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Show I Utah Indus- trial Review . Pacific Coast Manufacturer and Industrial News Bureau Now Is the tlmo to buy Liberty Bonds. Help defeat the Kaiser with a flood of gold as the boys at Llio front are overwhelming I hi mwlth a shownr of steel. ' - Ogden sugar factory running vJth 200 hands. H, ' Salt Lake Grand Central nilno shipped 1350 tons last , Bingham mine of Utah Cop- per produced 17,785,000 In Sep- i ember, as against 19,020,967 in August. ' Park City mines shipped $90,-000 $90,-000 ore last week. Sevier Land and Water Com- ' ; pany opens new townslte. State, highway work devldcd . . into five districts. fl 1 Farmington Immenso flowj k of "gas struck here. , i Ifaysvlllo Big "two-county r.io.COO aero reclamation project 1 on hero, j x - Tintio Standard, mine lnstall- , , mik n ing big heating plant. Eureka North Beck mine will drift on 1200 ft level. Payrolls of tlio Utah Power & Light Co. will bo Increased $100,000 it Is declared, as a ro- suit of an announcement nmdo I that employees of the company will receive a blanket Increase in pay of $15 a month each. Previous Pre-vious to the granting o fthe $15 raise, wages paid by the company com-pany had increased 45 percent, according to its officials. National gas produced 217,-884,104 217,-884,104 gallons of gasoline last year. Failure of congressional committees to. agree on oil legislation legis-lation simply prevents develop-metn develop-metn of gas and oil wells. Oil derricks going up near Payson. Eureka TIntIc mines shipped $210,000 ore last week. Alta mine strickes 3-aietal ore' worth $40 a ton. Marysvllle Carload potash mining machinery arrives here. Utah and Wyoming potash beds can supply needs of whole United StatesT Provo Big Indian Copper Co. to enlarge mill here. Salt Lake Report of President Presi-dent American Smelting and'Rc-flning and'Rc-flning Co., shows earnings equal to usual dividend. The war has proved that utility utili-ty companies wero telling tho truth when they claimed increased in-creased revenue was necessary to enable them to meet Increased cost of production. Utah Dofcnso Council authorizes author-izes $80,500 building permits. Salt Lake Woman's building to bo erected on Stato fair grounds. South Myton and Lelnnrt bench lands of 172,000 acres to be watered. When mining is nearlng tho burden of war industries and paying tho burden of stato and federal taxes is no time tl iiapose a new tax. Mason Valley mines, Lyon county, produced 1,050,000 lbs copper. Mining is Utah's greatest, industry. in-dustry. Every Utnhan should fight for policies encouraging to industrial development of all kinds and especially mining. McChrlstnl mines all report good output. Increased concumptlon shows bright future for copper. Escalante Company to water 3040 acres in Garfield county. Women taking positions in mining Idustry. Colorado river area of G10,-000 G10,-000 acres to bo reclaimed. Quicksilver production for 1918 below previous year. Utah mines pay $14,409,100 dividends past 9 months. Salt Laks Contracts lot for Clift memorial building. This is the open season to kill, off all inunner of freak and radical radi-cal legislation and insist on strict economy in public affairs. Park City mles shipped $500,-000 $500,-000 oro in September. Tlntlc, $900,000,, V . - EJk Basin Company will drill for oil north of Utah Lake. "' Taxing Mines and Mining Prop- 1 1 This 1 sa subject of tremen-1 1 1 ' dous interest to tho people of ' Utah as a radical change Is proposed pro-posed by amending the constltu-1 ,tion. Mining men consider the proposed pro-posed amendment a vicious one tlioy say tho most vicious over put up to tho people. Besides assessing mining Jro-. Jro-. perty llvo dollars an acre on its I land, and on all machinery and improvements, it Is to bo assess- ed a multiple of sub-multiple of ( Its net annual proceeds. It would bo hard to guess Just what proposed chango means or how It would effect values of mining property, but if tho mine earned $1,000,000 net annual proceeds, .and tho multlplo' adopted by Stato Board of Equalization was five or ten, five or ten millions would bo added to its assessed valuation. As tho Board of Equalization is appointed by tho governor, ho ho might bo a mining man and favor mines, as tho Board has unlimited power to levy this additional ad-ditional tax or exempt mines altogether al-together from Its effect. v Tho mining companies are now assessed on their lands and Improvemets besides a tax on their net proceeds, and an occupation occu-pation tax, a federal income lax, mid excess profits tax, besides all local taxes. J They pay about two-thirds of taxes of state and after the government gov-ernment has taken its full toll for war purposes, It Is hard to sco any justification for placing an nrbltrary power m hands of n state board for taking balance and driving capital out of mining. |