Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1902 — MAP OF THE FOREST FIRE DISTRICTS AND SCENES IN THOSE LOCALITIES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAP OF THE FOREST FIRE DISTRICTS AND SCENES IN THOSE LOCALITIES.

WASHINGTON.

OREST fires, which have spread with terrible rapidity, are sweeping bare of timber sections of the Rocky Mountains from the Wyoming line to central Colorado. Government inspectors and forest brigades are doing all in their power to check the progress of the flames and are receiving all possible assistance from ranchers and mining men. In some places the fires have been checked, but not subdued. The greater portion of them, however, have gained such headway that with the limited force of firefighters and other means at hand, the government officials can see little hope of succfessfully extinguishing the flames and must necessarily allow them to burn themselves out. New fires are reported daily and much fine timber heretofore untouched has been wiped out or is now burning, without any hope of being saved.