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Show UTAH INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Industry has made Utah unusually unusu-ally prosperous the past year and the legislature should now be careful to hold down taxes and pass no i legislation averse to the state's industrial in-dustrial and commercial development. develop-ment. January 8 Park City mines ship 1165 tons of ore valued at $45,000 past week. Salt Lake 22 Utah mines in 1916 paid dividends amounting to $24,-529,430. $24,-529,430. Buhl Farmers in and around here have sold $1,000,000 worth of seed during the past year. Bingham Two carloads of machinery ma-chinery for new laundry arrived here. $97,000,000 is the estimated output out-put of Utah mines for the past year making an increase of $42,000 over 1915. Bingham leads all camps with production of 13.000,000 tons. - Ogden Union Pacific R. R. Co., awards contract for 52 miles of track from Wamsutter to Point of Rocks. There is about as much sense in the limiting of the size of trains in Utah over improved tracks as there is in limiting the size of a load a farmer can haul over a road he has just payed and paved. American Fork has first ore mill running in forty years and scores of men are working. Utah factories output for 1916 is $140,000,000, an increase of $40,-000,000 $40,-000,000 over -915, 18,000 people are employed. Utah coal production for 1916 was 3,621,935 tons, an increase of 500,- 000 tons over last year. 3511 men employed. -- Provo Herald"- A greater payroll means a greater Provo." Payson $10,000 ice and cold storage plant incorporated here. Delta Chronicle claims an intense future for that place $1,250,000 to be spent. Utah employees share in big Christmas dividend distributed by the Mountain States Telephone Co. This action of the company is in line with that of other big corporations corpo-rations which have reaped a generous gene-rous harvest during the past year and gladly share a portion of it with their employees. Salt Lake Franchise granted for electric railroad of Little and Big Cottonwood canyons. Provo County commissioners j asked to call bond election to build , 50 miles concrete highway through Utah county. Government surveyors report the : discovery of half million acre coal field in Kane and Garfield counties. Provo New Orlander Mining Co. to operate in Spanish Fork Canyon. Salt Lake Carnegie corporation considering request for $25,000 West Side Branch Library. Bond issue likely for city improvements, including paving park and park sites. Total assets of Utah banks and Trust companies is $77,323,942.29, 1 ,an increase of $23,978,670.02 in I the past two years. ! It would seem that the problem before congress of a national board j of regulation for railroads in place ; of 45 slate commissions, and a com-; com-; pulsory arbitration law should be ! passed at this session. The public-is public-is weary of continual uneasiness on this question. J j j Salt Lake City chosen as central : distributing point for Aultman & Taylor Machinery Co., of Mansfield. Ohio. The plant will be built at a cost of $25,000 and is to be ready for occupancy by March 1. Erection of the building will change western distributing center from Portland, Oregon to Salt Lake City. Logan Evans & Sons Ice Co., lets contract for 10-ton ice plant to Po-catello Po-catello concern to operate next spring. - Delta Full acreage is secured for establishment of proposed sugar factory. Salt Lake Installation of block signal system and construction of Pico-Santa Ana branch are chief improvements im-provements provided in annual budget bud-get of Salt Lake Route. Entire budget bud-get for year provides expenditure of approximately $5,500,000 on improvements im-provements and extension. Ogden Utah Power & Light Co. arranging to extend system to Ogden Og-den Packing & Provision plant. ' Logan may secure establishment of a pea cannery. Bingham & Garfield Railway increase in-crease capital itoek from $6,000,000 to $10,000,000 in view of future improvements. im-provements. With the price of oil shooting skyward sky-ward and refusal of relief measure for California oil men by Washington politicians, it would be wise fon Congress Con-gress to take steps toward passing a workable legislation for development of waterpowers on government land, in the interest of conserving coal and oil supply. Deep Creek Construction of new railroad here helps business, corner lots sell for $250, newspaper starts and 40 houses and tents built over night. New 50 ton mill is working in American Fork Canyon. Park City 1800 tons of ore shipped shipp-ed from here one week bring $72,-000,000. December dividends for mining companies in U. S. total $40,000.-000. $40,000.-000. Park City Electrolitic zinc plant to be in operation here early in the year. Silver City $40,000 is net yield for 75 tons of ore from the Tintis mines. Amalgamated Pioche Mining and Smelter plant to be enlarged. General consensus of. opinion is that no sweeping change in tax laws will be made at coming session of legislature. At the last election, by a vote of four to one the people voted vot-ed down the tax reform bill designed to make a goat of mining properties. proper-ties. Utah wool firings record price of 31 cents a pound. Government withdraws 70,000 acres of old shale land in Utah. Salt Lake Railroads of the "inter-mountain "inter-mountain country and Pacific coast intend to ask the coming sessions of the legislatures of Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Ne-vada, California, Oregon and Washington Wash-ington for measures which will aid the railroads in preventing accidents at grade crossings. Le Grande Young asks franchise for electric railway to Cottonwood mines. Brigham City Leroy Eccles and associates will build electric line to Bear River. Utah Utah-Idaho Sugar Company Com-pany has announced that they will construct a new railroad from Bear River City to Garland during the coming season so that the 1917 beet crop can be handled and thus save the farmers a long, hard pull. Logan Agricultural college asks $161,000 from state legislature. Logan may get much desired pea canning industry in 1917. The average legislature will spend more time passing game laws for a handful of sports and pothunters than it will to promote industries and bringing capital into the country. coun-try. Delta Sufficient acreage signed to insure the new Utah-Idaho sugar factory here. Salt Lake U. P. System to in- sure employees against death and sickness. Unprecedented demand for Pullman Pull-man cars in mountain states over holidays was met by sending on extras ex-tras from the east. West Jordan Two story brick state bank building nearly complet ed. Ogden Meeting here January 22 to promote farmers co-operative warehouse. Logan Republican Completion of Interurban railroad makes Logan Mecca of Northern Utah. Lehi Banner Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. paid farmers $2,000,000 for beets on December 15. Marriott James Hewett, farmer here produced 782 bushels of potatoes pota-toes to an acre netting him $800 an acre. Utah Mining is as legitimate as any other business, and the records show that, investment considered, is as good in giving returns as any other legitimate business. Elk City Eagle and Blue Bell mines sold to Californians for $30,-000. $30,-000. Lehi Pacific Mill resumed work last week handling 65 tons of ore npr rlnv Development of Utah's water power pow-er is a great benefit to all industries in the state and should be given all encouragement possible. Politicians have quit raiding the national banks and in past two years they have increased their resources re-sources four billion dollars. Railroads Rail-roads would be building all over the country if they had the co-operation of the government instead of political politi-cal raiding. |