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Show UTAH INDUSTRIES AND MINING April 1 Salt Lake capitalists building new vaudeville theatre. Ogden Utah Canning Co. spends Slu.uou on a large plant. Orcm Contract closed for $35,-1 $35,-1 UUO canning factory. Brigham mines follow Utah Copper Cop-per with bi-monthly pay days. Government melting up hundreds ;, of millions of silver dollars for ex-; ex-; port bullion. Making a price of $1 an ounce would satisfy the silver in-i in-i dustry, as profit on the operations i and stabilizing prices in such a way that mining operations could be planned out on a proper scale to secure se-cure the maximum production. Salt Lake New highway to Dug-way Dug-way to cut distance twenty miles. From standpoint of smelting and refining companies only solution of present high cost of labor is an increase in-crease in price of copper to at least 24 y2 cents per pound. Farmers planning to reclaim 12,-000 12,-000 acres south of Delta. Eureka mines sent out 136 cars of ore last week. Park City Judge mine shipping spelter. "Will somebody steer a good shoe repair man or two this way?" Cedar Ce-dar City Record. Moab Grand Valley Times Installs In-stalls new printing plant. Electric lighting to be extended to Draper and Riverton. Brigham planning $35,000 school. Salt Lake to get a new seven-story seven-story building. Ogden Examiner: The problem as to labor is being rapidly solved. For Weber and Davis counties, it has been made certain there will be no labor shortage. That could have been the only difficulty to cause the" agriculturists agri-culturists to feel that a limited acreage acre-age should be planted. Goldstone strike believed important. import-ant. High-grade copper disclosed at Napoleon. Farmers slow in signing up sugar beet contracts. Doubtful if full acreage acre-age will be obtained and some plants may have to shut down for 1918. A boom in manganese mining at Green River, to extent equal to that at Las Vegas, Nevada, is predicted. Cardiff mine has opened 12-foot face of $159 ore. Development of ledges of saturated satur-ated oil sands in San Rafael county bring to Utah an industry the importance im-portance and operations of which will greatly excel any mining enterprises enter-prises yet attempted in' the State. Utah's great need is working men who are big enough to want to have employers of labor treated fairly and capitalists who are clever enough to realize that it is foolish to expect any conditions to continue which would give them an advantage to which they are not entitled in fairness and honesty. Salt Lake Sanatorium to be built for disabled soldiers. Lack of miners is curtailing output out-put in many mines. Logan Dairying industry booming boom-ing in Cache valley. Garland getting shipments of Mexican Mex-ican labor to grow beets. Wool growers fix herders' wage at $60 to $80 a month and board. State road commission has set a tentative schedule of dates on which meetings are to be held with commissioners com-missioners of various Utah counties, to go over county programs for coming com-ing year, and to make necessary arrangements ar-rangements for completion of work. Garland Malad Reservoir Co.'s dam, thirty-one miles north of here has been completed and is rapidly filling with the flood waters. Suffi cient water has been caught to irrigate irri-gate 5000 acres previously utilized by dry farming only. Through the completion of the dam several industries, indus-tries, among them a sugar factory, have been assured Malad valley. Santaquin mining district being inspected by syndicate. Provo Thirty-five hundred acres in Duchesne county to be worked with local capital. Salt Lake--Lincoln Highway Association As-sociation will furnish Utah with '5 1 25,000 for construction of a road across Great Salt Lake desert. Indications of distant peace m.ike war metal market strong. In each western state there is a struggle on to keep down overhead expense of state and county government. govern-ment. The pressing war tax is too great to stand higher local taxes. Salt Lake to build woman's civic center. Zwma mine. Eureka, installing new equipment. Coal mining industry will be stabilized sta-bilized by new government order, preventing unnecessary long hauls. Montana. Wyoming. Colorado, new Mexico. Utah. Washington and Oregon Ore-gon will supply the Rocky mountain and Pacific coast states except that the mines east of the Rockies may ship also to Missouri valley points to supply the summer deamnd. |