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Show i 1 w W' W til ( if 9& 1 BUILDING RAZED. Flames towering several hundred feet in the' air and visible throughout the Parowan Valley, Val-ley, completely -demolished the; .feed ' plant of the Southern Utah Dairy Coop Co-op Thursday evening. Damage estimates esti-mates ran as high as $60,000. r Photo Courtesy of Jim Robinson (Flames gut Pasmvan feed mill the biggest in the valley, but in recent years, the drop in livestock feeding has cause the business to decline. One thing that caused some excitement during the fire was that at least ten 30-gal-lon drums of oil were stored there and several of them exploded ex-ploded to keep the firemen at a distance. It is doubtful if any attempt will be made to replace the building at the present time Mr. Topham said, as that business bus-iness does not justify it at this time. rainfall had the entire area well soaked up, and it was also a quiet night, with the flames going straight in the air much of the time.. This helped keep the fire from spreading and all danger of its spreading to nearby buildings build-ings were soon over The big building, containing a reported report-ed 50,000 board feet of lumber was all but gone in less than an hour, and the only need was a watch kept by firemen during most of the rest of the night. Dewey Topham, manager man-ager of the cooperative, stated that the loss might be as high as $60,000 with some insurance insur-ance on it and its contents, He also added that if the fire had been in the fall, there could have been up to 55,000 bushels of grain in storage at were way low in grain, the bins, but that now they The building had been used only on a curtailed basis for some time, and it had been closed for almost a week at the present time. The business busi-ness was at one time, one of I A fire of undetermined origin ori-gin last Thursday night practically prac-tically destroyed the feed mill and grain storge facility at the Southern Utah Dairy Cooperative, and for a time threatened the other buildings of the cooperative, as well as other buildings in the area. Discovered shortly before 10 p. m., the alarm was turned in by George Lamb, Parowan City policeman. Starting in the office-storage area of the big wooden building, it soon turned it into a raging inferno in-ferno with flames leaping high in the air. Within 45 minutes the building was all-but all-but burned to the ground, with the efforts of the Parowan volunteer fire department, on hand quickly, being turned to saving the store and freezer department of the building and seeing that it did not get o any other nearby home or a trailer court. The quick response from the fire department from Cedar City with two fire trucks was very much needed and appreciated appre-ciated by the local firemen, and four hose lines were kept on the burning building at all times. "If this fire had occurred under any other circumstances much more damage could have resulted" according to Albert Orton, local fire chief Two days of almcst steady |