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Show THE UTAH WEEKLY VT INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Salt Lake, The Union Pacific taring 1917, spent for improvements ' .and betterments approximately $24,- QOtjjOOO. All of new double track i - v;. ytjt ia completed and ia in use in Wyoming and Kansas. All remaining remain-ing to be finished being the second ! tunnel on 'Sherman bill, which will be ready some time in the spring. Because of demands for locomotives ia France, England and Russia, the U. P. was able to get, out of its orders or-ders placed last year, only twenty Mikado enigaes and ten out of the 3-1I-2 type. None at the switch ' engines vara received and there are ' fivs 1-10-1 engines yet te be dellv- l CM aad'firteaa. Mikado engines in .. aetfUra.te'tae'flftaM htalleta.The - sssmme ( last year's expendltnres 1 ' waeVfor general improvement at the Vales Pacific Railroad te better 1 -aeev e the' seeds of it patrons. The oil fever has struck Utah and it bids fair to equal the Wyoming excitement. Farming activity in Utah and Idaho Ida-ho Is. breaking, all records due to unprecedented un-precedented prices of all produce. . salt Lake Some remarkable specimens spec-imens of ruby silver ore carrying values estimated around f000 a ton,1 were' brought here from Rose b4 mining district In Box Elder v County. ' 9 W Salt Lake bankers are working to ' get a branch of the federal reserve tank., i Lehl-pThe-sugar factory ended a ueeeesfuf run for the past season. Moab Several lots donated " for new school building site. - Mining Is probably, Utah's greatest Industry and any measures that discourage dis-courage its development, automatically automatic-ally Injures the state. An advance or 4 cents In sliver or 35 cents a hundred hun-dred in lead means 11,000,090 a year in Utah. Provo JBvei rthlng ready for the erection of a big cannery here. Utah leads silver producing states for 1117 with 14,816,300 annees. St Oeerge Leaehlig slant' is to be Installed to work tallLnga of the Silver Reef mine by parties who have purchased tailings. Payson The State Bank is now Installed In Its new building. Salt Lake Information received here of the government plan to supply sup-ply work when possible to the small manufacturers, injured by changed industrial conditions. Logan Sabotage was practiced on a building erected here, union carpenters car-penters were suspected. Idaho recently re-cently convicted men for advocating tthe destruction 'of property on the same lines and placed ttaera In the penitentiary in ahert ardor. A few more convictions wenM -have a good effect' npon lawlessness. Fuel shortage' grows worse and congress -oenttnuea the1 delay of wat-erpower wat-erpower Legislation' permitting- needed need-ed developmental this time. - l Logan ;Maaager Joseph .Qulnney, of the 'Amalgamated Sugar, Company says that Cache County will produce a banner crop of beets In 1918. The signing of contracts is now In progress pro-gress and farmers show a.wllllngnesB to Increase acreage in all parts of the yalley. , Gunnison Work Is being rushed on a new sugar factory here. Silver moves up 4 cents an ounce which means $560,000 In ono year to Utah. A 48 barred oil well was brought In In Spring Valley. Government operation of railroads as a war measure is one thing, government gov-ernment ownership In peace times Is another. The loss of taxes .under government ownership would be a hard blow to the city, county and' state treasuries. Salt Lake Work will stop on Parley Par-ley Canyon link of the Lincoln Highway. Salt Lake The local branch of the National Biscuit Company, has 702 stars in a servlc flag. Ogden Johnson Stevens Company Incorporated for 1000,000. They Intend In-tend to conduct a merchandising business in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Montana and Wyoming. Salt Lake Fish eassery U to be built on the south shore of Utah Lake, to operate next spring. Wiggins, Wyoming, Courier If the farmers expect to enter the political field through the Non-Partisan League Lea-gue or any other political organization, organiza-tion, the first thing they must learn Is, that they, as an organization, will have to expect the censor of the public press on the weak points of their platform, and refrain from the autocratic stand, that all must bow to their will and strength. No political politi-cal organisation has hlthertofore attempted at-tempted the munllng of every Industry,' In-dustry,' and certainly this newly born organisation cannot expect to escape the 'suspicions of censervatlxe business. |