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Show Utah Indus-I Indus-I trial Review Pacific Coant Manufacturer and Industrial Nows Bureau Aug. 2g. Utah's potato yield is 1G2 busaols per acre. Utah's peach harvest cstimut-ed cstimut-ed at 808,000 bus. against 735,-000 735,-000 bus. in 1018. Ogden Union Pacific Co. to rebuild ice houses, recently de-stroyed de-stroyed by fire. Lack of production in all lines and the tendency to still further reduce production by unrcaBon-able unrcaBon-able shortening of hours while still firther increasing wages is the nightmare of Industry to-day. to-day. Provo Tax lovey for city and and city schools shows increase H of 1 mill Salt Lake Work to start on additions to Franklin and Grant H schools. H Utah road fund for 15)19 is $10,000,000. Includes federal, 1 state, and county appropriations. H Princo Consolidated Alining H Co. planning to go after ore on H '-lower levels. TIlno one of most H consistent producers in west. B Western Union Telegraph Co. H will rebuild thousands of miles H 'of telegraph wires in mountain H division of company and will H op'en 45 new offices in Utah, H Idaho and Montana. H Ts It not time the business B elements of the community get H Into a fair and square frame of H mind toward public utilities and H allow them to mk money the H same as any other business. , B Provo Plan to reclaim 1000 B acres nt Skipper Pay at cost, of B $20,000. B Utah's dry land spring wheat B crop abandoned or cut for hay. B Lava Hot Springs State to B commenco erection of fine new W audltatorlum at once. IPayson shows unusual building build-ing nctivity since first of year. CO homes erected during season. ' Salt Lake Great activity in Diamond Fork expected. Success Succ-ess of Gustavcson Oil Co. Incentive In-centive for others to begin work. "Socialistic demand for governmental gov-ernmental price regulation will not bo heeded they should not be. The law provides means for curbing profiteers, but wc must accommodato ourselves to fact that basic prices, for produce pro-duce and'labor and manufacturers manufact-urers will remain comparatvlely high for a'lang time, perhaps until the world 1ms rerovered 'from war, possibly permantly." The Union, .Indianapolis. Lava Hot prings experiencing season of great building activity act-ivity in splto of high cost of building materials and labor. Eureka Ore shipments from Tlntic district for week ending Aug. 8 total 125 cars. Park City smelters increases force. Mining conditions Improving Im-proving dally. Road-building program of nation present year totals $375,-000,000 $375,-000,000 in expenditures. Utah credited with $10,092,794. Alta Work to bo resumed at West Toledo mine. , Salt Lake First shipment in annual movement of sheep and lambs to East to start soon. The milk wagon drivers want $55 a week and six hour day. The railroad fireman want increased in-creased wagos, automatic feed-oi-s to fire the engines and two fireman on the large, engines to work. Higher "wages, less work, and shorter hours is tpe slogan. The cost of high living has only started if this program of decreased de-creased work and production is continued. Salt Lake Joseph Murphy, Co. Incorporated for $25,000. Ogden Plans under way for air patrol of forests In near future. fut-ure. Ogden Canning of tomatoes begun by number of local plants. . .Metal output of Utah seriously serious-ly retarded during first half of 1919 because of lower priceB and labor trouble. State's output out-put of gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc in 1918, valued at $86,-1 017,597, Bhowed a decrease from $99,328,150 in 1917. , Salt Lake Mountain Girl Mining Co. incorporated for ' $250,000. There is no longer any argument argu-ment against tho sugar , beet, every community that can grow them is anxious to get the in- dustry started. Alta Louise Mine has "bright I future. Promising showings of pay ore encountered in several piaes, Salt Lake Bank deposits' here show total increase of $5,-098,000 $5,-098,000 over last year. Contract for construction of highway from North Ogden to Utah Hot Springs let tor $100,- ' 413.25. $00,325.03 contract let for highway from Roy to south city limits of Ogden. Park City Utah-California Exploration Co. incorporates for $400,000. x Utah Metal & Tunnel Co. reorganized re-organized and will soon resume operations on property at Bingham. Bing-ham. Topeka State Journal: "Tho big packers have become tar-1 gest for attack of both tho producers pro-ducers of livestock and the consumers con-sumers of meat If packers had not made a world mkuret for American meat, does anybody think that stockmen would bo getting anywhere near tho prices thjy are gettlug today 'for their product? The consumer consum-er may hava a caso, but not the producer of raw material. |