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Show THE UTAH AYEEKLY i , INDUSTRIAL KKVrWV i September 16. Apex Standard Co. to start sinK-ii:g sinK-ii:g shaft at Eureka. Improvements made at plant of Utah Cereal Food company at Ogden in order to increase capacity for war purposes. j Construction work on new Pan-! Pan-! tages theatre at Salt Lake to start I soon. Loss of native trout from Fish Lake will be prevented by the construction con-struction of a concrete outlet between be-tween Mud lake and the Johnson reservoir. res-ervoir. Utah and Idaho will produce 30,-000,000 30,-000,000 bushels of wheat this season. sea-son. Of this, Idaho will produce 22.000,000 and Utah 8,000,000 bus. Profit making and profiteering are two very different and contrary ideas. The first must be encouraged as definitely def-initely as the latter must be suppressed. sup-pressed. War taxation should be based on the same distinction. Discovery of ore carrying molybdenite molyb-denite and scheelite made in shaft of the Yellow Hammer mine of the Western Utah Copper company at Go-Id Hill. New 200-ton mill of Utah Mine Co. will he in operation soon at Fish Springs. Utah Oil Refinery is now turning out each month about 1,000 barrels of grease, 1,000,000 gallons of gaso- 1 - " " I ! line. 250,000 gallons of kerosene and 250.000 gallons of oils. ; Production of Portland cement in Utah in 1917 amounted to 929.730 1 barrels. Dixie Oil Co. is preparing to drill ; well No. 6. j More sugar can be had for next year, but it will require prompt and' broad visioned action by the Sugar Equalization Board to make possible I an increased domestic supply. j Six thousand acres in Tooele county coun-ty are to be developed by Utah Grain Growers' corporation. New reconstruction hospital at Ft. Douglas will be opened with 1,300 beds. Later capacity of 3,500 beds will be reached. Utah flour mills are loaded with flour in excess of the demands of the West which cannot be moved to the European market because of the recent re-cent government order prohibiting the shipment of wheat to foreign ports in flour form. The state of Utah will collect close to $9S9.000 from mining taxes in November. Net proceeds of Utah mines in 1917 totaled $32,959,960, as compared with '$33,204,411 in 1916. Beaver Bottoms Development Co. organized to further development or that rich section of agricultural lands. The Deseret Museum of Salt Lake is to move to a new structure which Is practically completed. Metal production of Utah in 1917 reached the high value of $99,325,-000. $99,325,-000. Production affected by severe winter weather, higher costs ' and shortage of labor. The prices of metals, met-als, except silver, were lower than in 1916. Salt Lake county's production produc-tion in 1917 is 75 per cent of total. Road building and street improvement improve-ment throughout country passes under un-der federal control for war under regulations issued federal highways council. Gary Motor Truck Co. of Gary, Indiana, In-diana, is shipping motor trucks from factory to bonded warehouses In principal western cities to hold in reserve re-serve for re-shipment and drive away delivery during busy seasons when railroads are overtaxed and freight cars unobtainable. Peruvian Consolidated Mining Co. tobuild ore tram at Alta mine. Will be 4000 ft. long and cost $15,000; has opened three large faces of ore. Shipments of coal from southern Wyoming for week ending August 1'7 aggregated 2436 cars, while shipments ship-ments from Utah were 2121 cars, which was an increase over shipments ship-ments of previous week. Government to ship wheat direct to Europe from grain fields of Utah In bulk. To increase coal production, twenty-eight production managers have been appointed by U. S. fuel administration, with Thomas Sneddon Sned-don as manager for Utah and southern south-ern Wyoming. Will try especially to make workers in coal centers realize real-ize necessity for increased fuel tonnage ton-nage as a part of war program. Honey crop in Bear river valley is the best ever known. |