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Show TWO UTAH COMMUNITIES LOSE HEAVILY BY FIRE June 24th tho plant of the Beaver Woolen and Flour Mills was swept by fire, the loss amounting to $100,000, and the newspaper report stating that "Beaver, without a fire department, wa3 unable to do any effective work in combatting the fire." Tho next day fire wiped out a business busi-ness block in Richfield, the loss being placed nt over $50,000, and being blamed to ''partial failure of the supply sup-ply of city water." Those two calamities nnturally sot us wondering if Cedar City is prepared pre-pared to avoid like accidents. It is certain that the city does not want to lose $100,000, nor even $50,000, in any such disastrous manner. In going over ov-er the matter to some extent, it is found that the city has good water pressure, fire hydrants installed to cover all the more thickly populated portions of the city, and a supply of hose and other equipment, the only element lacking In preparation being tho organization of a volunteer fire brigade and the drilling of members of Buch an organization. A few fire drills, ladder climbing contests and like useful activities, might not be out of order in our progressive community. com-munity. Anyhow, such property losses, hitting hit-ting not far away, set the average citizens to thinking along fire-fighting lines. Tho Beaver fire hits Iron county coun-ty especially hard, since n majority of the stock of the Beaver Woolen Mills was held in Cedar City and Parowan. A heavy stockholder in the corporation makes tho statement that the Iron county investors are the real losers by tho fire, since they put their cash into stock against the old, wornout plant, which tho new and recently destroyed de-stroyed plant replaced. |