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Show RICHFIELD, UTAH, HAS NOVEL INDUSTRY Sawmill in City Limits Converts Overgrown Over-grown Shade Trees Into Useful Commodity. (Richfield Reaper.) One would scarcely expect to find lumber as one of tho manufactured products of a city the size of Richfield Rich-field and located in a rogion not adjacent ad-jacent to a native timber growth. But Richfield is a lumber producer to quite an extent. In tho northwest part of the town thore is a sawmill running every day except Sunday. Tho raw material furnished comes from the old shade trees that have for many years mado tho town look like a young forost. Tho manufactured manufac-tured article is not as good as the Oregon Or-egon or native pine, but it Is being put to many uses. New outbuildings, fences, stables and corrals are to be seen in many parts of tho city. Some of the lumbor goes out of town for these and other purposes and rjood comes in more ways than one to all concerned. Trees that had grown so tall as to be a menace during some of the high winds that prevail here in tho summer season, are got rid of, and tho lumber from them Is mado useful. Parts of our streets that wore always in tho shade and where the mud was novor dry, now get tho sun, and after storms soon becomo dry again. Employment has boon furnished in tho removal of tho trees, cutting them Into lumber, buildjng of the new fences and corrals. In tho place of the trees removed wo have usually planted others of a much better bet-ter variety. |