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Show Men in the Field Are, Apprehensive Owing to Dry Conditions Washington, Aug 12 So drv have the national forosts in districts five and six, embracing Washington, Oregon, Ore-gon, California and part of Nevada, become that officials of the forest service ser-vice here are very apprehensive lest any minute may bring a telegram announcing a serious conflagration. The ordinary work of the men employed em-ployed in the forests of these districts Is being relaxed that they may concentrate con-centrate their efforts on guarding against fire. Many small fires have been reported, report-ed, but none so large that the force on hand could not take care of them. Conditions in the other forest districts dis-tricts are said to be more favorable, with fire danger less imminent. n |