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Show :.UTAH PUMICE-STONE ; The News correspondent at Fillmore, Fill-more, Millard county- "A Bird" sends the following under date of the 6th inst. : It may interest some of your read ers "to know that President Quigley of the .Chicago Pumice company, a large concern owning a 300,000 plant in that city, has made arrangements arrang-ements with Mr. Joseph E. Ray (the discoverer of vast beds of pumice stone near Coyote Springs, this county) whereby that gentleman expects to ship to Chicago 3.066 tons of pumice this year. A number, of hands are now engaged getting it ready for shipment and Mr. Ray has assurance that a like amount or more will be shipped yearly for an in: definite period, Mr. Ray gave this information just as he was starting out to inspect the Marysvale reservoir, previous to a meeting of the company to be held in Salt Lake City on the 12th, The reservbir is . a success, and the different irrigation companies in Sevier -Vally are already competing for the use of its water. Irrigation water is becoming a serious question right here also, as very little snow is in the mountains and the days are warm. Frost has killed the apricots, but other, fruit is1 safe as yet. Deseret Evening News. , |