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Show MANTI NATIONAL FOREST NOTES District Forester R. H. Rutledge from the Ogden office and Roy Head-ley, Head-ley, chief of operation from the Washington Wash-ington office, spent' eight days, September Sep-tember 27 to October 4, looking over Districts 3, 4, 5, and 6 of Manti Forest. For-est. The Ranger from District 2 also met the party at the Experiment Station Sta-tion and came in for the discussion of time analysis made of the rangers' diaries. The visiting officers spent seven days on the Forest and although al-though two snowstorms occurred during dur-ing the period they had a very pleasant pleas-ant trip. They left October 5 for Puffer Lake to attend the joint ranger meeting to be held this week at that place. Fire Prevention Week occurs October Octo-ber 5 to 11, 1924. During this week the question of care with fire in and around the homes will be stressed in" schools, churches, and by the newspapers news-papers throughout the United States. $379,900,000 is the price the people of the United States pay each year for their carelessness with fire. The total loss is over $506,000,000 annually; an-nually; of this amount it is estimated that the $379,900,000 is preventable. Carelessness with matches and cigarettes cigar-ettes is responsible for much of the damage. In addition to the losses above referred to, the losses from Forest fires are extremely heavy. During Dur-ing the past season out of the total of eight fires occurring on the Manti Forest four are known to have been started by discarded cigarettes, three from lightning, and one from bursh burning. If people would only remember re-member that it is cheaper to prevent fires than to put them out, that fires waste lives,- health, and wealth, they would perhaps be more careful with lighted matches, and cigarettes. They would also clean up rubbish, repair defective chimneys, and correct other hazards. The time to do this work is now and not wait until after the fire occurs. On October 4, Deputy Supervisor Van Boskirk returned from the bug work on the Kaibab Forest. Mr. Van Boskirk reports having spent a busy and interesting season ampng the deer and bugs on the Kaibab, however, how-ever, he expresses himself as glad to get back to the Manti. An interesting letter from Ranger Edward P. Cox has been received at the Supervisor's office. Mr. Cox is enjoying the work at the rangers' training camp on the Coconino Forest and as soon as he returns from the trip, which will be sometime about the middle of this month, we expect a full report on the last month's doings at the Southwestern Experiment Station. |