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Show THE STATE'S NEW INDUSTRIES September 10 Ogden Union Pacific using fifteen-mile stretch of new track between be-tween Emory and Wasatch, which was recently completed at cost of 13,000,000. Salt Lake Utah-Idaho sugar beet crop reported to be in good condition. condi-tion. , Ogden high school to have cafeteria. cafe-teria. Salt Lake $250,000 worth of sheep sold by National Wool Growers' Grow-ers' Association at auction here. Lehi Three new spur tracks built by Salt Lake & Utah Electric railroad, rail-road, to facilitate work in handling sugar beet crop. Located here, at Springville and Spanish Fork. SaltLake The Denver & Rio Grande has taken over the Salt Lake & Alta railroad up Little Cottonwood canyon. Light iron rails replaced by steel. ' Ore shipments from Alta district dis-trict via Wasatch constantly increasing. increas-ing. Salt Lake Oregon Short Line building six lines into beet country. Spurs will run through heart of grain growing district. Bingham to have new business block. Cost $15,000 Copper Ranch mine in Rocky mining min-ing district of Beaver county sold for $67,500. Brigham City Local factory of Amalgamated Sugar Co. completely overhauled and placed in readiness for big sugar campaign, September 20th. , Salt Lake Work to start at once on $25,000 Carnegie library. There have been $2,500,000 worth of new locomotives ordered for Pacific Pa-cific system of S..P. Total new equipment including Pacific Fruit express, of which S. P. is half owner, is $24,500,000, Ogden Everfresh Food . Co. factory fac-tory running to capacity. Park City New $4,000 school to be built here. Salt Lake Tintic"s AugUBt production pro-duction 928 cars or 46,000 tons ore valued at $1,000,000. Park City Old Park City camp produces 62,000 tons ore -in eight months, worth $2,000,000. August shipments 10,000 tons, or $400,000. Salt Lake $1,148,676 paid to U. S. by citizens of Utah. Corporation and income tax for states net government gov-ernment substantial sum. American Fork Cement highway planned between here and Pleasant Grove. American Fork Four thousand dollars' worth of new machinery installed in-stalled at canning factory here. Tremonton Annex to business block to be erected at cost $4,000. With a $2.20 price set for wheat in Chicago, the Farmers' Non-Parti-san League is not satisfied and is going go-ing to demand $3.00. In the next breath it demands government control con-trol of all big business to hold down prices. Consistency, thou are indeed a virtue. Control the other fellow, but let me alone, seems to be the league's motto. Salt Lake Famous "Lost Mine" reported re-discovered in southern Utah. Brigham Railroad construction being rushed. Marysvale New potash mill in sight here. Provo Big Indian mill to start soon. Provo Goddard Packing Co. purchase pur-chase site, and will begin construction construc-tion on $75,000 plant soon. Salt Lake Adams Express to complete system here soon. Honeyville New mill and elevators elevat-ors of Tiear River Milling Co. com-! com-! pleted. Installing new machinery. Utah third state in output of silver in 1916 JS, 911, 000. Salt Lake Plans for highway into in-to Grand and San Juan counties completed. com-pleted. Will connect rich agricul-; agricul-; tural valleys of south with D. & R. - G. Cost $174,000. ! With an increase In equipment of ! only 3 per rent, the railroads of this country rendered nearly 26 per cent more freight service' in June this year than in the same month last year. Ogden's hank clearings show increase in-crease of 70 per cent over the same period in 1916. Bank clearings for week $1,874,000. Enterprise Plans for new dam to be built here; old one enlarged. Will increase acreage under irrigation by 4,500 acres. Ogden Peach growers to reap big profits this year. Tremonton Canning factory in full operation, packing several varieties varie-ties of fruit. Plan for heavy run next year. Utah alfalfa crop valued at $7,-000.000. $7,-000.000. Increase of about $1,000,- 000 is shown. American Fork Bay State mine ( now hauling ore. In spite of undreamed of condi-j ' tions the railroads of the nation are ' moving thousands of troops and un-; heard of quantities of supplies with-; out interruption or serious incon-; : venlence to general traffic. |