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Show FIRES ON NAT-I0NALJ0RESTS NAT-I0NALJ0RESTS Washington, July 16. As the summer sum-mer progresses without heavy fire losses on tho national forests, tho forest . service Is ..having higher hopes for Bmall Are damage during 1913. Not only hap tho Are loss on national forests to date been gratlfylngly small, but conditions everywhere ev-erywhere except In the Bouthwest according ac-cording to tho officials of the forest service, are more than ordinarily favorable. fa-vorable. They point out however that the situation may change almost over night, and that a comparatively short period of general dry weather and high winds may bring disaster. The appropriations for fire fighting aro not yet large enough to insure lm munltv from hnnvv lnanon A system of telegraphic reports from the field keep the chief forester fores-ter at Washington informed as to conditions con-ditions ot the 1G3 forests under federal fed-eral supervision. During th past week general rains In tho far wes tern states, with the exception of Arizona and New Mexico, havo reduced reduc-ed tho present fire danger to minimum. mini-mum. But in tho latter two states the weather Is reported very dry, with occasional electrical storms that bring chances for fires set Dy lightning. light-ning. Four fires are burning on the Coconino forest in Arizona, and during dur-ing the past week there have been fifty-eight fires all told in the two southwestern Btates. Tho acreage burned is reported as 2,090 acres, as against only 20 acres reported burned on national forests ia all tho other westorn states. Thus far this season thero havo been 30,798 acres burned over on tho national forests on only sixteen thousandths thou-sandths of ono per cent of tho acreage acre-age which tho forests Include |