Show I TELEPHONE LINES ON THE NA NAt NATIONAL t FORESTS t I Tho use of tile lie telephone hone on the gop j I forests is illustrated lu in a bui II Ii letin issued hJ i the tho local lucal of the 1 forest service hi 10 which It is staten stated that thata a town In Southern Utah with about 1 1000 Inhabitants was Isolated four fourc c days ride from the lie nearest railroad Il I I stat station Ion until a telephone line wu was built b by the tho forest service across the mountainous country countr for 01 forty miles thus connecting tIle town time the head 1 of oC the forest and several ranger cabIns with the telegraph ste ata ton From two to five ranger stations are arenow nW now connected with th office on many of the national fore S Sald ald ad h by the use uso or of li In the homes of settlers centra r located oth other r points on the th are ar reached The marked saving In Ia time timo otherwise re for or tt n trip of r front from twenty to forty Corty miles is evident On somo Ramo forests lookout have b en established to which a wire Is 18 ruin ane and a stationed in f the he vi so that he can the point or of vantage several times limes cinch day and with a glass over oyer the landscape In eVoI every direction quickly scanning an area or of two or three hun hundred hundred dred thousand acres It Is 11 by such stich plans that re patrol fire control have been on the Ule national forests with an exceedingly small pro I teethe force orce and damage from fire has been reduced to a mInimum The forestry people have performed nn an Inestimable service for the tho coun countr country tr try and he s systematic method with which its Ls are being solved attests the n ability bill t at the head of the service |