The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-07-14
HOW FOREST FIRE
STARTS
Unique Demonstration OF Danger to
Timber fro,n Several Causes.

A practical, fercible and unique
demonstration Of FIVE Of the principal
causes Of fores, 6-ss is being made
this week In one Of the windows Of
the Hargus store. The exhibit con-
sists Of \ revolving disc about four
feet in diameter divided into five sec
:ions so ~ to show how forest fires
may be started from = railroad train,
lightning, campers and burning brush.
Wooded mountains. cnbins. tourist
camp and . railroad train are shown
In miniature, but true TO life. The
disc is revo,yed by an electrical motor
concealed underneath and ~ 1t brings
into view the different sections pre-
sents an object lesson that Is both
impressive and convincing.
Sometime ago we read very inter
esting autobiography, not Of man,
not Of woman, but Of tree--a he
role old pine tree that grew ! nthe
southern Rockies; grew to be giant,
and waved evergreen banners more
hftuN III lctk hpONf VIC cur iis tUt
tree was called Old Pine on account
OF his great age.
Enos Miller transcribes Old Pines
autobiography from records which
he found in the tree itself, and has
published under the heading Of "The
Story Of Thousand year Pine" In
book entitled "Wild Life in the Rock
iesT
Mills prefaces this life sketch MS
follows; "Trecs like people, struggle
fer existence; an aged tree, like an
aged person, has not only striking !
appearance. but an interesting biog- /
rsphy. | have read the autobiogra- i
phies Of many century old trees, and T
hAve found their life stories strange s
and impressive. The yearly growth, b
or annual ring of wood with which n
trees develop themselves, is emhoss- n
sd with so many Of their experiences 7
that this annual ring Of growth liter |,
ally forms an photographed diary h
II the trees life" b
Old Pine was cut down by lumber
men and WAS abandoned because his
runk was shattered In falling. II was
hen that Mills found his opportunity L
o obtain the life records from the h,
rec. 6.
He carefully examined the base OF NJ
he stump. and in II found one thous- r
nd and forty-seyen rings Of growth, Ell
which indicated that Old Pine had liv-
d that many years. The year of his
firth was computed definitely to have
cen In $3.50. The rings Of growth By
,eans Of the nature Of the wood, re- ~
eaied Old Pines life experiences, and
hNnologieally recorded them as TO on
ear Of occurrence
This story Is interesting and inspir- Ju
* because Il records how Old Pine
rev to be a heroic tree. in spite Of on
'e odds that were against him The
God bore impressions Of favorable
Gather, Of drought and cold. There
ere many evidences Of injuries from w
rms, bites, bruises. weapons, light th'
ng and winds, There were scars; Una
ere were healed wounds, often, his hlf
lrk was broken and torn and as Of ot
n healed again.
Mills discovered interesting records uee
70 these; Two flint arrow heads us,
at pierced Old Pine in l4s6--what PR
les OF Indian life do they tell ~ se''
Q and Are markings inflicted upon .nr
! ,rna h ,sao ,hs vaar Il xhi,h int,
cording to old chronicles, Spanish he''
plorers came to the locality where qu'
d Pine stood; rock of about FIVE Iar
unds weight embedded in Old Pine cap
VIII,