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Show Utah Indus- I trial Review I Pacific Cot Manufacturer & tndut tria New Bureau. Nov. 12. Eureka Utah Power & Light Co. building eight miles . extension of its 11,000 volt line to serve the Tintic Drain Tunnel Company, which is driving a six-mile six-mile tunnel to drain water from existing mines aud to open up new .H orw bodies. Twenty men arc cm- ployed on this extension. - - TSI Ogden Utah Canning Co. will 'H enlarge plant one-third for 1918. Amalgamated Sugar Co. opcrat-ing opcrat-ing eight plants, in spite of labor shortage. Union Pacific gross earnings for September totaled $11,863,258, an increase of $878,-666, $878,-666, aud net, after taxes, of $4,-277,550 $4,-277,550 a decrease of $801,020. For the nine mouths gross earn-ings earn-ings increased $10,886,232, and net decreased $1,255,635. Centervillc and Utah Lake Oil fields promise wide developments. Precious metals produced in Utah this year will aggregate $900,000,- , 000. Pacific coast shipyards need 30,000 additional mechanics, nrin-cipally nrin-cipally wood and steel workers, who will command good wages and steady work. Salt Lake In order to increase power facilities, Utah Power & Bl Light Co. is installing an addi-tional addi-tional underground cable be-tweeu be-tweeu sub-stations for two miles. On account of the increased power load in the commercial district the company is arranging to in-stall in-stall a number of transformer aults beneath the streets to be use'd in addition to those in the center of the blocks. The com-pauy com-pauy is building a new power line from West Jordan to Wclby, to -H serve the latter town. Thirty men added to payrolls in past mouth. Canneries aud growers have agreed on a profit-sharing basis for 1918. Fillmore has an oil boom with three standard rigs cm- H ployed. 'H Utah sugar beet crop increased this year from 708,000 tons to 1,110,000 tons. The single tax feature of the Non-Partisan' League to ex-empt ex-empt farm improvements from taxation is knocked in the head by their proposition to tax credits and nortgages. The farmer who makes improvements by using his j credit would be taxed on them. I Payson State Bank building here nearing completion. Salt Lake $500,000 building fl permit let for new Deseret Na- tional bank. Will be 14 stories j Payson gets six blocks of street paving. Boston capital to establish wool (Continued on page 5) ( Utah Industrial Review (Continued from page 1) ,, scouring plant at Salt Lake. " First batch of 65,000 pounds open-hearth steel poured at Mid-valcjplant. Mid-valcjplant. f Eureka Zuma mine is now equipped with electric light and power. Ogden Coal now $7.25 Pcrjh at Ogden yards. Advance duetto increase granted fuel men and miners by government. , ' National legislation permitting j development of . western water powers to fullcsj extent would save more coal and oil than all Ufd conservation thedrics ever ad-? vanccd, and yet congress fails to act. . j 1 Brigham City to have "new light plant. Helper Utah Power & Light Co. extending lines at this point to serve the shops of the D. & R. G. R. R and Utah Railway companies.1 com-panies.1 f , Ogden Holly Milling Co. plan$ costing ?250,000 novy in operation. opera-tion. f Ogden Apple crop hard hit by early frosts. Farmers urged to study planting crops next year-so: as to harvest as near as possible Willi' local help. "r-' Food administrators in the western west-ern beet sugar producing states arc receiving letters from farmers urging that an effort be made to import Mexicans, Japanese and negroes next spring for the big crop productions. They dcclare'7 almost to a man, that tinlcss.somc such hope is given Ihcm, next year's sugar crop will be dcV creased instead of increased ovc$ 1917 returns. jh pi Utah oil shale is attracting at;' tention of outside capital. Tremonton Twenty rooms to be added to Midland hotel. i.'' Springvillc Work on sidings) and sugar factory starred here. With unlimited supplies of wood fuel in the forest reserves thc(e. is little excuse for a coal fauiincl It s another illustration oJwOto ish conservation policies, tlit! saves wood and water power td burn coal and, oil. j Lynn Big Sjx mine sending cut gold bars of $300 to $700 each Owing 'to labor conditions lead at $8 is no more profitable than' formerly at $5.50, and many lead' mines arc shutting down. " Farmer members of the Non! Partisan .League are beginning to' ask what is being done with the $16 fee. If 20,000 are enrolled! $320,000 would build a lot of elevators ele-vators and warehouses, i Pulverized limestone is a new industry. Annual demand over a 'million tons. Salt Lake Exhaustive survey to be made of phosphate fields in ilrtef-ntountain region. Salt Lake $50,000 syndicate to be organized here to exploit Wyoming oil fields. To be backed by substantial interests. With the - e .of every commodity com-modity fro.i humble egg to the monster niye, advanced from 50 to 4e'r cent, the 15 per cent advance in rates asked by the railroads looks small. |