Show UTAH UTAI OIL PLANT STILL BURNING FIERCELY I SaIL Lake No Nov IA fire remark able ablo tot 01 the amount of oC work It Is causing ns as well as for tor the tho time rt 10 to get It Cully control broke out at the plant of the Ulah Oil company compan Fourth Vest between Eighth and NInth North streets at atI I 1210 10 this morning At noon today seven big tanks of oil and wax were still sending foith great groat columns of flame and smoke with every In I that It would be long pURL past nightfall before the last of oC the stuff had gone liP Ill In flames The Tho firemen are arc powerless to stop the lie tire fire and are arc simply bending their energies to prevent the tho of the tho fire Tue Tho fire was was caused by a leak In the tho still whIch caught fire In a few Cow 3 the flames spread to the seven big tanks six of which con tamed barrels or gallons each of oil oi 01 wax and one of oC which COli contained pounds or of refined wax As AR soon as the lie alarm was turned In No anti Assistant Chief Fitzgerald hurried to the scene Before the department lent arrived how however ever eel the tho had destroyed the still valued at t 2000 the at rind the valued at f OO Tue flames lighted up the surrounding and the foot foothills lulls hills to tire the easl Shortly after tho fire broke out the thc wInd commence 1 from the northeast and for a time It Il was feared that the tho names might spread to the Oregon Short Line c and shops shop it of the UlO railroad of water to lo play on the buildings Later the wind changed an and 1 came from the tho the firefighters devoted their attention to preventing tile the from reaching the shops or of orthe the TaIm SprIngs Iron works which arc immediately to the north of oC the tho oil plant In this work the firemen were successful and up to noon toda today the flames hind had been confined to t tile seven oil oll tanks the three buildings of the plant At noon toda today great columns of black smoke and flames were pouring from each or oi the tanks As the smoke traveled north It was so dense that It was almost impossible to see a foot through It or for any person to travel a few feet reet through It The o of the thc seven tanks 8 were ati as follows One tank of oC pounds of re relined lined wax valued at G 5 cents a pound tank of gallons of refined oil valued at 17 cents a gallon tank or of barrels of crude oil valued at 8 a barrel four tanks lanks barrels each of oC distil valued at 8 3 per bar barret ret rd There wn wa but little insurance on any of the destroyed red Chief Gore went to the scene of oC the fire this morning and remained for some tulle time Ho He gave It as hl his opinion ion that the fire would not nol burn out for several hours at al least |