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Show WEEKLY REVIEW Utah's Industrial News of the Past Week Terse-ley Tabulated. Milford At a depth of two hundred hun-dred seventy-five feet, a good flow of artesian water has been struck on the high school property, insuring insur-ing ample supply. Milford Work of doubling capacity capac-ity of Salt Lake Route roundhouse by addition of ten stalls, nearing completion. Track yardage also increased. in-creased. Malone Farmers of this section and Reed, in Milford County, combined com-bined in good road building and are on last lap of highway to Beaver county line. Latter county will take up work and connect to Newhouse state road. Salt Lake, September 21. Reports state that the Salt Lake Route has been authorized to build a branch line into Uintah basin, Provo to be the junction of the new road. All the steel rails and ties will reach Wasatch at an early date for the Alta Cottonwood railroad, and engine and ore cars have already been ordered. Active construction work will soon begin on Utah's largest drainage enterprise, en-terprise, the Corinne district in Box Elder county. A plan is now on foot to evaporate the water and form solid salt highway on airline route to the Nevada line. Uintah County will vote on $50,-000 $50,-000 road bonds next November. Salt Lake City Local capitalists plan to construct railroad in the Deep Creek mining district and connect con-nect with the Western Pacific at Wendover, a distance of about forty miles. ' , Eureka Single carload of ore from Gemini brings about $14,000. Lincoln Highway Association recommends rec-ommends expenditure of $350,000 to build twenty-two miles of permanent road between Redding Springs and Granite Mountain in Tooele County and save fifty miles on route. Copper . production for 1916 will exceed all past records. Out of twelve companies producing total of 846,032,648 pounds, first eight month of year, Anaconda produced 221,500,000 pounds, nearly twice as much as nearest competitor. Utah Power & Light Company has an annual payroll of $1,629,200 and employs 2,424 people. Oil wells are now being sunk in Utah. If politicians in congress will quit playing politics and pass legislation legisla-tion under which private e?.rUal will invest in power development enterprises, enter-prises, millions of dollars will be spent on this class of industrial development de-velopment in this state. Ogden The Amalgamated Sugar Co. is preparing to cut 500,000 tons of sugar beets and will pay $5.50 a ton for the beets or $2,750,000 to the farmers in addition to its regular pay roll.. In the Ogden district the beets will run about fourteen tons to the acre. Logan According to reports Utah will have a fine crop of potatoes this year. The wealth being taken from Utah mines at present is enormous. Salt Lake The .Utah Power & Light Company gets three years' contract for lighting city. The state directors of the naval consulting board of United States preparedness issue report showing Utah could furnish all the mineral needed in manufacure of war weapons. weap-ons. Los Angeles and Salt Lake capitalists capital-ists are preparing to develop irrigation irriga-tion possibilities of Emery County and irrigate 30.000 acres of land with waters of Huntington river, at an expense of $3,000,000. Coalville At special election for the city vote to sell municipal light plant which has been a loosing venture, ven-ture, Utah Power & Light Company Com-pany will probably take it over and is now building high-tension line to the city. American Fork James W. Brown from here and Grant & Chipman of Salt Lake City buy entire holdings of the Stewart-Harding Sheep Company Com-pany comprising 10.500 sheep and 35,000 acres of land for $250,000. Experts of Utah-Idaho Sugar Com- j pany estimate the beet crop at 10 : per cent better than last year. Large additional acreage has been planted ' in this state. Weber County lias. thirty-five miles j of hard surfaced roads. August was a great dividend i month for holders of mining stock. I Plans completed by the Union Pa-i Pa-i ciiic system for expenditure of more I than J 1 .i'uiii.Hfi.1 in addition to suras I already spent in Echo canyon. Mor- irau Coumv. reducing grades nr. 1 I curves. More than ? -1 . .0 '' o to be spent all top.-xh.--r. |