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red firs were in process of destruction, every degree of injury existing 
from the totally dead tree to the tree only slightly injured, showing 
that they were dying from some cause stijl in operation during the 
summer of 1908; (4) many of the red firs showing the most severe 
fire scars were the least injured, while many others with only slight 
fire scars were killed; (5) if any trees had been killed by the fire, it 
‘would most probably have been the thin-barked lodgepole pines, and 
not the thick-barked red firs, yet the lodgepole pines were in good 
condition all over the mountain, and the red firs were dead and 
dying; (6) the red firs which were less than twenty-two years old 
were also dying; (7) the area previously mentioned, which was un- 
doubtedly killed by fire, had quite a different appearance from that 
of the other sections of the mountain. In the fire-killed area no 
small branches appeared on the dead trees, only the tree trunks and 
largest branches remaining, and even many of these had fallen. Over 
the remainder of the mountain there were very small branches still 
on many of the dead trees. 
The mountain which stands just west of Warm, Springs Creek, 
where it makes a sudden turn north, was also carefully inspected. 
This mountain is approximately in secs. 13 and 24, T.5 N., R. 13 W., 
and is about 13 miles from the smelter. The fire of about twenty-two 
years ago (reckoned from 1908) evidently ran over a large part of 
this mountain, as is shown by fire scars, but was sufficient in intensity 
to kill the timber only over an area of about 15 to 20 acres on the 
west slope and 5 to 10 acres on the east slope. On the east slope 
there was a fire approximately fifty years ago at certain points. A 
considerable area on the eastern slope and an area of from 250 to 300 
acres on the northern slope had never been visited by fire since the 
growth of the forest. All over this mountain, whether on the area 
visited by the fire of twenty-two years ago, which was fire-scarred but 
not killed, or on the area that had never been visited by fire, the 
lodgepole pines were in very good condition, while the red firs were 
practically all dead or dying. The same course of reasoning as that 
adopted in the previous case proves that the red firs on this mountain 
were not killed by fire (except in the small area mentioned), but were 
attacked by some agency which was still active during the summer of 
1908. 
A thorough examination was made of the mountain known as 
Weigle Hill, which is at the fork of the roads leading to Silver Lake 
and Cable, approximately 15 miles from the smelter, in sec. 23, 
T.5 N., R. 13 W. The principal part: of the eastern slope of this 
mountain had been visited by a fire about sixty years previous to 
the date of inspection. Certain parts of the eastern slope indicated 
a fire about one hundred years ago, while the southern end of the 
mountain had been attacked by fire about thirty-six years previous. 
