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Show ALL RECORDS JTfo S" fTri Ff7' P fP TT I L u V U e if 1 lUASHbS . ,The rafe which was in (he office of the Weber stake when the Erclcs building was destroyed by fire a month ago was taken fiom the iiim today and the contents found to be totally destroyed. The record books and official papers were found to be charred so completely as to render t the writing aud printing absolutely il- leslble. I This safe was found on top of the boilers and 1 's believed that because of its location it was subjected lo gieate." hep.t than the other safes In ' the building. When It was opened by Secretary Kt Nouteboom the contents weio represented by a pile ol ashes. With the, destruction of these records rec-ords all of the oarh history of tho stako disappears and cannot be replaced. re-placed. The records of stahe organizations, organ-izations, appointments, ordinations, etc., can be replaced because of the fact that trjinscripts of l hose are Kopl in the offices ol the general church authorities at Salt Lake. The bpohs which were dqstioC'l contained minutes of meetings held from tho time the stake wns established estab-lished and in fact all of the earl history his-tory of tho 'Mormon church In Weber, county. |