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Show I Fire Destroys Shearing Plant Price One of the most complete end elaborate shearing plants in tho Inter-mornt.iin Inter-mornt.iin counfy that ot the Mound 4 I S;u.-ariug company, .burned to the ground at Mounds. 19 miles cast -! Price. The estimated loss is S-j.OoO. The small population, which consists of a Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad agent, his wife and a few sec-lion sec-lion hands, were forced to stand h-lp-I. ssly aside, without water or fire ap paratus available to fight the blai.-. The fire, of undetermined origin, was discovered in tlie center of the roof, about 7:t5 p. m.. and had spread throughout the lumber building at a terrific pace, fanned by a strong March wind. The blaze reached such heights that people In towns twenty-live or thirty miles away reported seeing It. j I |