Arizona republican., 1908-12-08
FIRE AT ROOSEVELT
 DAMAGES CEMENT MILL
EXPLOSION OF AN OIL TANK MAKES A NINE THOUSAND
 DOLLAR BLAZE.
It Will Cause Little Or No Interfer. ence With the Work of the Con tractor.
tractor.

A telephone message was received by The Republican from Roosevelt last evening saying that a fire oc- cured at the cement mill yesterday morning about 9:30 o'clock doing dam age estimated at 5000 as follows i hoist S50OO, lumber 5000, miscella- neous S2OOO, labor for repairs S1OO0. It was estimated that it would take about two weeks to repair the damage done.
 The origin of the fire was the eXplO- sion of a tank containing fuel oil which is used in the cement mill. The mill was closed down Saturday and Sunday and as a result the oil was very thick yesterday morning the night temperature in those parts hay ing tendency to cOngeal things. Yes terday morning a small fire was built under the tank to thaw the oil and it was not noticed that it's natural exit had been left open until it had gnited the oil in the tank and the explosion followed. There was no personal in jury in connection with the explosion or subsequent fire.
 The fire was first reported in Phoe- nix by telephone yesterday morning and later the phone was out of com mission for a time Engineer L. C. Hill was interviewed in the after noon concerning the fire and before the above facts were received. He said his information was meager. but such facts as he had he gave explicit ly. He said the oil tank was in the kiln room and close to the kilns. He had no knowledge of how the explo- sion occurred nor when but supposed it was about o'clock
 There is but d small amount of woodwork in the building but there was sufficient to lead the fire up the side hill structure, eating out most of the woodwork in the crushcr room From there it assailed and destroyed the wooden clay and rock bins. which however were small affairs. then burn ed part of the trestle over which the cars run to dump in the bins. The hoist house. outside the mill proper was badly damaged but there is an other hoist on the ground said Mir Hill, which can be quickly put in com mission. The crushers are probably damaged somewhat but how much has not been reported here.
 The grinding end of the plant was not injured and there is considerable stored clinker on 'hand, ready for grinding as well as a lot of stored ce- ment, so it is not believed the damage to the mill will interfere materially with the work of the contractor.
 It has been planned for sometime to shut down the power during the holi- day vacation in order to lengthen the penstOck to take care of two addi- tional water wheels and generators thus increasing the resources of the power plant. This could only be done by a short shut down which would of course necessitate stopping the cement mill as well as the operations of the contractor It is believed though that the cement supply will last until this planned shutdown occurs so there will be no damaging results from the fire except the damage to the cement mill itself. At the worst it could only has ten the shut down by a very few days.
 Mrs. James Hubbard told Mrs. Jones that Jim never growls since she uses Folger's Golden Gate Coffee. TTaT. trroaar, F,,.