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Show Fire Sweeps Wooded Slopes Of Wah Wah Mountain Range Despite the valiant fighting of CCC boys from Milford DG-35 camp,' reinforced from other camps of southern Utah, six to eight square miles of wooded land some 5 miles west of Milford lies completely com-pletely denuded of trees and vegetation vege-tation as the result of fire which has raged in that vicinity all during dur-ing the past week. Starting on the west slope of Wah Wah ridge and in the canyon north of what is known as Pine Grove, the fire quickly swept to the summit of the ridge and half way down into Wah Wah valley before much was able to be done in the way of checking its progress, the strong winds that have prevailed and lack of ordinary fire-fighting advantages that exist under other circumstances, making the fight a discouraging one. The section is steep, rough and dangerous with even drinking water not available except it be hauled from long distances. dis-tances. Several of the boys engaged en-gaged in fighting the fire have suffered minor burns while others have been injured by falls from cliffs and ledges. While the timber in this vicinity i has not been considered of great' value for sawing purposes, being be-ing rather inaccessible, there is considerable yellow pine that will measure up to five feet in diameter, diame-ter, while the cedar growths at the lower elevations have been considered consid-ered as very valuable for post-cutting purposes. In addition to the local CCC men who have turned out in full force, there have been 40 men each from the Cedar City and Kanosh division of grazing camps, while 40 more from the Antelope Springs camp west of Delta are reported to be en route. The fire was first reported Friday Fri-day of last week and the local camp immediately got into action. I While those in charge of the inves- tigation of the origin of the fire are not giving out any information for publication, suspicion appears to point strongly to two or more Iron county men who set fire to underbrush because it tore more or less wool from their sheep. The area burned during the past week is part of what was formerly former-ly public domain land but now comes under the supervision of the new grazing division of the department depart-ment of the interior in accordance with provisions of the Taylor grazing graz-ing act. Incidentally, with intensive intens-ive development and improvement of public domain lands steadily progressing and a vast new interest in-terest being taken under the new setup, it is likely to go hard with , anyone guilty of undoing what the I department is trying to accom- plish. |