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Seedlings & Time. Smoke boiled 10,000 ft. into the sky; the fire raced with the wind through a deep-timbered basin towards the Boole sequoia (world's third largest) and towards the steep gorges of the Kings Canyon, as deep in places as the Grand Canyon. "If it jumps down," said Geil, "we're in trouble. That's mankiller country. If we don't catch her here, there's no stopping her. She could go for miles on both sides of the river...
...last-ditch firebreak. His orders: the crew must be prepared to hole up in the cliffs, to live without supplies, lay through the fire if trapped,* but "tie up" the basin. They did. Last week a ranger and three Indians with 1,200 ft. of line clambered into Kings Canyon (which drops 4,000 ft. in two miles) to keep the fire from shooting along the canyon's wall. Hemmed in, the fire came at last under control. Loss: 17,000 acres of timber. The fight against the fire alone cost...
PRIVATE POWER is hoping to score another victory in the Northwest. Following the Federal Power Commission's decision in favor of Idaho Power Co.'s three-dam plan for Hell's Canyon (TIME, Aug. 15), Pacific Northwest Power Co. (a combine of four companies) asked FPC for licenses to build at Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley, some 30 miles downstream from Hell's Canyon on the Snake River...
...Secretary of the Interior Julius A. Krug proposed a high-level (602-ft.) federal dam with initial capacity of 800,000 kilowatts. Idaho Power Co. wanted to build three smaller, privately financed hydroelectric dams (initial capacity: 783,400 kw.) at Oxbow. Brownlee and Hell's Canyon sites, all of which would have been flooded by the Government project...
...high that they would deter new industry. Said Idaho's Democratic Congresswoman Grade Pfost: "There now can be no doubt that this Administration believes what is best for the power trust is best for the people." Growled Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse: "The Hell's Canyon decision will prove to be the Dixon-Yates deal of the Northwest...