Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-09-16
There Are at Least Eighteen Burn
ing in the State.
APPEAL TO SECY. HITCHCOCK
Gov. Richards and Orman Ask Fed.
erai Aid Little Progress Made In
Checking Fires in Colorado.

Cheyenne, Wyo, Sept. 1G.--Gov. Rich
ards has been informed by telephone
from Grand Encampment that for
many miles on the Wyoming Colorado
line north Of Pearl, Colo, a FURIOUS for
est IRE Is raging. devastating every
thlng in its path. Every effort to sub.
due the flames has been exhausted With
out effect Coy. Richards Immediately
communicated with Gov. Orman of
colorado ana arranged for both to send
leieslan 10 the secretary OF the inter-
ior asking for aid.
According TO the latest reports there
are AT least IL serious forest rires burn
ing III wyoming, to say nothing of nu-
miefous smaller ones and brush fires.
Ihere are three fires in southern Albany
county that are destroying great swaths
OF me pine timber in the Medicine
BOW range and threatening Mining
Buttes. The government sent q force
ol hShlers, under a supervisor to look
AFTER the fires last week but the men
QUIT claiming they We're under paid.
ana the efforts to check the flames are
now confined to individuals. Though
hundred miles from Cheyenne, the
smoke from these fires obscures the sky
here and the odor Of burning wood Is
noticeable.
The three fires in southern Carbon
county which the government has been
lighting for two weeks still burn fierce
ly' A government agent, with a large
FORCE OF men, is on the ground but is
reported to be making little progress.
FIVE or more fires are burning In Free
mont county, and more than 800 square
miles of magnificent timber land is al
ready In ashes. The largest Of the
fires is terrific and nothing tina. the
settlers can do has any effect on its
sN sep
In central Uinta county, q fire small
in comparison to the others, Is burning
and in the jackson Hole country two
big bla2es are eating the timber in the
game country Further east in the
Shoshone reservation a fire, the magni-
tude Of which Is not known, has been
burning for weeks.
In Natrona county good sized fire
has been destroying timber for the past
ten days.
One big fire threatens the timber Of
the Big Horn mountains and there Is
no report of any effort having been
made to check its progress. The fire
on the Grey Bull was furious for sew
elal days but Is believed to have spent
its fury.
THE COLORADO FIRES.
Denver, Sept. 16.-But little progress
toward checking the forest fires In diff
ferent sections of the state Is being
made. At the head Of Chicago Creek
the fire Is again beyond control. A
vast scope of territory has been burned
over and 1t is feared the towns along
Clear Creek VIII experience a shortage
Of water as consequence, due to the
fact that the fire has destroyed the
protection to the snow beds which were
the source Of the water supply for
Clear Creek.
United States Forest Supervisor Hen
ry Nicholson, who Is conducting the
fight against the fire In the neighbour
hood of Cassello, at the head of Platte
canyon. called upon the mining COM
panes In that vicinity for assistance in
lighting the flames and men were dis
patched with complete equipment TO the
aid Of the government official. This fire
has burned for several weeks and has
destroyed much valuable timber. Sew
eral summer resorts are in danger,
The Estes Park fires are burning
slowly but stubbornly resist all efforts
of the settlers to quench them. Dread
clouds OF smoke hang like a pail over
the mountain and are plainly visible
miles away
The fires in the nelghborhood Of FL
dora have destroyed an immense guam
tity Of rich timber.
But little damage 10 property from
any OF the fires in this state and as yet
no loss of life have been reported.