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Show NEWS BRIEFS Gossip of Persons and Their Doings Stray Pills of Information Gathered at Kan'hiin ami Arranged Ar-ranged for tlx: Kapitl K-ud-l ISounUiul has a molasses mill. Ogli.-n S.VI.UiiO contract lot for first iir.it of big L'nion stockyards. V,f:aver Old woolon mill may be ronv;rti:tl into mattress factory. Utah's uranium - vanidium mines, idle sinre the war, to lie re-opened. ITlah iiroluets week will he observed obser-ved November 19 to 25. Kaysville is i. lie hub of great Utah farming district. Garfield Much work delr.yed here due to scarcity of labor. St. Goon;e City sells electric light plant to A. L. Wooilhousc. Park City Salt Lake men organize organ-ize company to develop alunito deposits. de-posits. Sugarhouse D. & It. G. will erect station with depot facilities for increasing in-creasing traffic. Salt Lake International Harvester Harves-ter Co. may build $50,000 warehouse here. Salt Lake Proposal made to convert con-vert old Beuna Vista race track into municipal park. George Jefferson voted early Tuesday Tues-day morning, then went to Salt Lake on a brief business trip. R. R. O'Xiel, a prominent Cedar City man was a visitor in Milford last. Sunday. ' Marshall Levy of Beaver came j down from the county seat the first ! of the week on a business errand. : i i'-iiyson Suk'ar factory cutting beets at full capacity of about 1.000 j tons daily. California syndicate negotiates for purchase of 20,000 acres in the Cache Valley for colonization. Salt Lake Armour & Co. to erect $l."),nii0 additional to local plant and double its capacity. Zion 1'rado Oil Co. organized to ! produce every kind of lubricating oil and grease. Mayna Construction started on million dollar copper leaching plant of S.0 00 tons capacity. Moab Standard Chemical Co. pre-aring pre-aring to operate its carnotite holdings in Utah and Colorado. Denver and Rio Grande considering consider-ing tentative plans for road from Midvale to Binghani. Cedar City Iron County coal deposits depo-sits uncovered and rich vein awaiting development near here. Rozel Oil drillers near here strike asphalt and indications bright for oil. President D. A. McLease of the "East Antelope Minning Co. transacted trans-acted business in Salt Lake this week. Moab "Big Indian" is new mining min-ing camp near here where construction construc-tion is under way on $100,000 ore mill. Farmirigton has largest greenhouse west of Mississippi with 1,000,000 square feet of glass and employing 60 men. Murray plans extension of lighting system and additional water supply by pipe line from Little Cottonwood canyon. Murray TJ. S. Transportation Co. employes 100 and fs building $3,000 macAine shed an;l shop for trucks hauling ore from mines. American Fork Schools closed to aid in harvest of sugar beets. Factories Fac-tories raise pay 10 per cent, over last year and are still short of help. Mrs. Electa Dorrity, County Recorder, Re-corder, and who has just been reelected re-elected to that office spent a day or two this week in Milford. A. Mayberry and Louis Merriman, two prominent mining men of Eureka, Eure-ka, spent a clay or two in Milford this week visiting mines in which they are interested. i . Surveys to be made this coming summer for Salt Lake Route for line from Modena or Lund, south to St. George and possibly to Grand Canyon. Can-yon. Monday night, Albert Harrington's Harring-ton's delivery horse decided to run away, finishing up on Main Street by overturning the wagon. No casualties. casu-alties. The News is glad to learn that Al-'an Al-'an Hedges, the popular and efficient railroad officer and deputy sheriff, who has been ill in Salt Lake for some time, has so far recovered as to be able to return to Milford. Centerville Company formed to drill for natural gas in old gas beds between here and Farmington with intent to convert gas into high quality quali-ty gasoline by compression. Ogden Planned to make "Og-den's "Og-den's Jubilee of the Golden Spike" m 119 national in scope with permanent per-manent exposition buildings at cost of at least $1,000,000. The political fight is now over and business and industry will be given a chance to catch its breath before Congress begins tq legislate and regulate regu-late again-. Utah is promised a new industry in way of $30,000 refinery to reduce sagebrush to potassium salts. To he located in Salt Lake district. Salt Lake Representative business busi-ness men of city organize Industrial Corporation to secure establishment of new industries and investment of capital in Salt Lake and Utah. Provo Tentative plans completed i for building 7 per cent, grade scenic j auto highway up Mt. Timpanogos I through the Wasatch National forest at cost of $30,000. If our government can say by law what wages shall be, it can also provide pro-vide imprisonment for strikers, and even for a single individual that quits work. A very essential question is whether the federal government should undertake such things Taco-ma Taco-ma Ledger. When Congress meets next it has before it two measures of the utmost importance to the West. Satisfactory Satisfac-tory legislation of the development of waterpowers and a relief measure for oil operation under the Taft withdrawal with-drawal order. Millions'of dollars of capital to be invested await fair legislation legis-lation on these subjects. Mrs. Julia Smithson has offered to head the list of donations to a free public reading room and library, to be housed in the high school, with a complete set of the works of some standard authorv The News will be glad to publish the list of donations to this splendid cause, and will also materially aid in the furnishing o' rending mater. Who'll bo next' Mr. Jack Fullerton of Riverside. California, arrived in Milford on Tuesday and assumed the foreman-ship foreman-ship of the mechanical department of the News. Mr. Fullerton is an A-l man in his line and will give the patrons of the News good service. Mr. Golden, who has been serving in the same capacity leaves tomorrow tomor-row for Southern California, to re-j re-j join his wife and daughter, who j left for the south the first of the , week. The Xows regrets the d'T;'r-'luro d'T;'r-'luro of the former incumbent h'lt welcomes the advent of the new one. i |