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Show iForest fire Season At Its Height The Forest Service organization Is now facing the most dangerous thirty dny period o ftho year from the stand point of fire hazard In tho forests. The tlmberlands of the lntermountnln region oro now In an extremely dry and luflamable condition, and with the prospect of n stretch of dry, settled set-tled weather ahead, tho field force of the Bervlco Is straining every rcsourco to keep down tho season's Ilro losses. In this effort the cooperation of the thousands of( visitors to tho forests Is urgently requested Up to nnd Including August 10, there have been reported to the Og den headquarters this season a total of 102 fires, occurring In tho forests of Utah, Nevada, southern Idaho nnd southwestern Wyoming. Of these fires 4 Chavo been confined to areas of less than ' ne fourth acre, S4 to less than 10 acres nnd only 18 have exceeded this acreage or caused dam-ago dam-ago In excess ct $100. The total damages for tho season to da to amount to approximately $1,000, and the total cost of actual fire suppression suppres-sion to f 1600. Last year for the same pe-lod SO fires wore reported tho height of tho season being reached betwen August 14 and 28, and In 1914, up to August 10, a total of 134 fires occurred. So far this season the Ilolsc forest leads In the number of fires, having reported report-ed a total of 1G, only 2 of which however, how-ever, burned over areas In excess of 10 acres. It Is only necessary to mention the recent Ontario Ilro which took a toll of nearly 200 Uvea and ituscd enormous enor-mous property losses to show the ex-tremo ex-tremo need for caro with fire on the part of everyone whoso business or pleasure takes him Into a forest. |