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Show i FIRE LOSS IN I FORESTS DROPS Total Acreage Burned This Year 15 Per Cent of 1921 Figures The total acreage burned durlnp the past ffre season in district No 4, in. which there are 26 national forest. Is 'but 15 per cent of that burned Jn 1921 'and but two per cent of the 14-year I average of fire seasons, according to an announcement made yesterday by local forest sen Ice officials. Tho amount expended to date in j I fighting the fires is but 8 per cent of the 14-year average and but 24 per Jcent of the cosfs In 1921, the officials yjjftj aald There was a total of 3TB fires in , I the forests to date which burned 880 rtytjrj 'acres. Of that number. 110 were man-made i fire which, according to the forest 'service officials, could easily have 'been prevented had the persons responsible re-sponsible for them used a little care I In putting out their fire-s when leaving leav-ing camp. Greater preparation was made th 13 jyear, according to the officials, than (in any previous year and more attention at-tention was paid to prosecuting vig jorously persons found responsible for I forest fires. This policy of prosecuting all such cases Is to be carried forward more vigorously next year, local officials tsald, In connection with, the campaign I of educating the public to use more care when using the national forests Ifor recreational purposes nn 1 |