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Show Cooler Pad Plant Destroyed, $50,000 Damages According to Forrest Hunter, manager of the U. S. Excelsior Plant which was destroyed by fire during an electrical storm Thursday, 24, the company does not contemplate rebuilding the plant immediately. However, the cooler manufacturing plant, which was not damaged, will continue to operate providing a source of supply of excelsior used in the pads can be obtained. The plant was destroyed when it was apparently hit by lightning light-ning during the storm on the afternoon of July 24, with a loss of approximately $50,000. The major portion of the loss was in machinery and the building Mr. Hunter stated. There "may be some salvage value in the machinery, ma-chinery, but it will cover only a small portion of the loss. No insurance was carried on the plant because it was located In an area where water pressure is very low forcing the Insurance Insur-ance rates to exhorbitant figures, according to company officials. The plant was owned by Forrest, For-rest, Charles R. and Grant Hunter, Hunt-er, under an incorporation known as the U. S. Excelsior Corporation. It Is located at 300 North 800 West street. There was no one at work at the plant at the time of the fire because of the Pioneer Day holiday, holi-day, and It was reported that the entire Interior of the plant was aflame before anyone reached reach-ed the building. Firemen battled the flames for several hours before be-fore the fire was brought completely com-pletely under control. Two machines In the building were valued at $15,000 each, according ac-cording to Charles R. Hunter, and the loss of these together with other machinery and motors, the building and a quantity of excelsior, excel-sior, brought the total loss to close to $50,000. The cooler pad plant, where pads for air conditioning units are made from aspen wood excelsior ex-celsior manufactured at the destroyed de-stroyed plant, will probably be put Into operation as soon as supplies can be obtained. |