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Show I Utah Indus-I Indus-I trial Review Pacific Coast Manufacturer and Industrial Nows Bureau Sept 9th. Salt Lake In view of scarciety of laborers recom-fl recom-fl mendatlon made that district road supervisors bo authorized to employ women to clean tho highways of weeds at $2.00 per day. ' o Yield of 1018 BUgar beet crop In U. S. estimated at 6.350,000 tons. This Is 280.000 tons moro than crop of 1017 as officially reported.-. HuntsvUle 1,200 head of ehcpo shipped east from here. '. Moroni Sugar beet crop here H? In excellent condition and prom- lees Heavy yield. Estimated thattonago this year win dou-ble dou-ble that of 1917. If.thcre ever was a time when absolute business should be ap-piled ap-piled to public affairs, It is right now when tho nation Is at war. ISSSSI BBBBBJ o . Ogden Shipment of peaches U carload lots to cast begins here. Between 40 and GO cars J will be sent In an effort to increase fur-ther fur-ther the food production of the state and to relieve the railroads xjfextra burdens, motor express lines "will bo established thruout tho state, according to Arch M. Thurman, secretary to the Utah council of defense, fl o Irrigation projects in Utah, covering a total of 5,140 acres of land are contemplated In three water applications filed with the state road engineer. Salt Lake Trout to be plant-ed plant-ed in Fish Lake reservoir. Formingtbn Davis county's labor situation .becomes serious. Workers wantef. o Ogden Utah Cereal Co. rush-lug rush-lug construction work for its ad-dltion. ad-dltion. Capacity of plant will be doubled. The peach crop of Utah ex-cells ex-cells greatly that of last year. The price per tyuhel realized last year was 7Gc, Vhite this year peaches are selling 'at.fl.00 per 1 bushel. The crop from the Provo bench alone is valued at $225,000. o 1 War necessity measures are betas; taken advantage of by agitators and socialists as a. -argument for foreign European H -forms 6f government ownership H omto this nation as a permanent ytKcy. BBBSr BBSS o H A copper production of 61,- '74, 788 pounds In the second quarter of 1918, as compared v KMtf--1 v y with 40,788,171 in tho first quarter quar-ter of this year, is shown by tho forty-first quarterly report of tho Utah Copper Co. o Payson Seven blocks more paving to be laid this summer. Utah Bends lambs to eastern market. Estimated 400 carloads have left this ten I to ry in the past ten days. Milford Farms on the Beaver Bea-ver bottom in Beaver county and near Milford are to bo supplied with additional irrigation water by a now company which files articles of incorporation. 0 St. George Tho Sutro interests inter-ests of San Francisco aro looking look-ing into oil possibilities hero and representatives were most favorably fav-orably impressed. Oil men looking over Moab section. Salt Lake Bamberger car shops to be brought to Salt Lake Temporary structure is planned until after the war, when modern mod-ern buildings will bo constructed construct-ed here. o Now is tho time to commence to plan forl919 sugar beet planting. plant-ing. The government has shown shown its willingness to plant increased acreage to re-'lleve re-'lleve sugar shortage. o There is a movement on foot In tho west for tho improvement of the thousands of bridges and culverts along tho roads. There are hundreds of miles of good roads, and most of these roads can be used for motor truck traffic -with tho exception of the ' bridges. o Salt Lake After a long period of preliminary negotiations, tho Standard Oil Shalo Co., a corporation cor-poration comprised mainly of Utah and Idaho people, with W: O. Kay of Salt Lako as general manager, Is ready to begin development dev-elopment work on an extensive scale. o Mldvale Utah Iron & Steel Co. increases capacity. Company Com-pany Improving Midvalo plant by expending about $250,000. War Board approves. Second furnace ready by November; output then 4,000 to 5,000 tons. Salt Lako Utah Light & Tran. Co. granted increaso in street car fares as havo been hundreds 'of otbar tranctlon lines in tho Unlttd States, to meet increased costs. Eureka Shipments of oro from mlnesof Tlntlc district week of August 30th, amounted to 800 tons, valued at $240,000. "This Is a hell of a time to strike In America," Bald an American Am-erican soldier In Franco, who Just received Croix do Guerro and a silver star for risking his life to safe that of a wounded French officer, when told of labor troubles in shipyards and factories In tho United States. Wo express the same Indignation which every man in tho U. S. army and navy feels toward strikes. ' |