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Show THE UTAH WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW February 2 5 Salt Lake Completion of Gunnison Gunni-son Valley Sugar Co.'s factory in time for Us operation in 1918 is now assured. Lucin mine producing ore assaying $235 silver and copper. Midvale Steel Co. earned $71,-000,000 $71,-000,000 in 1917, of which $27,-260.-270 was war tax. Tooele potash plant to be enlarged to double output. Employs 150 men. Salt Lake Three oil wells to be drilled here. Skilled labor, highly educated men, trained experts these are taking tak-ing the places of the common laborer of the past in the big industrial plants. Moab Utah Eastern Co. completes com-pletes big warehouse and gets power shearing camp ready. Provo Work on slate quarries in State Canyon to be resumed. Vernal Stone and lumber assembling assem-bling for large new chapel, j Ogden That there will be a large ! increase In the sugar beet acreage in Utah and Idaho is indicated by the reports that come from various districts dis-tricts to the sugar committee of the national food administration of Utah. Eureka Happy Jack mine is shipping ore. Red Bell mine in the Cottonwood district putting on larger force. All the Iron county coal fields need is a railroad and Provo capital will help. Kaysvllle Fourth oil company starts to drill near here. New highway to be built from Mil-burn Mil-burn to Kenilworth. One Utah editor tells a lot of truth in the following: "The press, and particularly the country press, being freer from private and political graft and control, should be encouraged to speak the truth plainly and fearlessly, fearless-ly, according to the convictions of the editors, even though their estimate esti-mate and verdict necessarily will not always be infallible. Smlthfield got $9000 from Carnegie Carne-gie towards a library. Salina Ground broken for a big new flour mill. Park City sent out 205 cars of ore In January. U. S. reports put this State in lead as silver producer. The statement shows that there w.ere produced in Utah last year 14,315,300 fine ounces of silver, valued at $11,788,-700, $11,788,-700, with Montana second with 13,-711,100 13,-711,100 ounces, valued at $11,291,-100. $11,291,-100. Utah was sixth in gold production produc-tion with 175,133 fine ounces, valued val-ued at $3,620,300, or a decrease of $239,000, compared with 1916. The production of silver in the United States as a whole decreased 170,302 ounces in 1917, as compared with 1916, but Utah showed an increase of 770,000 ounces. Willow Creek gold mine reports a strike of "some magnitude." The big guns among the conservationists conserva-tionists are all busy killing any pos-siblity pos-siblity of water power legislation, playing the game of the eastern coal dealers. Salt Lake Permits out for $65.-000 $65.-000 new residences. The American Smelting & Refining Refin-ing Co. produced 71.868,451 ounces of silver in 1916, compared with 76,177,452 ounces in 1915. Its receipts re-ceipts from the sale of silver in 1916 amounted to $37,421.SS9. rieasant Green to have new water system and drainage district. Salt Lake Latter Pay Saints university uni-versity to have new $ 100,000 building. build-ing. Eureka Tlntlc mines sent out 6000 tons ore last week worth $250.-000. $250.-000. Ploche Nevada copper mine in Jnckrabblt district sending out fifty tons dally. Oil lands In Uintah Basin to be developed. Brlgham Amalgamated Sugar Co. will construct a 7000 ton cement coal bin. ; j The Welch Trout Propogating Co. i of Utah has been incorporated. j I. W. W. sabotage damaged one western irrigation ditch $60,000. i When an authority like Dr. David T. Day of the United States bureau of mines states that there are 20,-000,000,000 20,-000,000,000 barrels of oil in Colo- rado oil shale beds, and as much more in Utah, and that it Is up to these two states to relieve the oil shortage, the importance of the shale deposits becomes apparent. So great are profit-making possibilities of oil-shale industry that they stagger stag-ger imagination. Hundreds of millions mil-lions of dollars In new wealth should be obtained from Colorado and Utah fields. An Industry of this kind moans not only profitable returns on invested capital, but also a large and steady employment or labor, and establishment es-tablishment of new enterprises that will in one way or another be de- . pendent upon oil-shale production. |