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Show that the train may get on the move in good season. Back into the remote and heavily timbered districts in many places there is little horse feed, because the trees shade out the grass, and into such places the fire fighters often march afoot. The shovel, mattock and axe are the weapons of the man who fights forest fires. Fire extinguishers, extinguish-ers, lines of hose with good water pressure, and hook and ladder equipment are not at his disposal. He uses the shovel to throw dirt on the fire and smother it when it can be fought at close range; with the mattock he digs a trench in the earth, and frequently along the line of his trench and on the side toward the fire, he backfires. The fire, as it is first started, burns slowly, and he watches it, alert to keep it from leaping the trench. As it gathers headway it is all the time burning away from the trench, and by the time it is a raging, full grown fire it has burned a strip between it and the trench, so all is well. It can thus only burn toward the oncoming fire. When two meet they stop for laek of fuel. " "But in building this trench there may have been some fallen timber to contend with. The axe is used to cut these up so they will not extend across the trench and carry the fire from the burned area across the ranger's breastworks. If the fire is burning in light grass or weeds a heavy sack is used to whip it out, and if no Back is at hand, a green bough is a fair substitute." ! Mr. Sherman said: "I have also pulled the saddle off my horse j and used the saddle blanket to good advantage." . i HOW THEY FIGHT THE GREAT FIRES. Many who read of the battles with the forest fires during the last summer may have felt .that, though the story of the fires were completely told, there was much that might have been explained as to how the fire fighters could accomplish anything in the direction direc-tion of checking the progress of a conflagration of such tremendous j proportions. When E. A. Sherman, of the local forest headquarters, ' was called on yesterday to talk to the students of Weber Academy ho supplied the missing fragmenta of the great forest fires, when he said: "When a fire is discovered in the forest every officer within striking distance rides at once to the scene of action. The ranger travels upon such occasions prepared for action. He has his saddle horse and a packhorse, the latter loaded with his bed, a shovel, axe mattock, a few old sacks into which he has thrown a couple of frying pans, a coffee pot and a few simple cooking utensils. He also has with him flour, bacon, and a few simple substantial supplies sufficient suffi-cient to lost one man two or three weeks. Within a few hours an experienced man can usually tell whether under average conditions he can stop the fire before he reaches the limit of his strength, or if it will be necessary to send or go for help. If the latter, a crew of 25, 50 or 100 men are picked up and sent in to the scene of the fire. They are either preceded or accompanied by a pack train of 20 or 30 head of horses and mules loaded with tools, provisions, bedding, and not infrequently dynamite. An experienced packer is in charge of the train, and a good camp cook is necessary. Cooking for a crew of forty hungry men, with no kitchen range excepting a flock of Ion", handled frying pans, is interesting work, especially on the march when it is necessary to have breakfast over and everything ready to go Into tho packs and onto the mules by six in the morning, in order |