Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1910-08-25
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I Portland, Oregon, August 20.-
From Montana, Oregon, Idaho and
California. kilograms are pouring in
to various headquarters of the fores-
!. try service tonight appealing for more
men to fight the great fires that are
i devastating the big forests of the
west. Hundreds of soldiers, farmers
and laborers are already battling on
the firing lines, several hundred more
are hurrying to their aid and there
is crying need for 5000 more at least
in Oregon, Idaho and Montana alone.
The governor is spending approxi-
mately $4,000 daily in an attempt
, to control the conflagration, and for
,estry officials admit that the fires are
spreading with frightful rapidity de-
spite all efforts.
Rain is Badly Needed
Only rain to break the drought,
the longest since 1902 and a cessa-
tion of the high winds, can save
thousands of acres of virgin forests.
The loss already is appalling.
There are four big fires and numer-
GUS smaller ones in the southern
portion of the state which have burn
ed over an area Of thirty miles. It
is estimated that $3.000,o00 worth
of standing timber has been consum-
ed already. Civilians and local COM
panies of the United States infantry
are making dogged obstinate fight
against the flames, but their exhaust
ed efforts appear puny against the
great seas of fire.
In western Montana conditions but
little better obtain. Fifteen companies
|of infantry are making stands against
the flames. In addition two compan-
les are en- route to the fire lines from
Camp Sparta, Wis, and an urgent
call for ten more companies has been
put in by forestry officials, with only
two companies available to fill the
demand. More men are needed and
they cannot be secured. Fires on the
south fork of the Clearwater river
have swept the country. In Wash
ington destructive blaze is reported
to be working through the timber In:
the Rainer national reserve. Owing
to the inaccessib1lity of the region
little information as to the true sit
Iuation can now be secured.
In California several square miles
in the Grass valley, near Nevada
City, has been burned over. Five
hundred men are battling against
this conflagration tonight in an eff.
fort to save the fumes of the South
Yuba River company, which supplies
the town with water. Fires which
are giving trouble at present are in
southern Oregon and Montana. Ac-.
cording to dispatches reaching here
the situation in Montana is beyond
human power to improve. A COM
pany of colored troops reached Bor-.s
AK today from Camp Sparta. They
left Immediately for the big fire burn
ing to the north of the settlement.
Trains Lighted in Daytime.
Butte, Mont, August 21.-All
Northern Pacific and Burlington ov-
erland trains tonight were ordered
routed between Butte. Helena and
Spokane over the northern tracks via
Great Falls, because of the number
of forest fires west Of Missoula, where
flames are approaching close to the
railroad right of way.
Northern Pacific trains from the
west tonight reported indefinitely
late. Clouds of smoke rolled out of
Butte this afternoon from the west, it
being necessary to turn all lights on
at z o'clock.
Mine Destroyed
Spokane. Aug. 20.-s Stirred by
wind a forest fire swept down Gray
Creek near Libby. Mont, yesterday,
destroying the building at shaugh-
messy Hill Mine. Mr.. and Mrs. David
Davis and Edward Leighter escaped
by getting into one Of the tunnels
leading into the mines. A dog with
them succumbed to the heat.
May Call National Guard
Portland. Ore. August Acting
Forester Albert Z. Potter tonight re-
.ceived advices from Supervisor Buck
at Medford, Oregon, stating that the
continual spread Of fires in southern
Oregon had revealed clearly the work
OF incendiaries. Forest rangers are
now engaged in rounding up definite
evidence. s3::.s5
May Call ON Oregon Governor
Mr.. Potter views with anxiety this
particular feature Of the situation.
and intimated that It may be found