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Show THE UTAH WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Work on the $40,000 road from Ogden to Hooper is planned to begin at an early date. Ogden firms will supply about 110,1)00 sacks of cement in construction construc-tion of the Globe Grain & Milling Co.'s new plant in West Ogden. Salt Lake Contract signed for four miles of paving in Davis county; coun-ty; cost $75,000. Lack of bricklayers and other workmen is retarding the work on addition to the public schools of Salt Lake. Improvement of the road in Big Cottonwood canyon from ore-loading bins of Cardiff Mining Co. to Brighton Brigh-ton is to be undertaken by county. State is to improve old railway grade at Salt Lake. Road commission commiss-ion to remove rails up Spanish Fork canyon. Rich gold quartz has been found : near Moab. Sixty-mile road from Fruitland in Uinta basin to Heber to be constructed construct-ed this fall. First twenty miles near Heber to cost $60,000. The construction of the railroad to Fort Douglas from Salt Lake will be rushed. Line will be standard gauge and permanent in construction. Work of rebuilding Knight Woolen Wool-en Mills at Provo, destroyed recently recent-ly by fire, will probably begin within a short time. Construction of mill of Seminole Copper Co. at Gold Hill is being pushed. Will handle ores heretofore refactory. Sulphuric acid plant of the Garfield Chemical & Manufacturing Co. is maintaining its normal output of 150 tons per day. Mines of the Park City district in the month of July shipped a total of 139 cars of ore, 7710 tons. An appropriation to improve the roads at Fort Douglas and place them in good, condition has been made by the war department and work is to be done at once. Construction of a hard surface road to the North Salt Lake packing plant of the Cudahy Co. is under consideration by the state road commission. com-mission. Salt Lake, including the suburbs, has a population of 143,902, an increase in-crease of several thousand over 1917, and a growth of 38,780 during the last eleven years. Utah peaches will sell for a minimum mini-mum of $2 a bushel this fall. Daly Mining Co. of Park City starts moving ores from depth. Employing Em-ploying force of thirty-five men breaking $50 silver-gold ore around S00 level. With a proposed 300-foot ore railroad rail-road spur from Salt Lake to the Columbus-Rexall and the 1400-foot extension completed this week to the South Hecla, it is expected that Alta will be in shape to considerably increase in-crease its weekly production. During the past twelve or fifteen years production of Utah's gllsonite district near Dragon and Watson in the southwestern rim bf the great Uintah basin, has produced and shipped approximately 200,000 tons. At this oil-residue mineral is worth about $30 a ton, tbis output represents repre-sents a production near $6,000,000. Plans and specifications for nearly six miles of paving in the city of Ogden and extending into Weber county approved by state road commission. com-mission. Cost estimated at $20,000 per mile Morgan Canning Co. of Smithfleld completes season's run 27,000 cases of peas, a total of 648,000 cans, put up. j Union Oil & Gas Co. at Watson ready to resume drilling. A saving of $50,000 to the wheat farmers of Uintah basin assured in the announcement that they will be paid $2 a bushel by the government for their grain delivered at Watson. Shipments of ore from mines of Tintic the week of August 9 totaled 164 carloads, estimated at 800 tons and valued at $240,000. . |