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Show UTAH INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Union Pacific 1917 budget includes includ-es double tracking from Wamsutter, Wyoming, to Point of Rocks, Vtah. Western Pacific lets contract for 16 mile line from Grant on main line to Tooele. Farmington gets several new lines in annual appropriation of Mt. States Telephone Co. Bingham contracts for a "Sun Lit Trail" from Utah Power & Light Co., and will have a street lighting system second to none. Pleasant Grove Local cannery put up 13,000 cases of pears, beans, peaches, pumpkins, tomatoes and catsup. Kaysville grants land to Bamberger Bamber-ger R. R. for new depot, construction construc-tion of which will start in the spring. Ogden Utah Cereal Food Co. ; mill which started operations last June shipped in the past month nf r9ln worth S37.275.81. ' ln "1 gains 600 new corporations ! st year. Twenty pay $24,404Kutah mines in 1916 Utah Copper Wividends of which ; 9,494,410. Park City Shipme mines here are valued at re from ; 000 weekly. X$50,-, Salt Lake- Material being asseni, ; bled for electrification of Saltair Route and for extension of line from I Saltair to Garfield. ; Salt Lake Oregon Short Line Is ', remodeling office headquarters of ; freight house. ! Garfield Sulphuric Acid Plant of ; American Smelting & Refining Co. ! begins operation. ; Farmington Utah Power & Light Co. spends $25,000 rejuvenating old ', municipal plant recently purchased. Oregon Short Line has cut into ; service new automatic block signal : system which was recently complet- ed between Cache Junction and Mc i Cammon, Idaho. Bingham Utah Power & Light i Co. to reconstruct street lighting system to give six times the present light. Ogden Legislature will be asked 1 to deepen and straighten channel of , Ogden river for flood protection. Eureka Tintic mines ship heaviest -weekly production of year valued at 1350,000. Hurricane to vote $20,000 bonds for good water supply. Coalville Utah Power & Light Co. to take over city lighting as soon as new poles and wires are up. Murray announces new industry to manufacture the "best firebrick in the world." Ogden - Union stockyards, first unit, will be completed in December and will be the largest in the west. Tooele to have a new up to date steam laundry. Layton Work started on double track between here and Clearfield. Bingham For the fourth time since August 1, 1915, Utah Copper Co. has advanced the wages of its employees, increase granted amounting amount-ing in aggregate to upward of $1,-250,000 $1,-250,000 annually. Salt Lake Contract let for installing in-stalling pumping plant of new sewer system at a cost of $18,625. Ogden State convention of Can-ners Can-ners to meet here January 3 and 4. Garfield Work of enlarging the plant of the American Smelting & Refining Co. here is progressing rapidly. Power line being increased increas-ed and large bath house and lockers free for the 1500 employes, being built, also refrigerating plant for the benefit of the community. Utah sheepman, according to the state sheep commission receive $3,-500.000 $3,-500.000 for 1916 wool clip, and $4,-500,000 $4,-500,000 for mutton shipped east. Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. distributed over $2,000,000 to Utah and Idaho farmers on December 15. for beets delivered. The value of manufactured goods in Utah during 1916 as compared I. with 1914 shows a gain of more than I $53,000,000, while the eetlmated. j1 9ai of- this yqar ovar llu is more' than $40,000,000, according to the: secretary of the manufacturer's as- . . " i sociation. Utah Public Utilities pay taxes on j assessed valuation as follows: railroads, rail-roads, $72,582,660; interurban rail- ways, $9,455,019; power companies.! $10,851,787; telegraph companies, $918,122; telephone companies, $3,-896, $3,-896, 522; express companies, $162.-328; $162.-328; pipe line concerns. $196,15 5; car companies, $1,065,077 ; mining (companies, $8,296,174. Salina $25,000 company formed to operate Monroe Hot Springs. Salt Lake Route announces expenditures ex-penditures of nearly $5,500,000 for 1916 budget. |