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Show Every Available Fire Fighter in Forester Sherman's District Called For Messages From Salmon Forest .and Spencer That Fires Are Raging in Valuable Timber. and check fires In their Infancy lhan to wait until the fires are under great heaciwav. when it renulres an army of men to top them. It is the hopo of the officers of the forest service here that the Spencer and Salmon fires will bo subdued before much damage Is done and they feel that j such wdll be accomplished. At midnight last night. Assistant Forester Homer E Eenn and G. (J. Hentz, of tho giazin department, left Ogden over the Oregon Short Lino for Kooskia, Idaho, headquarters for the v Stillwater forest, to take charge of the light atalnst the fire raging there. Mr. rtentz's father is the sup- S ervlsor of the Stillwater forest and both Mr. IVntz and ?.!r. Fenn are i thoroughly familiar with that section j of the country, they having spent a number of years In the forest service there. They will have charge of oiiO men in the right against the conflagration. conflagra-tion. Foiest Supervisor W. I. Pack of the Uintah national reserve, with headquarters head-quarters at Provo, with a corps of experienced ex-perienced lire fighters, pasped through the city during the night on his way to Kalltstell. Montana, where he will take charge of the campaign there. Mr. Pack and his men have had a great deal of experience in lighting forest fires and they will render the best possible service to the stricken country. Assistant Foresters Rudolph Hlffen-daeh, Hlffen-daeh, d. L Wheeler and C. P. Calvert, Cal-vert, will be dispatched from Ogden today to take up the work at Priest RUer, Idaho, where, it is said, a fierce fire Is raging. They will likely like-ly reach the seen of action eirly tomorrow and will immediately bet;1n a systematic fight to save the burning burn-ing timber, Tho fire In the Salmon district Is said to be the most extensive and destructive de-structive of any in the northwest . country- The fire now covers an area twenty miles long and eight miles wide, the great belt of timber on both sides of Bayfield Creek burning like tinder. An army of men are needed In this section, savs Mr. Sherman, and It is this particular section that will bo given especial attention. The gTeat forest fires of district No. 1 of the forest service have become so widespread and menacing as to affect af-fect the service in district 4, headquarters headquar-ters of which are aUQgden. Forester Sherman states that be is being called call-ed upon to aid in flfhtlng the flros of tho Missoula. Montana, country and that every possible effort will b put forth to do the service required, and aid in saving the country' under the bau of the terrible conflagration. A dispatch from Washington' last evening advised Mr Sherman to send every available fire fighter in bis district dis-trict to the northern section that Is boiug devastated by forest fires. To this end last night Forester Sherman Sher-man dispatched messengers over the ontiro forests of Utah, Idaho and Nevada, Ne-vada, giving the alarm of the big fire and calling in all the boys. It is anticipated an-ticipated that before nightfall today at least fifty experienced fire fighters will be on their way lo the burning country. Every man lhat can n i spared from the regular forest work of this district, says Mr. Sherman, will be detailed on the fire, fighting sendee. The men sent from the fourth district dis-trict will take charge of the work of extinguishing the fires and handle all the men in the field, engaged in the work. A number of men left on J trains last night and will bo at the fcene of action today, all others de tailed on the work will follow as soon a.s they can reach the railroads and board trains leading to Montana aDd northern Idaho. Most of the for est headquarters were reached last night by telephone or telegraph, but messengers on horseback had to be sent into the field of each particular forest to give the alarm and call the men to headquarters for Instructions as to where to go and what to do. A number of ponies galloped over the forests last night, carrying a rider with the message of fire, and before the early hours had dawned nearly every ranger aud supervisor of the national forests of three states Utah. Idaho and Nevada were advised ad-vised of the conditions and they were buckling on their fire-fighting paraphernalia. They all hastened to headquarters and at this hour aro speeding toward Montana. Mr. Shemian has fire troubles of bis own today, too. he having received a telegram from the Salmon forest that a fire has started in that section that is threatening n large tract of valuable valu-able timber, and towns skirting the forests. He ordered the supervisor of the forest to proceed immediately immediate-ly to fight the fire and spare neither money nor men to chcrk It He is in hopes that by discovering fire in Its Inception, it may be checked before serious damage is done, and before the fire cets such headwa as to render ren-der human power in its destruction almost unavailing, it is also reported re-ported that fire is raging in the Spencer. Spen-cer. Idaho, district and that the for esters and citizens are fighting with all their energy to hold it in check. It Is r ported lo Mr Sherman thn the rallrond companies are doing all in their power to save tbe forest section sec-tion from devastation and lhat they are putting every available man at work and calling into requisition trains and enclncs wherever it Is sug-tested sug-tested that they can be used. Under the direction of Mr Sherman the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line in the Spencer district dis-trict is following each train with gasoline gas-oline speeders manned by a corps of men to guaid the timber along the road a'Hinrt lire. It is considered better to hate a small force of men to traverse the railroad, followiug closely after trains lhat are throwing burning cinders in every direction, |