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Show UTAH IK-1 It is now assured that government will construct a series ' of monster dams to store the flood waters of the Grand and Green rivers. Ogden-4A second train of twenty six cars of horses shipped from Og-den Og-den during the week to Montreal, Canada, for British army. From 800 to 900 carloadr of JElber-ta JElber-ta peaches will be exported by Utah this year. This year's harvest north of Salt Lake In Utah, Jdaho and Wyoming, will be greater than the combined harvest of 1916 and 1917. , Increased rates are imperative unless un-less utility companies arc to be driv-i en into bankruptcy or service great- j ly impaired. J Brigham City's new v.ater system is nearing completion. Salt (Lake The Lincoln Highway is nearing completion. During the coming winter Utah and Wyoming mines will be called on to supply plants east of Missouri river with one or two train loads of coal daily owing to deficiency there. Never was it so necessary for every coirmunlty to encourage " industries i snd navrolls by holding down taxes and eliminating all forms of freak and (radical legislation. Vlrg'n Dixie Oil Company is ready to shoot five wells in Virgin field. North Opden 119 carloads of peach es record here for the season. Salt Lake T!i9 construction of the military highway to bring thousands of army motor truckB through Salt Lake on their wav -om east to Siberia Si-beria and Russia, is predicted as a military necessity of the immediate future. - Salt Lake Utah coal producers to form a corporation by request of the federal government Fort Douglas A new warehouse of quarter ' master's . department nears completion. Production by the mines of Tintic this week totaled 153 carloads of ore. The . Yankee Consolidated has struck fjome $60 to' $70 ore in one of the upper levels.' - - ? . Eureka 'Work of sinking a deep shaft for development of the Apex Standard Mining Company located In the eastern end of the district starts. Alta Shipments of ore the past week from the South Hecla totaled about 600 tons of ore ranging from 1 $30 to $40 a ton. J calling strikes to force demands, in face of the nation's peril has reached 1 its limit and President Wilson has 'issued 'is-sued an ultimatum In the (Bridgeport cases which will have a wholesome effect ef-fect . Salt Lake-4A fine green house is being erected upon the University of Utah campus. The cost is $3500. Salt (Lake The widening of sidewalks side-walks and laying a conduit on Regent street for wires for a lighting system is now in progress. The Tintic Standard declares a $4,000 dividend. American Fork lEmpire . Mine is now shipping ore. Logan Native copper was seen near Bear Lake shores. Shaft sixty feet on Rich-Cache shows 44 , percent red metal. . An Indication of Increased development develop-ment in western mining is shown by the fact that as compared to one electric elec-tric smelting furnace plant located west of the Mississippi before the war there are now eight in operation and three more under construction, resulting result-ing in enormously Increased smelting of ores in the west. The (Lake View has shipped a total of 280 carloads, or 114,000 tons of line lead ore. It paid out In dividends divi-dends a total of $137,000. A campaign for development of the Colorado river basin, adding to irrigated irri-gated area of the west about 3,000,000 acres, of which something like 800,-000 800,-000 are in Utah lands whose richness rich-ness and climatic conditions are the most favorable to crop and food production pro-duction at a cost of any where from $50,000,000 up, will be taken up in ttie State legislature. J When the war cripples begin to return from France there will be at least one grent American industry striving to find a man's size place for them in preference to others and that is the mining industry. Manganese deposits in Death Canyon Can-yon west of Tintic was inspected. It may yield 200 to 400 tons a day. The i government is in need of this ore for tempering steel for war purposes. I Pro-German activity, if there was any, in the sugar beet districts of I Utah and Idaho, was in the main un-I un-I successful so much so that the In- lerinuuuuuii resmu is me only region re-gion In the United States where the sugar output this year will be increased in-creased over last. This is the substance sub-stance of a report made recently to the federal government by Perry G. Holden, notf'd agronomist, who has sent to this territory by the Federal government to investigate. |