Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-09-13 | Page 7 | Parley's Canyon Fires Checked

PARLEY'S CAflYON FIIESJHECKED SALT LAKE, Sept. 12 Tho forest fires In Parley's cauyon which reached reach-ed alarming proportions Friday and Saturday are today reported to, bounder bo-under control. E H. Clark, supervisor of tho Wa- I oatch national forest, with headquarters headquar-ters la this city, tald this morning that tho .fires are about over and that unless hot weather set In, ac-' companled by a high wind, no further fur-ther trouble Is expected. Between 2,000 and 3,000 acres h".ve been swept by the lire fiend, anil several dozen oiimmer cottages weic In dunger of being consumed, but bard work on the part of the forest rangers, ran-gers, saved them. Tho summer homo of former Governor Gov-ernor John C. Cutler, at Birch Grov, in Parley's canyon, was destroyed bv flames Saturday aiternoon: the loss being about $1,500. Tho only other buildings destroyed wero a house and barn owned by the city.