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Show The Utah Weekly . 0 Industrial Review '.' September 2, Aggregate produc-. .iTtion of the mines of Utah In the first half "of 1918 shows a considerable reduction as compared-with ;tBe corresponding cor-responding period In 1917. The dividends paid In that period this year amounted to $9,306,570, as compred with the first six months of 1917 of $15,242,845, or a do-crease do-crease of $5,936,275, Ogden. Five hundred unskilled laborers are wanted from Weber county, Ogden. Men and women ' are wanted In the orchards of Weber and Davis counties for peach picking. pick-ing. Provo. Bids submitted for paving pav-ing three blocks of Academy avenue here. Ogden. Utah Cereal company making preparations for Improvements Improve-ments that will double capacity. Yellow Journals, political offlco seekers and their unthinking readers read-ers and followers, have made a special spe-cial effort to show that big business Is not doing Its patriotic duty In the war and Is playing an entirely selfish sel-fish game. No better German propaganda pro-paganda than this could be spread 'to create class hatred and discontent. discon-tent. Salt Lake. Contracts lot for completion com-pletion of barracks for men of Utah training camp of University of Utah. A total of 387,000 acres or Utah land were opened to entry for agricultural agri-cultural purposes In the year ending June 30, 1918. Tliero remains In this stato 19.914.9G2 acres of unsurveyed agricultural land; and 34,487,908 ncres have nheady been suivoyed. Salt Lake. Beet fields of Cache Sugar company reported in oxcollent condition and grinding of beets to start bout October 1, . Large part of the grain crop In Utah has bee harvested and threshing' thresh-ing' and cutting of second crop of alfalfa proceeding rapidly. , Use of sugar beet tops for ensilage ensil-age purposes promises to become general among farmers. Silage from beet tops last winter proved to be equal to the best alfalfa bay for 'cattle feeding, according to farmers l who tried tho experiment. Sugar boots aro said to produce about two-thttds two-thttds ns much to nun go In tops as as they do of roots, and with an average av-erage crop of IS to 20 tons of beoti to tho acic, about twelve tons ot ' green beet top will bo harvested. Twelve. tons of t'ns silage U declared de-clared to hne ti" same feeding value val-ue 09 twety tons of tho beat corn Ml- j age, which constitutes a maximum ' crop from on ncie. Ogdon. Because they wore unable un-able to get men, about twelve wo-' men h.wo bo n placed at wotk In tho Ogden yar.U of tho Denver & Hlo Qrnndo. railioad and nio giWng satisfaction. Virgin. Dive oil company planning plan-ning to shoot f e -lls. Aftor a long p i iml of Inactivity, tho Red Bird Mining company, with extensive holding In tho 1'aik City district has ie umod operations.) Contracts let foi continuing main tunnel. Increases In util ly latos nto ns Inovltoblo as lia - been lnci eases In wages and mnteiials. With the metal manufacturing plants working now on $100,000 .worth of war ordeis and $3,000,000 worth more In sight for this year, with the metal mines, mills and smelters working steadily to meet demands, and with nearly $300,000 a month In government money being distributed thtough military channels chan-nels from Fort Douglas, war prosperity pros-perity has como to Salt Lake not only to stop but to grow. Salt Lake. New construction of hospital to be established at Fort I Douglas. " ' Irrigation projects embracing 5,140 ncres of land aro to be started start-ed in Utah. If any citizen wishes to see what mining Industry means to Utah ho need go no farther than tax records. If It were not for mines other taxes tax-es In the state would bo doubled. This simply shows the Impoitnncc ot measures nnl conditions encouraging encourag-ing to mining, Jjdustry. 'Salt Lake. The establishment ot giant blast furnaces; the opening ot ' coal mines that will equal the Utah Fuel company operations in magnitude; magni-tude; the erection of Immense cooking cook-ing plants; the" building of a- 20-mile 20-mile railroad and tho development of southern Utah's wondorful beds of lion oro nro presaged by n visit of Thomas F. Kecley, a prominent Chicago capitalist, to Salt Lake City. Mr. Keelep Is making a close-up study of properties and tho moans necessary to successful operation ot a great project, and to substantiate facts laid befoio tho war Industries board as to availability of iron for war and Industrial purposes. Tho development of the steel Industry horn will mean tho brlncinc of by product plants to the Salt Lake valley. val-ley. It will mean the establishment of Industries that will go a long way In making tho United States truly independent of tho comniercla. Aemistfy ot the Germans. Dallas nro designated as agencies to execute theso loans, which aro to be made to livestock raisers who aro experiencing great difficulty in their operations owing to. drought conditions, condi-tions, though cattlemen from othor districts aro not excluded from tho benefit of section 9. Tho War Finance Corpotntlon has also effected an nrsangement for extending flnnnclnl assistance to tho canners of New York state. |