Show Cheerful Aspect After several months depression both in finances and labor the outlook for increased activity in various parts of this section of the state has a cheerful aspect The road work in Washington county is to be he started very soon while work on the road over Kanab way will also soon be in oper oper- nUon The grading surfacing and oiling of that stretch of Route 91 H between Cedar City and Winn Hollow we are given to understand understand understand under under- stand will be commenced along about the middle of March or first of April It is also announced that considerable road work is to be bedone bedone bedone done from the Iron Beaver-Iron County line to the Buckhorn Flat Fat and anda a 8 lot of work is to be undertaken this summer on the Cedar Can Can- yon-Midway yon Summit road All AU of oC this road work will employ many men the payroll mounting mounting mount mount- ing into hundreds of dollars monthly practically all of which will circulate in this section In addition to the large amount of road work to be done and completed this year there will also be considerable development work in the mining industry The Uncle Bim Dim mine in the western part of the county expects to add three times the number of men now employed ed and will also place a number of men at work as soon as spring opens on a n road from the mine to the railroad a n distance of eighteen miles over which the ore being mined this winter and to be mined in the future will be hauled for shipment to the northern Utah smelters Reports arc are current that the Columbia Steel will add a goodly number of men to the force already employed at the Desert Mound the increase to come along about April 1st The General Steam StearL Corporation of Salt Lake City owning large iron ore holdings coal and power sites in this section is reported as saying that dul during ng the coming season a n unit of a n smelter willbe will willbe willbo be bo erected near Iron Springs an electric power plant will trill be erected erected erected erect erect- ed in the Cedar Canyon and a n large amount of development work will be done in opening up the bodies of iron ore owned by the corporation This will necessitate n a large force of men olds Hiple owning farm land in the Cedar Valley and Mid Mid- king up a large acreage and drilling a number of welts welly t DC De done by local workmen entirely The city ity contemplates considerable work in the sewer line and already one contract been let Jet that will be commenced as soon as the frost is out of the ground sufficiently There will also be considerable man and team work in grading streets in various parts of the cit city and hauling surface gravel In the building line in Cedar City plans are being drawn for several homes and additions to many all aU of which will keep employed employed em em- em- em plo ed for a n considerable length of time many of our local common common common com com- mon laborers and skilled carpenters and bricklayers ers Yes the outlook for the coming year ear has a 8 cheerful and encouraging encouraging encouraging en en- aspect |