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Show ITAH IMll'STHIAl. HKVIKW Suit Lake. Dec. 2G(h Improvements Improve-ments under way. by Oregon Short Une are delayed by scarcity of labor. The company spent $3,'lsl,UUU in Ctali and Idaho the past year. Ogden Southern Pacific shop grounds at Ogden contain 2 7 acres. Building and tracks cost $1,300,000 Value or tools and equipment $300, 000. Men employed 9S7. Yearly p.-vroll $936,000.00. "cehi Farmers given ?1. advance for delivery of frozen beets, which with bonus of 40 cents means $6.90 per ton. Over $200,000 paid out by Utah-Idaho Co. here the past 10 days. Utah sheepmen, according to state sheep commission receive $3,500,000 for 1916 wool clip. $4,500,000 for mutton shipped east. Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. distributed over $2,000,000 to Utah and Idaho farmers Dec. 15 th for beets delivered. deliv-ered. The value of manufactured goods in Utah during 1916 as compared with 1914 shows actual gain of more than $53,000,000 while the estimated estimat-ed gain of this year over 1915 is more than $40,000,000, according to secretary of manufacturers association. as-sociation. Salt Lake Amalgamated Sugar Co. distributes $1,375,000 to farmers of Utah and Idaho as second payment pay-ment for beet crop. Syracuse Sugar factory planned in this locality. Utah Public utilities pay taxes on assessed valuation as follows: Railroads, $72,5S2,660; lnterurban railways, $9,45 5,019; Power companies, com-panies, $896,522; Express companies $162,328; Pipe line concerns, $169, 155; Car companies, $ 1,065,077 ; Mining companies $8,296,174. Legislative committees', are now at work trying to figure out new means of taxation in order to raise the necessary mondy to maintain proposed public utility and other commissions. The only effect these commissions will have will be to send taxes higher for their, maintenance main-tenance and make a lot of high salaried sal-aried jobs for deserving politicians and the public will pay the bill. Salina $25,000' company formed form-ed to operate Monroe Hot Springs. Salt X,ake Route announces expenditures ex-penditures of nearly $5,500,000 for 1916 budgett. $150,000 factory to manufacture sugar discharges planned for Salt Lake. Politicians wonld do well to heed the sentiment of the public and hold down taxes and pass a. minimum of legsilation at ocming session of legislature. |