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Title: What to see in America
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Inyo National Forest Summit of ISan Jacinto Peak Never throw them intoleaves or dry vegetablematter. Your camp fireshould be small. Buildit in the open — notagainst a tree or log, ornear brush. Scrape awaythe trash from all aroundit, and construct a fire-place by digging a holeor piling up rocks. Thatmakes the fire draw bet-ter and is also safer.Never leave a fire, evenfor a short time, withoutquenching it with waterand then covering it withearth. Fires are reported California 459 mainly by lookouts located on commanding peaks, wherethey remain continuously on duty. As soon as a fire isdiscovered by the mountain watcher, he telephones or sig-nals to the ranger in whose district the fire is located, andimmediate steps are taken to put it out. Promptness is achief necessity, and the present system of dealing with fires
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The Whaleback and Roaring River has resulted in keeping the majority of them to an areaunder one quarter of an acre, and requiring only one ortwo men to handle them. Where large fires occur firefighters are recruited from near-by ranchers, stockmen,and lumbermen, and even from settlements outside.Campers are responsible for most of the fires. Each forestranger has an average district of 60,000 acres. The rangersassist in enforcing the game laws and destroying predatory 460 What to See in America animals. They kill yearly in California about eight hundredmountain lions, coyotes, and wild cats. The principal gameanimal in the states National Forests is the black-taileddeer. Probably 15,000 deer are killed annually by hunters, and a somewhatlarger number bymountain lions. Californias firstsettlement was aMission establishedat San Diego in 1769by a little companyof monks, whoseleader was FatherJunipero Serra.Twenty other Cali-fornia jMissions wereorganized during thenext fifty-four years.

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