Show FIRES COMING CONTROL REPORTS GENERALLY LEND encouragement COURA GEMENT TRENCH WORK NEEDED half A million dollars has been spent elgh fighting ting fires outside the national forests Fi rests acres burned over missoula soula mont favorable weather in most ot of the force areas of 0 the washington montaria idaho district resulted in marked advances in checking the flames which have been eating through valuable timber for or several weeks according to reports to forestry headquarters the most menacing tire fire now burning Is on the clearwater forest where each gust of wind scatters the flames and starts innumerable spot tires fires four of 0 the largest ires fires on the kanitsu reserve now are under control but it will require an additional hundred miles ot of trench to hold the flames on that forest crews on the pend oreille reserve reported good progress although as ag in the Kanik kanitsu su much trench work Is needed fires on the flathead were held with the exception ot of the conflagration fla ration at woodward lake several of the fires in the flathead are reported to be dying out one new tire fire on the kootenai Koo tenal and three on the coeur dalene forests were reported |