miles southwest of oC Salmon CIl City The Salmon forest Is to have n a trunk lino for tor Its telephone extending down the thc Salmon river from Salmon CIt City a dl distance of five fifty mile miles Al Already Already Al- Al ready It Is hI completed to Northfork twenty four miles with poles set let to Indianola In- In twelve miles farther tarther Tho lino line will Include two forty miles of oC polo and for tor thirteen miles tho the wire will bo be strung on trees The last report upon n n ro nn and heul unreserved ed c lands I In the g United States Statu gives a total of oC acres Df of C which acres acres In Alaska are Rainfall Light During March larch there were but four tour cloudy aoudy days and anel the precipitation WAS wl only 23 3 of oC an nn Inch at Halle Idaho Tho The total snowfall for tho the season leason was only Iy 19 4 o Inches as ns compared with tho the N I average for tho past five o seasons of oC 8 inches A total tot of she sheep p and 6 00 cattle catlie cat- cat I lie Uc will be bc grazed on tho the Sawtooth forest for for- est tat th the coming season the tho nUm number r of rattle being an nn Increase of about I head hend Of predatory animals killed by forest officers in the fiscal year ar I 1914 1911 were Killed In Utah which led lcd ledell ledill ill ell the states and noel in Idaho which K sas fourth in rank The Tho bureau of oC animal Industry of or the department of ot n agriculture Is seeking a n tract of suitable r n range e within and ad- ad ad adjacent dI d- d I jacent rt to 10 some om national m forest In tho rho Rocky Rock mountain rc region on for use In tho the development de of a n distinctly American I breed of or sheep which will be adapted to Western range conditions Le Leasing Allowed B By a recent t 13 law law- lawa w a Rite site of ot fh fete e acres or less lees can n be leased ll In nn any national forest for n a term of oC thirty years earB for tor forthe tho the purpose of oC constructing thereon a a summer 1 home ome store or other r similar structure rn provided such I lease w will Hn not I Interfere with homesteading I II The planting of trees Is I J planned l 11 ii t the he central forest service district work to begin Ma May 1 L Yellow Yellowpine Yellowpine pine stock will be used for ilS acres Douglas fir for or and Austrian pine lodge pole pine and amI blue spruce on C 6 60 acres Following surveys SUr and estimates In th theo tho field fIld foresters and drar draftsmen In the O Ogden office have ha completed maps and reports on seven large sale chances Three are arc mainly tic tie propositions on the upp upper r tributaries of Green river Y Wyoming tor forest t Blacks Black's fork fori near anston i Wasatch and the tho eastern T lr h e forest adjoining t the tho western boundary of ot the Yellowstone larl About Jackson lake on the Teton south of oC the park parle material for tor ties pulp anI and saw Y timber abounds on the river 10 watershed of or the Weiser tho the three forks of tho the Payette river of oC the Payette forest orest and Goose creek tear near Meadows Idaho Idaho forest the chances chance are 10 saw MW mill maul propositions In good timber limber mainly yellow pine |