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Show UTAH WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW July 9. Salt Lake Unexpended balances of $225,000 returned to State Treasury. Treas-ury. Olmstead Utah Power Co. building build-ing a new flume 2 3,0 0 0 feet in length, which will require approximately approxi-mately 4.000.000 board feet of lumber. lum-ber. Has 120 men employed on preliminary pre-liminary work, and with construction construc-tion fully under way will employ 500 men for three months. Company will install 5 500 K. W. unit. Provo Carisa Copper Company's Tintic properly sells for $115,000. Great activity reported in Dry canyon can-yon in Ophir mining district of Tooele Too-ele county. Deep Creek and Gold Hill- mining districts continue to show great activity. ac-tivity. Salt Lake Three apartments to be built here at cost of $60,000. Salt Lake $6 29,5SS worth of postage stamps bought here last year. Salt Lake Work started on repairing re-pairing railroad Wasatch to Sandy and Alia mine operators hope to market double present tonnage in next thirty days. Shipments of ore from mines or Pioche past week totaled 2750 tons. Provo 800 of the 1632 tracts or' land offered for sale on Uinta Indian Salt Lake Plan to construct new reservoir dam in Red Butte canyon to increase water supply at Fori Douglas. To cost between $60,000 aud $100,000. Salt Lake Fish hatchery at Fisti lake to be moved nearer lake. Salt Lake Work on three apartment apart-ment houses to cost a total of $35,-000 $35,-000 will be commenced at once. American Fork Six aud one-hair miles city sidewalk work completed. Roosevelt Eight hundred and forty-three acre feet of water from unnamed wash in Uinta county to be used for irrigating 840 acres lanrt. Directing ditch 1.0(H) feet long and construction of storage basin contemplated. con-templated. Moroni Steel construction work on People's Sugar company plant has been completed. Factory will bo ready for operation Oct. 1. Over $50,000 worth of machinery has been purchased from companies at Salt Lake, Ogden and Provo. Ogden Contract let for $57,G4S school building. Ogden Becker brewing plant moving to Evauston, Wyo. Salt Lake First half of 1917 city cost $137,175 more than in 191G. Grand Gulch Mining Co. sent $23,000 ore to smelters in June. Utah Copper Co. taking 3S.00O tons daily from Bingham mine. East Tintic Mining Co. is starting big development work. Twenty Utah mines paid over $15,000,000 first half of 1917. Canning factory to he built to handle fruit crop of Provo Bench. Federal Government rebuilds homes of cliff dwellers in southeastern southeast-ern Utah. Coal and oil famine threatens Pacific Pa-cific coast and Federal Government is trying to pass hnvs to release water powers. Brighatn State pays one-rhira cost of paving Main street. Single car of ore from Moiipmi;-Bingham Moiipmi;-Bingham mine nets $3 584. Logan Idaho railway employes get wage raise. ' The executive committee of tiio Manufacturers' Association of Utan to inquire into the labor conditions throughout the state, announced at the end of the meeting that the situation situ-ation is most critical. The canneries of the state are said to be affected most by the shortage and a number of the canners urged that the opening open-ing of the schools in the canning sections sec-tions be delayed until the canning season is over. Salt Lake Increased crop production pro-duction in city will be $500,000 this year. Michigan Utah mine operating in the Alta Cottonwood is increasinc: output. Fielding Utah Power Co. distribution dis-tribution system at this point has been recently rebuilt, providing improved im-proved service for our customers. Utah capitalists building sugar factory at Gunnison. Provo asking Federal aid to savo peach crop. Park City East Ontario mino will resume operations. Eureka Reporter Arrangements have been completed for the development devel-opment of the Central Hill group of claims which is located on the top of the mountain range which separates separ-ates Eureka and Mammoth. |