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Show UTAH IKIRM1 REVIEW Utah wheat yield is 18.5 bushels to the acre, ' Canning industry is looking ahead, i Ogden canners urged to consider the world trade after the war is over. Record crop year is made In Utah, All agricultural yields in history of -the state will be broken; may set a new aire mark. Indications are that 7,552,000 bushels of wheat will be harvested; large Increase. Moab electric light service is resumed. re-sumed. -, '' i ' ; i Ogden John iHamner property purchased pur-chased by Women's home misisonury society for women's home. Cost, including in-cluding Improvement will reach $30,- ooo. The mining industry Mke the oil Industry Is meeting every need of the government under abnormal condition. Policies encouraging to the expansion of these Industries are all that is necessary to get an unlimited production. produc-tion. . ... ' Utah fruit yield Is satisfactory. Arrangements Ar-rangements mnde for handling r 250 car loads from Pleasant Grove and i Provo B.mch. Salt Lake (A large bathing resort with modern bathhouse facilities Is soon to be established at Beck's tHot Springs. Salt lLake Location at Port Douglas Doug-las of a vast manufacturing plant, to produce all manner of railroad equipment, equip-ment, pontoons tor bridge building, anr! mar.y other varieties of supplies used by' the war department Never was there a time when sugar productlcn was so Imperative In this country and no stone should be left inturned to encourage tue raising of beets and manufacture of sugar in our western states. U. 8. may erect a $30,000,000 steel plant In Utah. The project is in connection con-nection with tho announced plans of the.reorganized Old Capital Petroleum Company to develop the immense Iron deposits of Iron County, to build a rilrc?d from Lund to Cedar City, also al-so develop great coal deposits within I a few miles of the iron deposits and I construct ovens to convert the coal j Into coke for blast furnaces. I Utah is gaining in coal production I at the rate of 3564 tons a day, accord- i ing to figures compiled by the district ! i representative of the United States fuel administration. During the first six months of il9l 8 the record was 2,334,580 tons. Salt (Lake Construction is well under un-der way on $40,000 mess hall at Utah College. Salt Lake (Extensive alterations to cost approximately $20,000 will be made on the second floor of the Vermont Ver-mont building will become general offices of-fices oft-the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, Com-pany, i ... Of course, all kinds of property In Russia his little value and no one invests a dollar there. The bottom has been knocked out of business and the j new fti f socialism and radicalism Is ; on. If you are a socialist or a radical j on any line you ought to move to i Russia and enjoy yourself. There will be an increase this year of at least 20 per cent in sugar beet crop of Sanpete County. Ogden (Work will begin immediate-1 ly upon two retaining walls in Ogden canyon. Salt ILake GO per cent of farming i land acreage In county cleared of j weeds, and has also approximately 250 j miles of highways Bingham A contract for a new Me thodist Church building was let for $6000. Ogden The Utah Canning Company begins season's pack on tomatoes. Working af orce of seventy-five women wom-en and girls. To be Increased to 150. 'Bingham's new opera house will be opened January 1. Salt Lake Shortage of beet sugar Is predicted. Although Utah has planted more sugar beets than in any previous year in history a reduction in the acreage of other states will result in a shortage of 1,300,000 bags in tho 1918 beet sugar crop 117,000 fewer acres of beets were planted this year than In 1917, most of the reduction reduc-tion being made in California and In Colorado. , Utah crop outp.it gains this year. Hay, potatoes and fruit only products to show decrease. The millers of Salt "Lake ' County and vicinity are to sell flour at mill here after at a maximum of $8.93 per barrell on a bulk basis. Prices Reorganization of a new company to take ever the holdings of Price River Irrigation Co., Is planned The new company will be Carbon Water, Land & Power Co., capitalized capitaliz-ed at $.00,000. Salt Lake A resumption of activity 4n wonderfully rich mineral region in Henry mountains far south and a little west of Green River Is reported. Rich olti properties again are being worked; railroad is needed. Eureka Some h!gh grade lead ore Is now being mined from the old Sharp property in Tooele County... |