Show FIRE DAMAGES UTAH STATE FISH HATCHERY fire starting from a heating stove stave 11 used ed to heat a can of paint did oter 1000 damage to the utah state pasti hatchery building at thursday momin ng 1 approximately a million eggs in the process of incubation at the tim time e of the fire were saved according to tend ants at the hatchery who said the loss in eggs will not be very great it was wag estimated that less than 10 per cent of the spawn was destroyed by the conflagration stripping of 0 fish had lust just commenced at the hatchery and only a small number of eggs had been placed in the troughs there were no f ish fish destroyed the cause of the blaze Is attributed to overheating of a can of paint one of the attendants atten dents built builta a fire in ahmat C er stove in the building early in the morning for the purpose of heating some paint that was to be used in painting the rearing troughs the fire iliad had been made less than ten minutes when the root was ablaze on discovery of the tire fire the ville valle fire department was summonte summon td but the blaze had bad made such rapid headway beanway that little of the building was saved the hatchery was a frame aframe structure which burned rapidly ra pidy the loss was covered by insurance and it Is thought the state will re replace plate the structure just as soon ae a possible american forte fork citizen |