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Show THE UTAH WEEKLY-INDUSTRIAL WEEKLY-INDUSTRIAL REVIEW ., As usual the big industries are backing the Liberty loan to the limit, but individuals, farmers and everybody must go in to make it an unbounded success. Nephi Grain Elivator Co. incorporates incorpor-ates for ?10,000. Salt Lake Building operations for September, 1917 totals $33 5,-ooo, 5,-ooo, compared with $146,060 for September 1916, or 130 per cent increase. in-crease. Salt Lake Alta transportation line being constructed from Wasatch Was-atch up the Little Cottonwood canyon can-yon to Alta nearing completion. Salt Lake 100 Mexican laborers labor-ers pass through here to work in sugar beet fields near St. Anthony, Idaho. Impossible to obtain other help. Figures showing the saving accomplished ac-complished by the Southern Pacific's Pa-cific's pictueresque Lucin cut-off across Great Salt Lake indicate it may be considered one of the greatest great-est railroad improvements of ' this generation. Salt Lake work on warcnouse of Consumers' Warehouse and Storage Stor-age Company begun. Salt Lake L. D. S. hospital to have new heating plant. Ogden Ogden Short Line railroad rail-road preparing to handle 500 carloads car-loads of apples from orchards between be-tween Ogden and Malad, Idaho, for shipment to eastern markets. Salt Lake Grading of Garfield extension of Salt Lake, Garfield & Western R. R. to begin soon. Garland Garland bank moves into new quarters. . Salt Lake Weber coal mines will soon operate. Contract for construction con-struction of spur track let. Ogden Hansen Live Stock and Feeding Co. commenced erection of feeding, barns and eed grinding mill on fifty-acre site in Wilson district. dis-trict. Cost $30,000. Provo Total waste of peaches in Utah this season will amount to 'about $100,000 and yet thousands of people in the middle west states are calling for western fruit shortage short-age of labor and lack of time given as reasons for waste canning factories fac-tories needed. Delta Sugar making new "industry "indus-try in Pahvant Valley. Salt Lake: $10,000 expended at Orphan's home this year. Senator Newlands, chairman , of the .congressional committee., investigating inves-tigating transportation problems, says: "The successful prosecution or the war depends more upon transportation trans-portation by rail, river and' ocean than upon any one thing, and yet rail and river transportation is the only thing to which the ' energizing aid of the government has not been given." Provo Work on . reconstructing Olmstead flume for Utah Power & Light Co. in Provo canyon. Salt, Lake Sevier, Garfield and Washington counties planning a number of new school houses. Ogden Branch establishments for Ogden Packing and Provision Co. completed at both Los Angeles and San .Francisco, and have been occupied by Ogden corporation. Midvale-Utah. Iron & Steel Co's. $250,000 open hearth steel plant ready for business. Moab Utah Placer Mining Co. to commence operations on claims along Grand river near Dewey, Oct. 20th. Ogden American Telephone and Telegraph Co. subscribes for $5,000,-000 $5,000,-000 of 'Second Liberty Loan in behalf be-half of themselves and their employes. employ-es. In the name of conservation, laws have been passed which have rendered ren-dered impossible the development of the nation's water power at a time when power development is needed as never before The Pin-chot Pin-chot chickens have come home to roost anc' brought the worst coal and oil shortage in the hiftory alorg with them. Kaysville Cross country roads running east and west from mountains moun-tains to lake to be improved. Bountiful Perrigrine Sessions' Ses-sions' farm starts molasses making. Cane raisers of Davis county supplying sup-plying sorgum for process. Ogden Boys' and girls' of Utah realize over $900,000 on farms,; 36,000 boys and girls co-operated in work during past season. Utah mines are yielding up $750-000 $750-000 every seven days. Salt Lake Utah Oil Refining Co. to erect two $25,000 buildings. Blanding White Mesa Canal Co. plan to build dam. A dispatch from Washington says: "General shortage of labor in industries that must be kept going go-ing at top speed if U. S. is to throw-Its throw-Its whole strength into war is giving giv-ing considerable concern to Government Govern-ment officials studying the situation. situa-tion. Conditions in some parts of the country already threaten production pro-duction of 'essential materials. |