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Show fflWllNS 1 NEAR BMGHAM i Qj H Tho most serious Are in thc vicinity H or Dlng' am for a long time has oe u l' H raging In Noeham gulch for thc lact H ten days. It has already burned the H transformers of thc old Redwing, now H the North Utah mine, and attnckol B tho compressor. This was saved by J ffi the efforts of Daniel and Abraham Q Hcaston. '. & The fire has murnod over an area of kd five miles to the head of Markhnm fi gulch, destroying thc watershed that supplies Bingham with city water, and & burnln? the trees that save the gulch . rtU settlement from snowslldes. Three or : j four hundred people live In Markham K gulch, and It Is feared that next spring ' H snowslldes, with nothing to stop them, H may carry away their houses when WJjj winter breaks up. The fire Is now reaching Cotton- S wood and Pino canyons. II Is on tho H crest above tho latter, and fears arc BR cntertalnc'd that It will spread Into ; r; Pine canyon by noon today. Should ff It do so. It Is feared that the burning M of the numerous pine trees In the can- ' J yon will ret fire to the Copper Boy M mine managed by J. B Taylor of ' fS Salt Lake. ' |