Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-06-13 | Page 3 | Water Pipe Burns in Prairie Fire near Potash Plant

WATER PIPE BURNS IN PRAIRIE FIRE NEAR POTASH PLANT Sparks from rom tho the engine of a Saltair train yesterday afternoon started a prairie fire fre near nCr the p potash lah plant cast of Saltair damaging the wooden pipe line lne the source of the thc water supply for the employee living liv- liv Iv ing ng near neal the plant plant The The pipe line lne which cOnes conveys the water from rom Monticello spring to the thc potash plant llant a i distance of a about out a quarter mile mie burned for or a l distance of about 00 feet The intense heat of the past few ew days das has dried the vegetation about Sal Saltair lr to such an extent that incipient prairie fires ires tres cu caused cc by sparke from Saltair locomotives locomotives locomotives loco loco- motives are of frequent occurrence