Forest "Test" Fire Set

About a year ago I ran across this little article in an August 25, 1916 edition of the "Silver Lake Leader":

"Baker-- Setting fires in the Minam National Forest to keep his lookout men in training is the unique method inaugurated by Forest Supervisor Ephraim Barnes. A brush fire was set near Sanger, at a point visible to lookouts but to none of the other fighting force. Precautions were taken to keep rangers and lookout men ignorant of the cause of the fire, and when the smoke was first sighted word flashed by the nearest lookout to the fire chaser at Eagle Forks, bringing a man to the scene within two hours."