The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-24

immediate danger, it is believed. The
| fire is destroying much timber in the
National forests of the great mountain
| chain whose crest forms the northeast
ern boundary of Idaho and which chain
is called the Bitter Root, Occur d 'Alene
and Cabinet ranges in its progress
northwesterIy from the continental di-
vide of the Rocky Mountains. These
mountains and all the Panhandle of Ida
bo are thickly clothed with pine, spruce,
red fir and hemlock, and most of the
country burning has never before felt
the breath of fire.
Nation Greatest Loser.
The people of the United States as
owners Of the national forests are the
principal losers of property. 1t will
take decades to restore the devastated
portions Of forests. Secretary of Agri,
culture Wilson after his recent tour of
the national forests, stated proudly that
they were being conserved; that all the
forest fires then burning were all among
trees privately owned. The forests
through which the fire has passed arc
killed, but the timber is merchantablc
if revived at once. Next to the United
States, big corporations, notably the
Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound
railroad and the Coeur d 'Alenc lead and
silver mines which use much timber in
their workings are the chief sufferers
III is difficult to give figures on the tim
ber losses, which may reach $4,000 900.
IL is estimated more than $4,000 settlers
in Montana. Idaho and WASHINGTON
have lost their homes and everything in
them.
The present summer has been one of
the dryest ever known, Fires lighted
by settlers to clear lands and by loco.
motives Of railroad trains have speed
ilv become giants of destruction. A
little blaze at the bottom of gulches
swiftly runs up mountains at each side
and at the TOP of the hill huge blazing
branches of trees are borne away by the
wind to extend the field of ruin
Following is a partial list Of dead to
date in the forest fire areas in northern
Idaho and northeastern Washington.
Known Dead.
LOUIS HOLMES, Spokane.
THOMAS WELSH, Spokane.
GEORGE ZlGLER, Newport, 81 years
MRS. ERNEST DEMHARDT, New
GEORGE CAMPBELL, Newport.
THOMAS CAREY, Newport
THOMAS CADY. rancber, Newport
THOMAS DAVIES, rancher, Now
port.
uENRY HERMAN. -Garwood, Ida.
v NlIT1oDAGoN, agcQ II, Gem, lda
LAWRENCE RYsoN, aged so, Wal
lace
LESLIE SELLERS, aged is, Gem,
Ida.
s. D. ADAMS, aged 30, Chicago.
A. PETERSON. Hillsdale, Wis.
ERNEST ELGIN, aged so, Wallace.
WILLIAM NJ KEY, Taft. Ida, dead
at Saltese.
Creek.
joseph BEAUCHAMP, rancher of
Big Creek.
JAMES C. BOYD, Wallace,
JOSEPH FENE, Placer creek.
WILLIAM HEARMOUTH, War
JOSEPH SMITH, burned near Mul.
Ian.
"FRENCHY, - familiar Spokane
character. killed on Placer creek.
JOHN Address, wife and five chill.
dren, La Tour creek, near Cataldo, re-
ported dead.
Z. a. SMITH, wife and two chill.
dren, La Tour creek, reported dead.
JAMES OSBORNE, wife and one
child, La Tour creek, reported dead.
j. W WILLIAMSON, fireman, killed
near Pocono.
MRS. a. l. GREGORY and two chill.
dren, near Newport, reported dead.
Eighteen settlers and their families
living on the Spokane road near New.
port, in northeastern Washington. un
accounted for, according to word which
was brought to Spokane today. The
homesteads of these settlers nre in the
burned district and it will be impossible
TO reach them for several days,