, 1902-08-28
FOREST FIRES.
Special Agents now at Work. With Men
and Teams. Trying to E~xtinguish
Them-sevsn or Eight Fires now Burn
ing-will Cost s.. 900 to Put Them
Out.

Out.
The first organized effort to.
ward the distinguishing of the for
est fires in this vicinity WAS be.
gun last Thursday, when the In.
terror Department sent the fol.
lowing telegram. which will ex.
plain itself:
WASHINGTON. d. c..
August 2lst, 1902.
y. +. CRAWFORD,
Saratoga, Wyoming.
You are hereby authorized to
take necessary s to extin.
guish forest fires on public lands
and forest reserves. until arrival OF
O'Brien or Camplin, who will pay
expenses and who have been or
dered TO Encampment.
W. A. RICHARDS,
Acting Commissioner.
Approved,
RYAN, Acting Secretary.
Steps we're Immediately taken,
looking to the carrying out of the
ordcr" in the most expedious man.
ner. A party of ten men, with
two teams, equipped with suppl
es and necessary tools, under the
charge of W. b. Harden, an ex.
perienced timber man, was started
out for the large forest fire burn
ing on Brush creek. The party
had two weeks supplies for %
men and on Sunday another party
of ten or twelve men were sent
out to the camp as an additional
force.
On Friday, the 22nd, Mr.. Craw-
ford went to Encampment and or
ganized a party there, composed
of lS men, under the leadership
of Walter Jemison, another ex-
p%erienced timber man, who had
been engaged on a previous oc-
casion to fight fire. This party,
after being well supplied with
tools and provisions, was sent To
a large fire on the south fork of
Grand Encampment river. An
other party under the leadership
of F. G. CRUDE, of the Encamp-
ment Transportation Company,
was authorized TO go to Green
Mountain, where there was anoth-
err very dangerous fire raging.
Word was also sent to Andy
Olson, the superintendent of the
Carbon Timber Company, whose
headquarters are on the head wa
tiers of the south fork of Grand
Encampment river, to turn his
forces loose on the fire which had
just broken out in "Damifno'
Park, and which was threatening
a large body of timber and bidding
fair to sweep the range.
A fire had, in the meantime,
sprung up on the east side of the
North Platte river, opposite the
mouth of Big creek. Ira B. Cas-
teel, of the firm of Hunter, Cas-
teel & Hunter, was telephoned to
look after that and to s every
endeavour to extinguish it. The
fire near Independence Mountain,
which had been burning for SC
long a time, and having about ex
pended itself, was allowed to slum-
Der until it gave signs of doing
damage, but it was hoped that il
had gone as far as possible and
would give no more trouble
A small fire was burning in the
Beaver creek canon, but it was
not considered dangerous, being
in a district of very few trees. A
fire on the head of south fork OF
Spring creek, which had gotten
away from a prospector and had
burned over a quarter section of
land, was in Il smouldering con-
dition and a party was organized
on Monday to go and attend to it.
On Saturday night last, Special
Agent NJ. b. Camplin arrived here,
in response to orders from the
General Land Office. On Sunday
Special Agent, Maj. N. j. O'Brien,
who belongs to the District OF
Colorado, arrived here and assum-