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Show Crystal Salt Co Plant Wiped Out Salt Lake Fire, said to have started when a transformer blew out in the south end of the structure, completely wiped out the three-story plant of the Inland Crystal Salt company near Saltair at 7 o'clock Friday moiming. Damage to 1 the plant and the equipment was estimated es-timated at $500,000 by I. A. Clayton, Jr., general manager of the company. G. M. Stratfon, manager of the plant, first discovered the fiames shooting I from the south end of the giant structure struc-ture and immediately phoned the alarm to headquarters at Salt Lake. Recruiting help from families that live contiguous to the plant, men, women wo-men and children formed a bucket ! squad and attempted to halt the blaze. Their efforts proved futile and before the city equipment arrived tlo entire j frame structure was ablaze. The county fire department, which ' had just completed placing the fire at ! Bingham under control, was called to the scene, and both departments played play-ed water on the blazing structure, but It had pained too much headway to be quenched. Three homes south of the plant were damaced to the extent of $300 by the intense heat. Mr. Clavton said that fifty men are employed at the plant and they will be p;it to work rebuilding the plant. The outlay was completely cove-red by insurance, in-surance, he stated. I |