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Show Jensen Hour Mill Destroyed By Fire The flouring mill owned by Maurice Mau-rice Jensen, one of the oldest mills ;in the state, was totally destroyed by fire last Saturday night. The origin of the fire has as yet been undetermined undeter-mined but it is believed that either lightening or spontaneous combustion combus-tion was responsible. The plant was valued at about $9,500, and Mr. Jensen Jen-sen only had $4000 insurance. The fire was first discovered about 11:30 and by the time the volunteers arrived on the scene the fire was beyond be-yond control and efforts to save the building or the contents proved furtile The building was a frame structure and notwithstanding the fact that there had been much rain it was easy prey for the raging flames and was soon reduced to ashes. In addition to the loss of the building and the valuable machinery considerable flour food and feed went up in smoke. Stored in the building1 was hbout 2000 pounds of flour, 1000 pounds of germade, 1000 pounds of graham flour, 500 pounds of rye flour, 40 bushels bu-shels of unground rye, and a large amount of wheat and ground stock feed. The stock loss was fully covered cov-ered by insurance, Mr. Jensen stated, some $4000 being carried. K. Roper, who has been acting as assistant miller at the plant, had been at the mill all day and when he left everything was alright. There had been no fire in the mill all day Mr. Roper stated. The mill, which was propelled by water, was erected in 1894 by a company com-pany of Gunnison citizens. It was incorporated in-corporated under the territorial laws. Several years ago Mr. Jensen purchased pur-chased control and has since been operating the mill.- With the plant is a valuabel water right and the water was used to propel the machinery. mach-inery. Mr. Jensen when seen yesterday, stated that he had not made any plans for rebuilding. He will await the coming of the insurance adjusters adjust-ers and later may decide to rebuild at the old site. |