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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1914)
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Aside from patrol and flro flgL lng other means are employed, to pre vent fires as far as such means prove effoctlvo. Precautionary measures, ouch as the piling and burning of brush and debris on timber sale and free uso areas servo to clean up the groiind And greatly lessen tho fire menace. Educating tho people that use or iruvui inrouga luo lurenia 10 1 exercise great caro with fire, cigars, cigarettes, tobacco and matches Is an Important preventive measure, and Ir this work the state governments, timber owners' associations nnu otberu help greatly. Constant re minders of the danger of fires In tin form of signs are posted all throug1 the woods, Clearing and burning brush 'aiong roads and trails is still another-measuro being employed Just as fast as time and money permit.. Dut the chief principle of fire pro tectlon under present day conditions is ombodlod in tho lookout and pa trol system. This consists of estab lishing lookout stations on high peaks, 'the view from which com mands u vast scopo of territory. Dur ing tho months of July, 'August and, September, except wnen wcathor con- dltlons, ore unfavorable to flra, men) are stationed on there high peaks' whose duty It Is to keop a constant' lookout In a)l directions for flro, I There are fourteen such lookout sta-i tlons established on tho Crater for est. The men .at these points are equipped with telepbones and im mediately report tho direction, ap proxlmato distance and location o all fire's 'discovered. " ' It tobk tlmo.and monoy to extend telopbuncr lines through 'the v6ods td lookout stations. .It could not be ac complished In two or threo years for the appropriations wore limited. Howovor wondorful euccces has been ucblovo'd In this respect. Thero now remain'only four lookput stations yet to be equipped with telephone lines and there will be eighteen of them on tho PrAtor forest, Fronj , (bo combined, lpokout siu tlons, as arranged,, practically (he whole surface area within the Crater national forest. 1,080,000 acres, can be seen". Many of the lookouts nec essarily command In part the samo territory, and when such is tho enso there is. exhibited a gratifying spirit of rivalry botween two or more look out bibb -o discover and report bo-, fore another, Jhe, location of a fire In common .tewltorji. yfcaxh. lookout MiUtm 1 equipped with lookout & $k . ...T.VttV . ..WSKvK WM , V& A- . ,' m ' .' .s - . . V- - . . :. :. i. . ; - " y-, r, --... A- ,J ... " .y .'". ' w ':'-' ::.:m-' '-:r:: ' '.' T:;- " smjk ' g-lBtLi- r.im.rnmfjc ' VtJBHPBBBBn if y?- r u.-tA'.s..'''Ul T' -. x.'M.i, K-.v'i.ti: .''. ' r table, pon which Is a map of tho forest. This fable Is orfontod and fxed with an alldalo .made to r.volvo within a graduated circle of SCO do- f'grccs from tho lookout point us i .confer.- Jiy merely BiHntniK tnrougn this alldalo toward tho fire, the bear? lng.of.lt Is. read off dlrocitly- froin tho map. Whon two or moro lookout- men "report tho' bearing 5f u flro theso courses are platted and tho fire located on' tho" map by Intersection Uvory forest office has a copy of the samo map and when tho flro Is once located In this way every forest of fice who has tho uso of a telephone lino, knows definitely tho location of tho flro. ' Tho whqle' object of tho patrol or lookout system Is to discover and got men'to a flro In the shortost possible time. All forest fires hdvo a small boglnnlng and If attacked In their in clplency can be extinguished by ono or two men, while if allowed to burn and sproad for hours and even dayu at a time, as was common In previous years, 1Q0 or 200 men may ue needed to control It. M, h. 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Own ers of largo tracts of timber tiavo so much capital Involvod In tho acquire ment of their holdings that they sro reluctant to Invest heavier In thn construction of railroads In order to Kit tholr timber to market. Market values for lumber havn constantly boen Increasing and they feci It n good Investment to continue holding their timber. Tho government Is willing to sell Its mature timber at any time, and Its recently fire killed timber It Is advertising for sale now at extraordinary low prices und In large enough bodies to warruut the construction of railroads to Uiu timber. ItnllniiHl llullt Tho- Pacific ft I'astcrn railroad al ready (ouches thn tlnibor. belt of Upper Itogui) river, and 'tbo railroad proponed to tho niiio'l.odgocopjer mlnos'wllhopori up tho vast timbered region of thn Siskiyou range. rA .. . . j: ..-' :&" -i.Oi''''" .Mill Creek I'iiIU on llond to t 'ruler l.nl;i ,'7 Tho milling of tho lumber from : on tint otlujr. tho great forest n will bo reduced ! 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