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Show H I UTAH WEEKLY IN- f DUSTRIAL REVIEW B Industrial ItvcordN fur tliu l'n.st Week H Hhow Activity In All 1'nrtH of (lie B Htuto; Fight Agulnst Freak lit'gU- B Intlon anil for Lower Tnes Nit'dcd B to Encourage Industry. i March 2C. Tho principal Amerl- m can copper producers hnvo agreed to M, furnish copper needed for the army B and navy during tho coming year at B 10 and a fraction cents n pound, H about one halt of tho current market H B Cuban rebellion cuts Island's su- Q gar crop 30 per cent and favors H American industry. B Ogden Ogden Furniture nnd Car- HBJ pot company to build largest furnl- HVM turo warohouso In west at cost of H $200,000. Construction starts soon. BIB Ogden Flans completed and com- HBM missioned ready to spend $400,000 HBB on sewerage system. BBj Salt Lake Purity Illscult company H to build $20,000 factory addition. H Prospects fine for Utah fruit crop. BBflj Campaign to place local fruits on flflj eastern markets. H Marysvale Pittsburg-Utah com- H pany to put in $80,000 mill with 200 BBflj ton dally capacity to produce potash H and aluminum oxide. m i Trovo Utah Valley Gas & Coks H company start extension of plpo lino m from I'rovo to Sprlngvlllo and Span- R Ish Fork. Plant being enlarged and BflflL additional men employed. H Oompers and Morrison, of tho H Amorlcan Federation of Labor, read BflflL tho riot net to the supremo court BBH for Its decision In the Adamson law BBflj whore It says tho right or trainmen B tn preclpltato a goneral strike Is 11m- B Ite'l liv tho public Interest. flflff Utnh wool clip for 1917 may reach H 1 (inn. 000 pounds, and sell at rec- flflft ord high price. fl Eldorado narnl Mining company preparing to Install oil flotation ! plant. J Eureka Old Sioux Consolldater now pushing deep work. Iron King to resume development. Salt Lako county purchases six now drago and starts road work. Pleasant Grove $25,000 plant to can fish of Utah Lake to bo erected near here. FIno grain of Utah Lake fish said to bo superior to fish of coast. Eureka Movement under way for better wagon road Into North Tlntic section. Ogden U. P. System purchases 060 acre3 In Taylor's canyon from city. tract adjoins stream and springs supplying company reservoir and object Is to avoid pollution. Tho rollroads aro asking regulation regula-tion at tho hands of ono nntlonnl board Instead of 48 stnto and federal feder-al boards a3 at present nnd no good reason has been advanced ngalnst It. If the railroads would fight the more It would probably bo forced upon them nt once. Utah County taxpayers to vote, April 17, on $750,000 bond Issue for roads. Utah tares will reach $G, 900, 000 by next year. . In 1915 nnd 1916 tho stato collected, for all puropeses, approximately ap-proximately $4,458,000. Utah nnd Idaho will have over 150,000 acres planted In beets this year. Moab $25,000 bank and hotel building to be erected hero. Otf-thc-tray meals is ono of tho latest features Introduced by Union Pacific system for benefit of Its patrons. pat-rons. Eureka Eureka Mines company ship first enr of oro. Ogden California Packing corporation cor-poration takes over canneries In Ogden Og-den and vicinity. Salt Lake Wool scouring plnnt to locato hero will cost $250,000. Murray planning $20,000 garbage crematory. ' Utah taxes for all purposes. In- eluding special accupatlon tax on mines, will total $C,9o6,OQO for 1917. Utah factory products of 191G total to-tal $140,405,726. Ogden Construction started on mammoth apartment house containing contain-ing 120 apartments. Delta 200 men rushing big sugar factory to completion; $25,000 acres to be seeded. Millions of dollars have been added add-ed to Utah's natural resources In last few weeks by rising prices In lumber. Logan Superintendent of Amalgamated Amal-gamated Sugar company says outlook for Immense ncreago of beets In valley, val-ley, this year, la good. Will be 25,-000 25,-000 acres planted in Cache, and about 55,000 acres in all for this company. Salt Lake Old Maxfleld mine, In nig Cottonwoood canyon, shipping $70 ore. Ourlndustrlal development, Includ-Inf Includ-Inf farms, mines, railroads, etc., Is being severely retarded, duo to tho false conservation policy of congress In refusing to pass legislation allowing allow-ing development of wnterpower requiring re-quiring federal permit. How much longer will the we3t have to put up with this situation? |