| Show PROGRESS IN vr AU CITIES I 1 4 ii IS MARKED I II r I I t 1 t M Improvements Under Way in Various Districts Tell of Growth of Industries A ARE E BUSY s Harvesting of Bounteous Crops Promises Increase in Volume Volume Volume Vol- Vol ume of Business the past week the announcement announce DURING ment of ot a a. new urban interurban In line to connect the chief city otty of ot the state tate with Its greatest mining mining- camps emphasizes em em- 9 a steadily increasing population don tion and the great material progress o 01 of Utah The Orem lino IIno also alao announced Its Intention of ot extending Its Hs southern Bouthern terminus from Spring to Spanish Fork while tho the work of Ct building the Ogden Ogden Brigham lino line from Box Elder der county Into Cacho Cache valley Is going going- on j apace The Tho Tho Cache knitting knitting- works celebrated Its tw twenty fifth anniversary last week It started In mo modestly with a house rental cf 10 a month today It Is one of the leading Industries of the state The knitting Industry of ot Utah no now pa pays s 's out annu annually Jl for fer labor manufactures manufactures I tures cheap raw stuffs stutts Into a ai I year jear ear and ships outside tho the state every twelve months Cache Cacho valley Talle also Is beginning In a n. small wa way tho the construction of ot fanning tanning mills which promise to be adopted generally over ever the state bringing Ing about abou t cleaner cereal seeding by iY the elimination of ot noxious weeds Creeds Milford lIlford Beaver county Is Ia Jubilant t over the completion of ot a OOOO schoolhouse schoolhouse school school- house on an Imposing site above the town Recently It completed one of at the neatest mo modern ern hotels in the state The new reservoir near there and tho rapidly rapid Increasing population of ot great stretches of ot farm tarm lands In the vicinity are making the hub of the tho valley to to grow like a new bay tr tree c. c Other T District r Progress jw AB a Price also has started excavating for tor a handsome new pew brick and stone stano stoner r f schoolhouse of twelve rooms to cost for the structure alone It will willbe be located on the public squaret square Duchesne Is starting u up a So new crami cream cram t i cry er- which promises to bring consider consider- f n a able ablo l cash each ach month to the to county count i e 1 I se seat t of the fire new nev county in Uintah basin TV Following the lead of Ogden which successfully bored artesian wells In u Ogden valley valloy east ef of the city and added f to the tho municipal water supply Brigham City il officials have purchased a tract of or land in Mantua Mantu valley alley PI Pipes es sunk Bunk J to no greater depths e th than I 35 36 6 feet teet h have ve J already brought ht forth additional water Deeper wells are arc being driven en and the f. a expectation Is that the city supply will willbe r be materially increased The proposed new dam to tho the south of Mantua valley alle r proposes to furnish ample water for more than 1000 acres of bench lands lying cast east cf of ham Dds City Returning from a trip Into Box Elder county a Logan Los merchant reports business In the Bear River this year rear seems to be good or at least the merchants of the tho towns of Garland Tremonton Fielding and Collinston have ha bread smiles on their faces and andare andare are arc optimistic over o the outlook for tor good J f business bUsine 8 throughout hout the remainder of tho the season Already Alread the harvesting of the wheat has begun Man Many of tho the i. farmers expect from 35 36 to 60 GO bushels of wheat to tho a afire acre re The Tho beet crops In and near Garland never locked bet bet- bet bet- I f ij ter ler One ne thousand acres more beets beets' L t- t have been planted this year than In any n other year and the outlook has been so good that tho the factory people have hav been enlarging the capacity of ther tho the r Garland factory factor Several eral largo fields of If sugar beet seed are fast tast ripening In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Bear Dear River vall valley C It looks as If It the work of experimentation has leas proved preyed i u conclusively cl that Utah con produce her own 1 own sugar beet seed s 's Ir Beet Seed Outlook i F I II Mark Austin of tho the Utah Idaho Sugar Sugart t company reports that the beet seed B fields at Saratoga Garland Id Idaho ho Falls I i t t- and Sugar Ct CUy now embrace about n s acres and as a rule rulo the outlook I Is ls excellent ex- ex r Cx Heretofore Utah has been dependent dependent de- de L. L pendent upon Germany German for see seed Reports Half ReI Re- Re lf I ports from the beet fields In Utah areL aro are L J that the they are arc In promising condition i jut r I but in some districts begins to show r the nee need of ot the thc showers which were copious last year rear at this time and J 1 Y which produced the splendid results r rr obtained In the In Industry f. f Harvesting extensive dry farm fields I In the tho vicinity of Lehl Lehi and out In Cedar v valley to tho the west Is on In full tull blast n It is estimated that the wheat crop I will run from fifteen to as high as ast t forty bushels to the acre i Along thoi tho the I i West shore of Utah lake lak to r forty sh Ie bushels IB is predicted edict d irom dirom from a nur num num- her ber of ot tho the most scientifically handled o II farms In North Cedar valle valley tho the outlook out out- II look Jook Is exceedingly bright Last year car t t f Cedar valley yielded 2000 bushels on f Its dry dry farms farms At a the grasshoppers have I t. t been rather destructive Ono One outfit I 1 s with catchers In a few days a s 's bagged I I nearl nearly a ton tak taken n from hundreds of or Oil acres of ot grain t o i Money In Strawberries Stra 1 Utah count county strawberries this seaon sea sea- Eton Jon on brought the owners about SOO to tot toj j t n the car This line of fruit raising raising- has x t been signally successful and William J M. M Rolance Roylance a a. wholesale commission p Merchant of of Provo Prove urges the Utah Uta i 1 farmers to plant a n. greater acreage e of ot this thle luscious fruit which which grown In I Utah Utah la to unsurpassed I t fi Some of the bench dry farms In uintah basin arc are promising yields Ields of ot forty lorty or better batter bushels hels of Turkey urke Red L I wheat to the tho acre Self binders are are employed em- em Noye In a acre farm of thriving wheat near Jensen Grasshoppers cut- cut tins own down alfalfa and sweet plover lover r fI fields In parts of basin aret are arc t l hurtle hurting g the tho extensive e beo bee Industry In that part of the state The failure of t 4 the he Plants to flower Is almost stan p 3 ing InS out many of the apiaries Dow Down in Millard county the tho dry farmers n r farmers are arc up to their ears In their a bet prosperous fields Some farms num- num t I oer ber nearly early 1000 acres and will yield J fifteen bushels of rye rc and fifteen to thirtY five bushels of wheat to the ther f I c r- r a acre r this year ear Along with the grain diversified farming Is g getting a strong foothold Ono One enterprising enterprising- Fillmore farmer last week started to o ship chip fat tat hogs to market In three carload lots The hogs weighed to each Potatoes Repay Cure Core In a a. recent potato contest teat at St. St George the prizewinner raised an ex excellent excellent excellent ex- ex quality at the rat rate a of bushels bushels bush bush- els to the tho acre e He says his success s was due ue to careful cutting of at the seed and planting one to tho the hit hill hllL eyo eye up eight Inches deep about February 1 Ho lIe did not Irrigate until the tho plants were ready to bloom He grew the prize potatoes on a city lot Other contestants contestants contestants con con- did almost as well Tho The Imm Immediate advent 1 of crop mone money to the farmers throughout hout tho the state and tho the prosperity of the mines and smelters and high wool sales are aro factors factors fac tac- tors which argue certain added volume to all lines of business froth from now on until the harvesting of the tardiest sugar beet crops on the tho fringe of ot win win- ter An eastern authority says that most moet recent Information on cereal crops In Inthe inthe the tho northern hemisphere as aa promulgated promulgated gated b by International Institute of Agriculture As credits Ital Italy with 6 quintals of wheat this year ear or 19 3 r nor or er cent above last year Switzerland quintals or 1 per cent above bove 1914 United States with 58 quintals or GG 66 per cent above last ast years year's production and Japan with quintals or 94 per ner cent In In- In crease creale A quintal equals 3 32 3 3 2 bushels BarIc Barley production for for 1916 1915 gives Ital Italy an Increase of ot cent over 1914 the v ir Tt United i CO 1 per 1 I L i no LUU U o States lilies 1 i per vel cent en increase increase BO BOan an and Japan 67 per pcr cent Increase The Tho oats crop In Italy Is la 6 per cent larger arger Switzerland 98 per cent and In Inthe Inthe inthe the United States 1 9 per cent Increase ae Acreage Conditions are generally favorable for tor or tho coming harvest In Bulgaria France Great Britain Britain and Ireland RumanIa Rumania Rumania Ru Ru- mania and nd Canada Tho wheat acreage acreage acre cre- creage age In Canada Is given as hectares or acres equal to 53 per cent over that of 1914 bH Argentine wheat yield Is given as asI quintals or 47 9 above that lof of 1913 The ga gain n In n oats oate Is per cent and In lInseed per cent J. 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S ohe BC Co says U The uThe markets market's recover recovery from the de decline decline decline de- de cline caused by the sale of stocks from Europe began bos-an this week and relieved of this weight some buoyancy has started to develop It will be bo noticed that the first signs of recovery appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap peare the war stocks The Tho former boom oom In April It will wUl be be remembered began In this same ame way wy b by b u hero here herand and md there of ot war war stocks stocks This This game ame ame was then a new nen one and the pub pub- 1 lic nc Ie or at nt least the conservative part of It It looked with some some skepticism on ona ona ona a bull market beginning with miscellaneous miscellaneous laneous speculative specialties The Tho Boston Doston News Bureau sa says s 's It Is difficult to exaggerate the excellent ex ex- excellent effect upon business generally In this country of of Improved Improved conditions obtain obtaining Ins Ins- In the he steel stee Industry They Ther have Inspired the entire business business community community corny com com- with with a feeling of ot confidence which must Inevitably nc be translated Into constructive c action sooner or later Measured u by the tho yardstick of bank clearings and railroad gross revenues domestic business Is marking time rather than th going forward However the fact that wo we are aro shopkeeper for forthe for tho the world orld cannot be permanently overlooked overlooked overlooked over over- looked and sooner or later the tho sight ofa of oC ofa a n bulS- bulS bulging bulging- ng till will speed up tho the machinery machin- machin machin ery cry of domestic con consumption and pro pro- |
