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Show UTAH WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW June 2 5 Ogden Weber county farmers report threatened labor famine may cripple them in harvesting bumper crops in this part of the State. Railroads Rail-roads and mines are picking up men without asking questions as to their being experienced. In spite of help from men and boys who are being enrolled in the cities, hundreds more are needed. Farmers are demand ing that labor be allowed to come In from Mexico and the Orient on wartime war-time permits. Alta Railroad being rushed to make connection with upper camp. Salt Lake Union Stock Yards are crowded to their capacity with shipments ship-ments of live stock from the west, California and Oregon sending train-loads. train-loads. Daly mine to pay $15,000 dividend on July 1st. Ogden New hospital has been opened here one of the largest In West. Provo 4 000 acres opened and settled in the Strawberry project the past two weeks. Single claims as high as $5000. L. R. Eccles, president of the Empire Em-pire Copper Company, subscribed for $50,000 of the Liberty Loan and announces an-nounces distribution of the same to the stockholders as an extra dividend. divi-dend. Syracuse 800 acres of land to be reclaimed in this part of Davis county coun-ty by tile drainage. Silver City Last part of May cleanup Tintic Milling Co. brought $46,000. American Fork again agitating a fish canning factory. San Francisco firm will spend $200,000 on elevators at West Ogden. Og-den. Gunnison New sugar company will build a $1,125,000 plant here, road improvement between this place and Myton. With high prices farm-Logan farm-Logan Milk cannery plants of the Borden company are being enlarged. en-larged. Price $40,000 to be expended on ers want good roads to markets. Cattle, sheep and crops in southern south-ern Utah counties reported to be fine. The wool clip of Wayne and Garfield counties brings double prices. American Fork is to have a modern mod-ern hospital. Moab is to have a new hotel, bank and business block, the latter to be fitted up with a modern office for the Grand Valley Times. Twenty-five to forty thousand dollars to be expended ex-pended on dam to reclaim six thou-' thou-' sand acres of land. Salt Lake Labor shortage is reported re-ported from many sections of the State and farming operations and industries in-dustries are already suffering. As high as $2.50 a day is paid for common com-mon labor on beet lands, orchards and haying, and unless the literacy test is suspended and labor allowed 'to come in from Mexico and the Orient Or-ient on wartime permits many believe be-lieve there is danger of a food famine fam-ine in the United States. The problem of food shortage can only be solved through supplying the soil with atmospheric nitrogen fertilizer, fer-tilizer, thus doubling crops. This illustrates il-lustrates necessity of passing legislation legisla-tion conducive to development of nation's na-tion's water power. Logan Steel elevator going up here to handle 50,000 bushels grain. Utah Copper Co. declared a $812,-245 $812,-245 dividend, making total of $64,-000,000. $64,-000,000. ' Nebo district gets a $1300 school building. Salt Lake Mammoth Mining Co. paid $100,000 dividend last week. State University wants to add a school of commerce. Salt Lake considering a municipal coal yard to avert fuel famine. |