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Show 31500 Forest Fires In lOJfears i In tho past ten years 3500 fires which burned over BDO.000 acres wero reported on the national, for-osta for-osta of the International district &c-cofdlnj; &c-cofdlnj; to Ulstrkt Forever Il,.II. lutledK of Ogden. Of thlg n.uinber 60 pi'r cent wore miui caused nd the remainder resulted from lijfht-' nlng. It cost tho foroat acrvlcu and cooporatora nearly halt a, million dollars dol-lars to extinguish these flr.es while actual loss lu timber and forage runs woll Into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. "These flgui-cs," says the district fotestir, "when presented In ten year totals, ahow what nn enormous tribute tri-bute tho people of the Intrrmountaln west pay to man caused rorest fires since tho fires otnj'ted by lightning burned less than one-tentTT of thn to-tn to-tn area ami caused but a Ainall fraction frac-tion of the dnmnge douo by the flies started by human carelessnes. "In theellmlnntlon or reduction to the nboluto inlnlmum of this latter typo of fife the forest sun Ice will bend Its every energy. The cause of every forest flro will bo run down-by forest rangers Immediately after the flro Is controlled and whore Is likelihood like-lihood of an offender escaping, special spe-cial ofllcers will be dutallcd to col-Uct col-Uct evidence and alay with the canto can-to theend. Itcsldes these more strenuous stren-uous efforts on the legal side, we shall endeavor to educate an'd advise nil pooplu using the forests as to the forest fire danger. Prevention, after till, Is what the forest wrvlco wauls i i not prosecution." |