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Show I UTAH WEEKLY IN- DUSTRIAL REVIEW $ Utah industries show great activity activi-ty and each day that passes Illustrates Illus-trates more forcefully the groat part transiortatlon, manufacturing, pow-er pow-er development, mining and agrlcul- tliro will play in the defense of our nation. June 14. Ogden Adam Patterson. Patter-son. Jr., former resident here organizes organ-izes 11,000,000 shipbuilding company to build wooden ships on Puget Sound. I Ogden Ogden Packing company I contracting for planting of 60,000 pounds of peas and will install pea vlners at Liberty and Eden. Governor .Bamberger announces that stato will build two highways Into Uinta basin if co-operation is' forthcoming from county and municipal muni-cipal authorities. Ogden Amalgamated Sugar company com-pany planning to double or treble capital. 1 Beaver Woolen mills here, closed for fifteen years, to be put in operation. oper-ation. Parowan enjoys boom In building. Salt Lako Dotnand for 1,000,000 tons of coal In excess of largest amount over mined In Utah is to be made on the coal inlnos during coming com-ing year by Intel-mountain and Pacific Pa-cific coast Industries and domestic consumers. I Utah needs many laborers. Mines construction companies and corporations corpora-tions hard pressed for men. Two Utah mining camps produced $1,350,000 In metals in the past month, Heber City municipal lighting plant has been authorized by the .Utilities commission .to raise 50 per cent nnd motor rates 10 per cent. Tho Dell Telephono system has shown what a great industry can do in aiding tho government In time of I war, and the beauty of It Is, it Is self-supporting self-supporting Institution and no burden to tho government and taxpayers. Salt Lake Plans completed for modem hydro-electric power plant to be constructed at Fort Douglas at cost of $100,000. 1 Preston Must have sugar and poa factory horo flvo hundred acres will bo planted to peas, i Ogden Contracts let for new school buildings, totalling $76,570. I Honoyvllle near Klver Milling company to build modern flour mill hero. I Snlt Lake rinns made for new J90.000 St. Paul Episcopal crurch. I Anaconda Work being pushed on railroad to ma from Divide to Elk-horn Elk-horn properties of tho Boston ft Montana company. Expect to have railroad and now 500-ton mill finished fin-ished by November s Fish Lako Hatchery here as possibility. pos-sibility. Sugarhouse E. Hansen company's new garage in course of construction. Salt Lako Western States Manufacturing Manu-facturing company lets contract for first unit of 11,000.000 factory. Dual regulation, full crew laws, Increased wage laws, high taxes and Innumerable other conditions, brought about by the war are enough to cripple Industries as great as our railroads, but in spite of this- they are holding their own while petitioning petition-ing for tncroased freight rates and legislation under which they can improve im-prove and meet demands made upon them. Provo Two thousand acres in southern part of Utah county, will be offered to tho public In tracts of 40 to 80 acres. Monroo to have up-to-date garage. Gunnison valley Is working hard for a sugar factory In 1918. Fifty thousand acres in various parts of Utah to be reclaimed and placed under cultivation. Work started on 20 now stock pens at Salt Lake Union stockyards. Utah Is to have the greatest fiuit crop In Its history. All Indications point toward an enormous yield. Salt Lake Work to start on electrification elec-trification of Saltalr, Garfield ft Western railroads; $50,000 worth of equipment ordered. Moab Erection of Dig Indian mill nearlng completion. American Fork Work to start on church seminary soon. Lehl New road to bo constructed betwoen here and Moslda. American Fork Another stage lino running from hero to American Fork canyon. Ogden Building permits let hero during May aggregate $61,000. I In commenting on the vital necessity neces-sity for waterpower development, Henry J. Plorco of Seattle says: "It Is Intimately connocted with tho solution so-lution of such national problems as extension of waterways, national defense, de-fense, shortage of food, conservation of coal, oil and. labor, Irrigation of arid lands, and railroad car shortage." short-age." These are a few reasons why congress, without further delay, should pass .legislation enabling development. |