Show u Stubborn Grass Fire Scorches 1000 Acres in E Echo ho Canyon I I After Alter four tour days of bitter fightIng fight fight- fighting ing tug a brush and grass gross fire in to Echo Canyon was finally brought under control Sunday morning The flames covered about acres up the highway side of ot the canyon wall for three miles mUes and for tor some distance back on top The fire is believed to have nave started from sun SUIl rays reflected through glass lass according to o Assistant Arils Assis tant tent State Fore Forester ter Richard Klason It began too high up the wall to be a result of ot a carelessly discarded match or and there was no electrical disturbance disturb ance at the time Klason KIMon said the alternating eve eve- evening Ring lpg and morning winds compU- compU complicated t l the battle Winds blew down the canyon In to the evening leaving little islands of grass and back e next Bulldozers were operated by Moore Moor of Henefer and Joseph Jos Joa I eph Turner of ot Coalville and there i were two from lull Hill AF Twenty five ve prisoners t from f 0 Point Paint of the tM Mountain aided in inthe inthe the battle against the flames leB The fire fue at akika threatened threat ened to roar back bao Y into the Craydon Cray Cray- don doa 10 area Nine loads loads loads- of were dropped on the advancing flames from converted Navy dive bombera bomb bomb- era ore Several head bead of ot sheep owned by Fred were trapped in small box canyons and destroyed Paul deputy state forester for for- ester directed th the lire ire tight fight lIe He said the precipitous terrain made the work very difficult We could set up lines on top but it was almost impossible to run a a. aline aline line up those cliffs The road commission shops hops on the highway and the highway patrol station were saved from the flames but a a. stretch of transcontinental transcontinental trans trans- continental telephone lines was burned out A tire fire started Just above the Anderton clay pits last Tuesday night It was believed to started from lightning Ire equipment was salt call called ed from neighboring t ties es and the flames flame were extinguished extin aUls ed early t in the morning Meanwhile a lira Ire at Re sort threatened threat several boats boata parked in to flip tta area a. The I fire department soon lOOn put thus this I i alien N under control |