SAN FRANCISCO, Calif July 19.—Hundreds of men continued today to fight the fires in the five government timber preserves in California, and the numerous brush and grass fires on state and privately owned land in this state and Nevada. The fires cast a pall of smoke over a vast area and created a situation described as serious by W. B. Rider.
The federal government put 1300 men at work fighting the flames in; the Trinity national forest and in the Plumas national forest, 400 men fought a fire that began yesterday and destroyed two lumber camps.
The brush and grass fires will result in stockmen with grazing herds facing a serious shortage of feed later in the season. The largest fire in Nevada was in the Truckee canyon near Hinton station and the mountain sides were ablaze.
The Lamoine Lumber company, near Redding, used every available man to combat the flames that threatened the town of Lamoine and for a time were within a half mile of homes. The fire that started east of Redding last Friday was 12 miles from the starting point today.
Only eight small residences remain in the mining town of Quartz, in Tuolumne county. A brush fire last night spread rapidly and caused a loss estimated at $100,000. The burned property included all of the property above the ground of two mining companies.
Douglas Dispatch, Douglas, AZ, July 20, 1926
