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Show burned over 56,4-S.S-'T. We are paying for that loss in increased prices of every foot of lumber which goes into any structure. Easily accessible ac-cessible timber is nearly gone. The farther we work back into the rough mountain country the more it costs to build and furnish a house. It pays every one of us to help prevent fires. PREVENT EI RES SAVE PROPERTY. PROPER-TY. The week beginning Sunday, May 2 2, is "Forest Fire Peveution Week." Teachers, clergymen, boy scouts and other organizations and all who have opportunity of making public addresses addres-ses are urged during that week to take every opportunity to impress upon all the supreme necessity of protecting the forests and preventing fire. The national and state forest services, ser-vices, in co-operation with private owners of large areas of timber land, maintain during the summer a very effective fire prevention service. which each year grows more efficient, effi-cient, as more trails are made, more watch towers and telephones are constructed con-structed and more airplanes put into in-to service. A really great forest fire is not controllable by man, as tremendous tre-mendous air currents are created which carry blazing torches over the heads of the fighters, starting new fires behind them. Only those who have seen a great area of burned-over land can have any conception of the resulting devastation. de-vastation. During the five years ending with 1920 the forest fires |