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Show i RANCHES NEAR ASHTON ON ORE Forest Flames Have Swept Into the Dry Grass Country, Destroying Property of Farmers Fire Continues to Spread and Supervisor Super-visor Banactt Sends a Discouraging Report. j railway Saturday night, having covered cov-ered the distance In lss than two days, actual riding. They would have arr.ved In Ogden yesterday, lut had to remain in Marysvalo until the train was ready to start fox the north. 1 These men, says Mr. Sherman, are j made of the stuff that makes lire I fighters, and he Is not worrying over what tho results of tblr efforts will be when the final account la sent in. Tho boys will be dlspatohed to Missoula Mis-soula this afternoon and they will be at work near the Salmon forest tomorrow to-morrow evening. Mace and Brown stated that they are anxious to get Into the fire zone and help the other foresters do the work. They also say that if they make as rap,d progress in fighting against the spread of the lire in the north as they did in annihilating distance be-tween be-tween Good Springs, In northern Arizona, Ari-zona, and Marysvale. Plu'e county, there will be something doing when thev get at it. When they left their ranch, a telegram was sent to Mr. Sherman that they were on their way, but the arrived In Mr. Sherman's ofTlce before the telegram d;d They beat the telegraph with cow ponies Letters from Fish Creek, Montana, and from Sainton, Idaho, recrived at headquarters here this morning, bring good news, and Mr. Sherman is more than pleased to know that his men have been doing effectual service. While the letter from the Ixilo national na-tional forest Indicates that the fires have not all been exllnuished. It is certain that they j.ro undf r reasonable reason-able control and that there need I.' no further apprehension regarding the outcome. The first report from representatives representa-tives of district No. 1. who are fighting fight-ing fires of the Salmon section, was received bv Mr. Sherman this morning morn-ing and the news is certainly encouraging. encour-aging. The work of tho Pghters is not over, but the heaviest struggle with tho flames is thought to have ended. District Forester A. K Sherman has received the following mcssc.ro from Supervisor Barrett in charge of the flre-Qghters lu the Targhco forest east of Ajihton, ldah.0, at tho entrance sto the "Yellowstone Park: "Two hundred men now at Targhee-fire. Targhee-fire. The Are that has threatened Island Isl-and park is under control. The Are. going towards Shotgun has burned to Howard ranch, and has probably burned KIshop by this time. I am leaving" for the lire. "White at Ash ton reports high wind from the south. Iooks bad. Fifty men and supplies have started from Ashton for the PaJlsade Are. No report re-port from Palisade fire." The report of the destruction of the Howard ranch means that the fire is sweeping through the valley, fed by the dry grass, and that many farm houses are threatened with destruction. destruc-tion. More rangers are arriving at headquarters head-quarters in Ogden and ace being sent north to Idaho and Montana Hres. Two of these forest service fire fighters made 225 miles horseback in two days, racing from the Kaibab forest of southern Utah to Marysvale, where where they entrained for Ogden, Sunday. Sun-day. Communications received from the men on the line of the great fires in the Salmon ani other forests of the northern country this morning has afforded af-forded considerable encouragement to District Forester Sherman, and he feels that the worst Is over The report re-port from Supervisor David Harnett of the Targhee forest. Imweve-, Is jo i-o encouraging. but Mr Sherman's confidence con-fidence in Uarnett'H ability as u general gen-eral and a fire fighter cause.; him to believe that the Targhee fire will soon he controlled This morning Mr. Sherma.i s-tated that he called for fifty-five firefighters, firefight-ers, when the call from Washington aked for only fifty. He thought some of the bojs would fail to make connections con-nections and that U would be well to make an order for fifty-five and make it certain that he would have enough to fill the order; but he now thinks that fifty-five men will be on the Jib before tomorrow night. Every forest hi; been heard from, except Ashley and Dixie, a long way off. and Mr. Sherman fully expects t hear from thetn todav. He had no thought that the Kaibab men could get Into the field, hut he was happily surprlvd this morning whm Frank Brown nnd Charles Mace of the Kaibab marched into his office and reported ready for duty These men received word Thursday at noon that they were wanted at Mis- j soula to fight fire and that they should . report at headquarters at Ogden In-stanter. In-stanter. They had 22." miles before them overland and about 40o miles by rail Thev saddled their ponies and started on the Journey, determined not to be the last on the fighting 1 ground. A part of the 22 j miles was covered by horseback, the balance by means of a buckboard, and they alighted alight-ed from their horses at Marvsvnle. the southern terminus of the Rio Grande |