Deseret Evening News | 1900-08-03 | Page 7 | Our Neighbors

OURN OUR N 0 IDAHO IDA hInging In COli Count lit Idaho Aug u IFor the put past two destructive forest ft fires been een raging racing on government tim bet r landl In the vicinity of Collins Collin In county AI ready about sixty ac acres of very Ibis tImber hn have b been n consumed but what of Ularm h is thai UI the dam lames are In nj near Dear the extensive timber selections o the State SIt O C U B special for the State Stat bo rd has hAl on continuously since the breaking out ol of the Ire fir with a force torce of twentythree In and his lest report to 10 C E Atney of dated wat a little more en that the danger hd had been o ome lit In two quarters Th Tb States SIte timber I Is among Hl the In the Rock Rocky mountains and Sic Sec Secretary Arney I Ii now on hi his way to Moscow and nd Wallice to 10 conduct the Wt sale ot of sonic lar large parcels Ia The Th trees ire are unusually will a afford from five to 10 In cute and the estimated Ie alue to the Stat Is Ii 11 0 ur thou thousand and feet for and aul HIs per thousand for white phi ph At figures not lees tan nera of ofa a million dollars dolla will be to o the Stats State out of the sale Mt and with so much at stake there ther is II ot course inline alarm over the bIg Ore fire