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Show Fire "Starter' Draws $50 Fine Forest Ranger J. J. Wise of the Blacksmith Fork district of the Cache National Forest says. ''It is the time of the year when extreme ex-treme care must be practiced with fire, whether it be camp fires, cigarettes, or small boys with matches." On July 25 a smoker dropped a lighted match in dry June grass in Blacksmith Fork canyon. It re. quired seventeen men to extinguish extin-guish the fire and then not until j it had burned off 25 acres of valu. j able watershed, livestock spring , range and game -winter range. Since starting fires between the i dates of May l and October 31 in . any forest, brush, grass. Tain I stubble or hay land without a permit is in violation of the State j Fire Law. the offender was taken , before Justice of the Peace Alonzo , Savage in Hyrum, where he was fined S50. |