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Show Utah Weekly Industrial Review i APRIL 21. Ogdcn Work on gns well started here. Much ngltatlou Is ou for removal of government's set price of J 1.01 1-8 on Bilves as it is claimed with present world demand that Mlver would probably go to $1.25 nt onco while others say It would climb to $1.50. Anwny It would bo a big help to tho mining' Industry nt'thls time. Utah hasappioxlmatoly 20.000,0.00 of undeveloped public laud awaiting water and labor. Ogden. Weber Normal School to Uaye ?200,000 gymnasium. Mining Js onu of Utah's groat industries. in-dustries. As taxpayers and employers employ-ers of labor tho mines aro Utnh's greotest ascet ,nnd piosperlty In the mines means prosperity for tho state. Woik to begin Boon on KlchflcUl Fish Lako road. Exp.fnsion of the Uintah Basin irrigation ir-rigation project .to" 80,000 acres will bo made this year. Utah sheep camp tenders aro to agree to $60 a month and shearers 12 1-2 cents a head without board. Prospecting for minerals In Utah, which has been practically eliminated eliminat-ed during the war has begun again with renewed activity .according to I. C. Thoreson, United States surveyor survey-or general for this division. , Ogden. Farmers of Hooper district dis-trict signing large sugar beet acreage. Junction City. Modern hotel la being planned here. Salt Lake is to have third annual fat stock show. According to officials ot Capital Petroleum, Fuel & Iron Co., a $1,500,000 of bonds have been placed in the' eastern' market In securing of funds with which to build 32 miles of railroad from Lund station on tho Salt Lako Itouto to Cedar, City. Work to start In American Fork canyon, soon. Recant political control of utilities has proved beyond question that private pri-vate management is tho more ec'on-omlcal, ec'on-omlcal, efllclent .courteous and progressive pro-gressive In its deaUngs with the public. pub-lic. With living rates it will give far the best service. ( r Roosevelt. Packing plnnt for Uintah Uin-tah Basin being incorporated, , ,Green. Rvcr. Real cstnto ectlvo here. v"oik stnrts ou well No. 1 of Gus-tavenson Gus-tavenson Oil company In Diamond Fork canyon. A prominent Nevada wool grower says: We have had a fair winter in 'Nevada and our sheep are in good shape. To mo they Beeni to bo carrying car-rying tho best crop of wool we havo ever grown. The wool Is long and clean but will weigh less than last year. According to estimates, tho dividends divi-dends paid In March, 1019, by 28 U. S. mining and metallurgical companies com-panies making public reports amounted amount-ed to $12,000,43,4, as compared with $27,240,511 paid by 35 companies in March, 1918. The Congress of Mexico is In special spe-cial session to tako up problems connected con-nected with oil production. It Is to bo feared that if tho American congress con-gress Is taken ns an example of what may bo expected It bodes no good for tho oil Industry to have the Mexican politicians wrestling with the subject. sub-ject. The oil Industry has been developed devel-oped In spite of politics. j Salt Lake. Three contracts aggregating aggre-gating $373,709.07 awarded for Utah highways. It Is estimated that out of the entire en-tire Uintah basin last year about 330,000 fat hog3 wero shipped to Salt i Lake.t n The greatly Increased contracted beet crcago for this year and tho large cash revenue to be derlvoJ j therefrom by tho agricultural territory terri-tory of tho mountain states and the general impetus Inspired tertby Is an Interesting contract ot the industrial apathy prevailing In other parts ol our nation at this time. Yernal. Heat packing plant (o b I established Bert, . , .... '-,, Roosevelt. Planned to heat school I building by electricity. I Provo working ror cement plant. Replies of manufacturers to qucs- 1 tlonnnlre: Got tho war nnd all that J has grown out ot It out of tho way V and business will go nhead. That I moans finish the penco treaty and get 1 the government out of business. j Gunnison. Sugar plant hero near- j ly done. I Fifty years ngo tho 10th ot May. J the last spike was driven at Promon- j toiy. Utah, In tho first trans-contln- j emal railroad. It was, a famous ov- I ont lu Pacific const history. j Salt Lako. Eniploers of street railway system, aie asking Increased pa nnd five nnd ono-lmlf day week then wo wonder why cost of living U high. j Dip past week foi the first time In tin hltoiy ot labor movements tho i I.o.il Legion of Loggers met m open ( seshlon with tho Salem, Oiogon, Ceti- ( tral labor Council to promote volun- tniv mediation of nil dlffcionccs bo- tween employeis nnd employes with- , out tosort to strikes. , |