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August 1, 1909
DAILY ARIZONA SILVER BELT
Page Seven
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PHOKMX. .July 31. Chairman Ely
0 'be Anwa railway commission re
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j, S -fc.il llioro or less milium region.,
Mr Ely saw many things on tho trip
,!ijT reminded him of that tlio frontioi
days we not so far in the past as
od i apt to uinK. lie lounn many
fTident-ea of tlie raids of tlio Apaches
oa the isolated settlements, signs of
plaWy the last sweep of Gcronimo
through the country.
He visited soveral ruined cabins,
ulicb, save for the ravages of timo,
1793 Battle of the Nile. . . . i ,
1S34 Opening of tho new bridge across tho Thames river in London.
lf3:M.'ommodore John Hodgcrs, celobratcd American naval officer, died.
Mi Abolition riots took place in. Philadelphia.
1S34 Yellow fever becamo epidemic in New Orleans.
1SG6 General William T. Sherman commissioned lieutenant guneral.
lsil-Gencral Custer's expedition reached tho Black Hills.
1S76 lulorailn admitted to statehood. -
bj Southern exposition opened in Louisville.
tintain.
I IS i 42N0 BIRTHDAY
WILLIAM SPIERS BRUCE
Dr. William Spiers Urucc. the British
wplorer who is about to set out on a
trip in search of the south polo, was
rem August l, 1507, and received his
education at the University of Edin
burgh. At an early ngo ho became
"otej as a naturalist anil in later vears
U has won a wide reputation as n
uaieier ana explorer. Ho accompanied
Ibe Dundoo Antarctic expedition in
N92 and was the zoologist with tho
Jaebondlarinsworth polar expedition
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He Andrew fpats expedition to No
.n Zemlya, Wielie Islands, and Bar
"fa Sea in 189S, and was leader of
"acouish Aational Antarctic, expe
Mionon tho "Scotia," which explored
'"0 miles of tho coast lino of tho Ant
"die continent. Dr. Bruce is of the
yn that there is but ono great
Antarctic continent and this ho hopes
? ,wv,rie in his approaching expedi-
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ROWN OR HIS BEARStilP
cnlibor of tho gun decreased.
Ho hadn't gazed upon tho brute for
more, than thirty seconds when ho
imagined that he was facing a masto
don or some other equally incongruous
prehistoric animal, armed with an air
gun.
Right thou and there Hrown dcc.idod
to beat it. Letting out a yell that
would have, backed a wholo band of
Comnni'hos o(T tho board and up against
tho paddock gate, ho made tracks for
camp.
And tho tracks he did make were
few and far apart. Occasionally thoy
com I 1 ho found on tho high spots. And
the worst of it was that when ho readi
ed I'nmp, ho was so near out of breath
that ho couldn't oven gasp out that
Unto honored gag about "bringing him
homo nlivc. " .
According to Nnquin, the bear ran
just about ns fast as Hrown did in
the .opposito direction.
Latest Butcheries
wero in the sanio shnpo in which thoy
had been loft by tho Apaches. Thoro
woro mounds or heaps of stones near
tho houses, where the victims woro
buried, aftor the red scourge had passed
by.
Within tlio' cabins wero broken fur
nituro, rotting 'innttrcssc and rusted
bed springs, and the walls wero
adorned with tho' cheap ehromos of a
generation ago.
Tho victims wero members of fam
ilies of small cattlemen who had pushed
opt into tho dangerous country and es
tablished themselves with small herds.
These lanehes were generally far re
moved from one another, so that no
word of what had happened to one
of them .could reach another until the
Indians wero at hand. Thus the coun
try was swept clean.
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THIS DATE IN HISTORY
IXO-Unl h'oherts proclaimed tho annexation of tho Transvaal to. Great
KING EDWARD REVIEWS
SHIPS or BRITISH NAVY
PORTSMOUTH, July 31. More than
three hundred ships of tho British navy,
tho largest assemblage of modorn war
craft over scon under any one ling, in
their gayest holiday dress, were review
ed by King Edward today, while hun
dreds of thousands, aslioro and afloat,
saw tho brilliant spectacle. Tho re
view, which marked the close of tho
great naval maneuvers which have been
in progress for over a month, took
place in tho Solont. In tho picturesque
roadstead from East Cowcs to Stokes
Bay tho great licet of battleships, cruis
ers and smaller fighting craft lay at
anchor in six loug columns. Proceeding
from C'owes, King Edward, on board
the royal yacht. A'ictoria and Albert,
passed along tho lines, whilo tho great
guns belched forth a continuous salute.
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company.
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Values" that will prove most profitable investments. And
we have a number of just such "buys" if you will call and
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USE OF TELEPHONES IN THE FOREST
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Tlio season for forest fires has com
menced. Tho early summer months
with their days of heat and drought
invnriably bring with, (hem destruction
to acres and acres of timber tracts tlint
this country can ill afford to lose. Dr.
W. J. McGco, tho' government's erosion
expert, estimates the aggregate loss
from that source, hiking in all
parts of tho country, at no less
fhan a million dollars a day dur
ing tlie dry spell. Last year tho
fires wore worse than over. Ev
erybody can recall tlio daily re
ports of towns wiped out, lives
lost and thousands of siiuaru
miles of precious woodland wast
ed. It amounted to nothing less
than a public calamity. Tlio
terrible visitation formed part of
tho subject of President Tloose
volt 's famous message on the con
servation of natural resources.
If tlio fertility of American soil
is not to suffor surely something
must bo done to guard against
another devastation like that of
15)08, ho argued.
For the loss is not alone to
tho tracts of wooded land laid
waste. The character of an en
tiro countrysido is changed by
such a conflagrataion. .Many hno
passed through portions of vari
ous states and seen tho awful
effects of a forest, fire the black
ened stumpskjt leaves behind, the
dreary waste of sterile, unpro
ductive laud.
Not only is timber .burned up,
but the loss of foliage hiui a de
structive effect on tlie atmos
phere. The development of all
streams,; on which the country
relies for power, and which forms
tho distinctive feature of all
American landscapes, is arrested.
Tho indirect loss which accrues
when forests arc burned would
be pretty hard to estimate.
Undo Sam, of course, knows
this, and it is interesting to sec
what has already been done to
provent further loss. The gov
ernment exorcises sway only over
tho national forests, principally
in tho fnr west. Hero prodigious
stops are being taken to safeguard tho
timber lands from destruction. Princi-
KNAPSACK PHONE
pal among the provontivo measures is
the Use of tho telephone. Already this
common littlo instrument has succeed
ed in arresting tho progress of several
serious blazes, and the exports of tho
department of ngriculture arc eagerly
watching for more proofs of its effi
ciency. In tho national forests in lOOS1) lands
extending 414,038 acres were burned
over. Tho timber destroyed aggregated
232,191,000 board feet. There is food
for thought in these figures. As much
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lumber as was utterly destroyed last
year would build many a good sized
town. Cut into plnuks of tho accepted
dimensions, ono inch thick and ono foot
wide, and laid end to end, it would ex
tend almost twico around the earth.
A I'd this too in the national forests
alone only tho thousands of individual
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lumbermen whose private interests suf
fered could furnish any information
that would involve a Teal total.
The Forest Service atlas figures that
in the year 190G-7 for every thousand
acres of national woodland, .92 acres
wero destroyed by fire. ' In tho preced
ing year 1.078 acres per 1000 wore burn
ed over. But. in the iat year, with a
report of '114,038 acres destroyed out of
n total of inO,S31,fiO"i acres of forest
land, including alienations, it can be
computed that 2.74 acres out of every
thousand wero wiped out.
How Forest Fires Start
Fires in tho forest have their origin
in many causes. In the summer mouths
dry lenves and brittle stumps arc pro
lific sources of trouble. Tho least spark
thrown into a pile of woodland rubbish
may start a tiny flamo tho blaze, in
visible for days, perhaps, will smoulder
until suddenly it breaks out and siezes
tree after tree.
It is possible to avoid one species
of risk, and here New York has set
a notable example. Tlio public service
commission for the s.ecoud district of
the Empire stnto has directed an im
portant ruling at the railroads. Tho
second district includes nil of the state
without the boundaries of the city of
Now York and there are no woods in
Gotham, unless one considers tho park
trees. The New York state railroads
last year woro found to be the cause
of oighty-three serious blazes, most of
them in tho Adirondncks. Sparks from
locomotives did tho damuge. Accord
ingly the Hughes commission, after an
inquiry into the facts, has ordered that
oil bo burned as fuel in locomotives on
all ronds traversing the wooded lands
between April 15 and November 1 of
each yoar.
Tho foresters wish it wero as easy to
regulate hunters, who causo more trou
ble than railroads. New York reports
that last yoar 103 fires of largo dimen
sions wero caused by tho carelessness
of amateur sportsmen. Fifty thousand
acres of trees wore burned down. The
hunter who builds his camp fire in a
THE FOItEST
clearing and goes away -without stamps
ing out the remains; the man who
knocks tho hot ashes out of bis pipe
ly hitting it against a tree trunk, and
the one who throws his eignr off into
tho bushes at his side, littlo realize
what follows in their wake. Probably,
if told they wero tho cause of the
great, conflagration thoy sec a fow days
later, they would bo astonished.
Quite a fow of these fires are start
ed by incondiaries. Tho fiend who sets
tho torch to a forest differs very little
descriptions. During the forest fire
seaion the United States forest service
employs 1,301 rangers and guards. Each
from his brother, who explodes a bomb
in a tenement. Thoughtless children'
aro kiiQwn to have been the cause of
some fires. Still n larger, number go
unexplained. What to To to check the
spread of the flames is a more pressing
problem to the government tharl how
thoy started.
Fighting the Flames
In tho nntional forests are about
200,000 men ready to turn out and fight
tho flames whenever necessary. This
includes regulars and volunteers of all
man has a certain beat to patrol. Tak
ing into consideration tho area of the
national forests, it can be calculated
that each of those " patrolmen " covers
121,500 square miles. Quite a long beat
for a man, even on horseback.
This is where tho telephone comes
in. Portable 'phones are made ex
pressly for this purpose, and with their
aid each ranger is kept in touch with
his entire area. Let a firo start, and
immediately tho wires ring with the
messago of warning. Strappod to tho
back of the ranger, the .telephone is nn
ever-present and quicker than lightning
messenger. It has worked wonders lato-
ly and it moans almost tho only encour
agement for those, engaged in the ap
parently hopeless task of1" combating
tho foiest fires.
In ono case last ypar a government
officer summoned help from forty-threw
miles away with his portable instru
ment. Aid was received more than a
day sooner than if a messenger had
been dispatched.
Forester Oifford Pinchot 's latest re
)ort on this subject is dated June 30,
TAPPING
1908. During the years previous to
that day, 3,500 miles of telephone lines
wero constructed in tho national for
ests. This year's report will show in
teresting data. Tho work has been
progressing as rapidly ns appropriations
would permit, and the number of tele
phones has been greatly increased. Al
ready this year 2,523-yi miles of tele
phone linos have been constructed. The
Western Electric company is installing
tho 'phones and apparatus iii the gov
ernment's lands.
Tho Forett Telephone
Government telephone lines havo
been built in Arizona, California, Mon
tana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklaho
ma, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wy
oming. The need of 'phones has not
To talk of eliminating forest fires
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SERVICE
is nonsense, everybody knows that. Rut
If tho success to which they may be
been underestimated in tho past and
mnny miles of telephone lino have been
constructed in the national forests. Tiro
headquarters of many of the forest
ofliccrs are in isolated parts of the coun
try and in some cases it takes three
weeks for an answer to a letter-to lie
received, although the distance may
not exceed sixty or seventy miles,
fought allows a greater percentage
THE WIRES
through the uso of the telephone t)io
forest service will feel justified in the
expenditure it has made. With the
Reason now on, the men in tho woods
will find thoir 'phones 'inoro tban' use
ful. One of these portable telephones is
an interesting instrument. Tho case is
i handsomely finished in birch or mnhog-
any and is provided with a strap to
fncilitatc handling. It contains a buz
zer, hand generator, switch, receiver
curd, one dry battery, induction coil,
a transmitter and a receiver.
, The transmitter is fastened inside
tho case and the receiver and tho other
projecting parts arc mounted so that
they aro not likely to bo caught by
branches. The compactness of the set
makes it easy to handle.
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