Weekly journal-miner., 1916-05-10
WARNING SENT OUT AGAINST
 FOREST FIRES
SUPERVISOR OF PRESCOTT NATIONAL RESERVE IS ANXIOUS TO PREVENT CARELESS ACTS.


 fire season which commences about this time and lasts until the summer rains, Forest Supervisor Hinderer i: sending out circulars warning all us ing the national forests of the danger of fires.
 The forest service has arranged for the placing of permanent lookout men on Thumb Butte, Spence Noun tain, Mount Julian, and Horse Thiei mountain. All of the lookout points will be connected with Supervisor Hinderer's office in Prescott by tele phone.
 In his warning, the supervisor says:
 "The camper and prospector are requested and warned to be careful with their camp fires. Dig pit for your fire or clear strip around all sides of it. Be sure that your camp fire is out before leaving it. Be sure your match or your cigarettG or your pipe ashes, or your cigar is out before throwing it down in the forest Campers and prospectors are warn cG against allowing and accumulation of inflammable material about their camps; and prospectors are particu- larly warned against allowing a fire tO burn in their cabin or in their camp when they are underground mining.
 "Stockmen and their employees arc requested and warned against build ;ng and leaving branding fires within the forest.
 Automobiles and tourists who use the roads through the forest ;tc requested and warned to be very care. ful about throwing out of their ma chimes cigarettes, cigars, matches or pipe ashes which arc still burning and lre liable to start a forest fire beside he road. Be careful to thoroughly extinguish your smoke" or to throw it on a barren place where it is not possible to start fire. The same warning is extended to all travellers by gay means of transportation over the roads or trails on the forest.
 Timber sale contractors are warn d against the disposal of brush or debris during the dry season by burn ing, and this should not be undcrtak- cn during that season without the specific consent of the forest service Timber sale contractors are also warned against the accumulation oi 'nfiammable material about their camps and concerning the care Of fires in their camps.
 'In case fire is discovered by any 0ne on or near the Prescott national forest please telephone or communi- -ate by some other means with any one of the forest officers whose ad- iresses arc listed below:
 Forest Supervisor. Chas. H. Hin ierer, Telephone Black 1oO. Super cisor's Ofice), Prescott.
 Forest Supervisor. Chas. H. Hin derer. Telephone Black 334, (Resi- ience), Prescott.
 Forest Ranger. ,.R. II. Zeiger. Tele- phone 9R2, Willow Ranger Station, Prescott.
 Forest Ranger, NJ L. Nichols. Telephone 6R3, Groom Creek Ranger Station, Groom Creek.
 Forest Guard, Vim. Pratt, Tele- phone Long Distance, Mt. Union mine. 6R3
 Assistant Forest Ranger. A. w Fletcher or Forest Guard, Louis Hart Telephone Long Distance, Ranger Station, Crown King. Arizona.
 Assistant Forest Ranger. F. H. Oldham, Telephone Long Distance, Yeagcr Canyon Ranger Station, Je rome.
 In case you cannot locate the for est ranger promptly, please communi- cate with the supervisors office or residence in Prescott. All charges for telephone or telegraph services in such cases will be promptly paid by the forest service.
 "Tne act of May ;, 1900, provides a fine of Sl.O00 or one year in prison, or both. for building a fire and leaving 1t before 1t is totally extinguished. Any officer of the forest service is au thorized to arrest persons who violate this law, without warning, and 1t is the intention to prosecute willful of lenders to the full extent of the law