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Show UTAH IHOUSTRIAL' REVIEW ' Ggden Approximately 57,300 acres of sugar beets are being grown this year under contracts of the Amalgamated Amalga-mated Sugar Company In Utah and Idaho. Activity In Uinta Basin is reported increasing. Shale and oil sand plants are to be erected and drilling to be conducted. Ogden Rebuilding of Huntsville road is to start soon. ' Mining, c41 and water power development devel-opment are three of the west's great industries on which the nation absolutely abso-lutely depends in its hour of need and should receive every encouragement encourage-ment at hand of our legislature. Salt 'Lake Work of fostering sugar sug-ar beet production in Utah is being undertaken In earnest this year by various sugar companies of state in co-operation with the Department of Agriculture, Agricultural College and County Farm Bureau. Plantings are being made in 46 localities and hope is to rival shgar beet seed industry of Idaho. Ogden Construction work on the new milling plant to start soon. To include an elevator made up of twenty twen-ty concrete tanks with a capacity of 500,000 bushels, a four story warehouse ware-house and a six story mill, the whole to cost about $750,000. Salt lLake iPark City mines ship 1 1100,000 ore a week. ! Salt iLake iBuilding the new road to Rangely oil field and the big drilling drill-ing rig is being moved in. . Salt 'Lake Stress is being placed upon a matter of siloing beet tops by the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company. It is hoped that many of the beet growers grow-ers will silo tops from this, year's beet crop, to be fed to cattle during win-i ter months. Orangeville lEphraim highway, iZ. miles long, is to be completed this year. Cost estimated at $150,000. Utility companies in .ill parts of the country are Being granted rate in-! crease to enable them to meet abnormal abnor-mal costs of operation and maintain efficient service so necessary to our industrial system. Salt Lake .Price Con., will soon complete a new shaft. Hoisting of ore j from triple conipartmert is to begin ! this month. j Salt Lake 'Sugar Beet crop in Utah j Is in good condition. There has been ferae re-planting. , Suit Lake Rails for the new Utah rnad now being purchased. It Is to be built between Lund and Cedar City. Milford A company is incorporated incorporat-ed for oil developing in Millard County Ogden $1T),00 worth of improve-. improve-. ments at the plant of the Utah Can-Inlng Can-Inlng Company, is being completed. Salt Lake A shortage of sulphur, an essential in the production of mu-i mu-i nitions. may mean the opening of sul-' , phur dPposlts in Utah and Wyoming' and cause the establishment cf a war ; industry in Utah. L'rieh-ini City $22,600 rent net was ewarded for the construction of water works here. Anx-ricHi! Fork mines and prospects are pushing new work The ' South Park mine will start shipping high ; grt'dp -ore, containing copper, It- silver and gold, assaying $25.0 a ton. ! With low price for copper and the greatly increased freight rates. Utah chapter of American mining congress i fears curtailment of the output of I low grade mines woich will hinder operation of smelters and thus re-j re-j duce the output. , Salt Lake April production of Utah Copper Company shows 16.0n,-8S;; 16.0n,-8S;; pounds compared with 16,330,000 In March. Park City Ore shipped from here on both railroads in January, February, Febru-ary, March and April, 1917, aggregated aggregat-ed 34,081 tons. This year shipments rmounted to 40,5;:?. Production by the mima of Tono-pah Tono-pah the past week totaled 10,279 tons valued at $174,713. Salt Lake War garden crops In Fait Lake this year are expected to total in value more than $1,000,000 more than triple the sura obtained from last year's crops. Sugar today is one of the lowest price food commodities' and In spite of the campaign against sugar beet raising carried on by agitators, sugar factories have struggled to maintain tonnage. Salt Lake The Rochester mines ship $21,000 ore, covering production for the last half of May. Salt iLake The new working shaft at Silver Shield Is now enUrely timber tim-ber and work will be started on two different places from the main tunnel level where good air now prevails It is expected to start breaking ore at once on the back vein. With an average Increased produc- J tlon of 60 per cent in all livestock for last year, and the probability that the . j Increase will be nearly as much this year. |