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Show Fire Destroys Shearing Plant Price One of the most complete and elaborate shearing plants in the inter-moiHitain inter-moiHitain country that of the Mounds Shearing company, burned to the ground at Mounds, 19 miles east of Price. The estimated loss is $25,000. The small population, which consists of a Denver & Rio Grande Western -railroad agent, his wife and a few section sec-tion hands, were forced to stand helplessly help-lessly aside, without water or fire apparatus ap-paratus available to fight the blazj. The lire, of undetermined origin, was discovered in the center of the roof about 7:45 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-five or thirty miles away reported seeing iL |