Show FIRES WHICH DESTROY UNDERBRUSH The repeated repealed responding ot of the fire department to the call from grass fires is a reminder that grass fires tires In the past getting beyond control have haTe swept into the foothills foot foot- foothills hills destroying underbrush and marring the foothill scenery What a brush fire tire did by way of oC damage In the California Is described in an article on the big Kaweah fire tire In August last year ear when acres of oC brush was reduced to ashes When the heavy rains of at No No- November November vember 1926 occurred the north northfork northfork northfork fork of the Kaweah river rose to the highest stage that it has reached in 16 15 years while other rivers draining similar areas but unburned rose but little Practically Practically cally all of ot the rain that tell fen on the burned area quickly reached the river and with the water came all the debris and ashes and most ost of the soil and then rushed down downto to the valley In a a. black roaring torrent to obstruct tho channel and irrigation ditches and to wash washout washout washout out roads and bridges The cost of ot cleaning ditches and repairing the damage done to the roads and land will be no inconsiderable sum However the water loss Is the greatest loss to the public since itis it itis itis is absolutely dependent on water for its livelihood Continuous summer flow of the streams Is whet what Is needed If the water is held back by the brush cover of ot the hills blUs continuous stream flow Is as as- assured However when the tha water watershed shed is burned as on the he Kaweah river little water sinks In |