Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-26
PROTECT FROM
FOREST FIRES
STATE ASKS COOPERATION OF
SETTLERS, CAMPERS, ETC.
CITES Law COVERING THE CASE
State Fire Warden Sends Out In
stIuctiOns and EXpOunds Law Re-
garding Fires and What Campers
Should Do Regarding Them.

Medford, May 24.-The state of
Oregon desires the heartiest cooper
alton between the state and all set
tiers, wood choppers, loggers, camp
ers and hunters. To that end il is
urged that the following extracts
from the Oregon forest fire laws be
given all possible attention in order
that all may be familiar with them.
Complete copies of forest fire laws
may be had free of charge upon ap-
plfcation to B. l. Shannon, state SUI
pervising warden, Medford, Ore:
Campers and hunters are espec-
tally urged to exercise all possible
care to completely put out camp fires
before leaving them, as fully so per
cent of all forest fires result from
neglected camp fires.
Burned timber pays no taxes, thus
every forest fire is not only loss to
the owner in timber and to the peo-
pie in wages, but increases the bur-
den of taxation upon all other forms
of property.
Section z. During the period be-
tween June 1, which is hereby desig-
mated the closed season, it shall be
unlawful for any person or persons
to set on fire, or cause to be set on
fire, any slashing, chopping, wood
land or brush land, either his or
their own or the property of another,
without written or printed permis-
sion from fire warden and compli-
ance with the terms thereof which
shall prescribe the conditions upon
which the permit is given and which
are necessary to be observed in set
ting such fire and to prevent it from
spreading so that life or property of
another may be endangered thereby.
This restriction shall not apply to
the burning of log piles, stumps or
brushheaps, in small quantities, un-
der adequate precautions and per-
sonal control, and in accordance with
any regulations which may be adopt
ed by the state board of forestry for
the purpose of insuring public SAT-
ETY.; but if any such burning without
permission shall result in the escape
of fire and injury to the property of
another, this shall be held prima
facie evidence that such burning was
not safe and was in violation of this
section.
Permits to burn, as provided by
this section, may be issued by any
fire warden, and shall contain such
safeguarding restrictions as to time
of burning and precaution to be TAX
en- as may be fixed by the state for
ester or left by him to the discretion
of fire wardens.
1t shall be lawful to build, in a
careful manner, camp fires on any
uninclosed lands, the owner of which
has not forbidden such building of
camp fires thereon by personal no.
tice or by posting such prohibition
in conspicuous places or otherwise,
If, before departing from the place
where such camp fire has been built,
the builder of such fire totally extin-
guishes the same.
Section 8. Any person who builds
camp fire upon lands within this
state, not his own, without clearing
the ground Immediately around it
free from material which will carry
fire, or who leaves thereon a camp
fire burning and unattended, or who
permits a camp fire to spread there
on, or who uses in any firearms dis
charged thereon other than incom-
bustible gunwadding, shall be pun
ished by fine of not less than $25
nor more than $500.