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Show THE UTAH WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW July 1. Approximately 57,300 acres of sugar beets are being grown this year under contracts of Amalgamated Amalga-mated Sugar Co. in Utah and Idaho. Activity in Uinta Basin reported increasing. Shale and oil sand plants are to be erected and drilling to be conducted. Rebuilding of Huntsville road to start soon. Work of fostering sugar beet production pro-duction in Utah is being undertaken in earnest this year by various sugar companies of the State in co-operation with the Department of Agriculture, Agricul-ture, Agriculture college and county farm bureau. Plantings are being made in forty-six localities and the hope Is to rival sugar beet industry of Idaho. Construction Work ou a new milling mill-ing plant at Ogden to start soon. To include an elevator, made up or twenty concrete tanks with a capacity capaci-ty of 500,000 bushels, a four-story warehouse and six-story mill, the whole to cost about $750,000. Park City mines ship $100,000 ore per week. Stress is being placed upon matter of siloing beet tops by Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. It is hoped that many of the beet growers will silo tops from this year's beet crop, to be fed to cattle during winter months. The Ephraim highway, forty-five miles long, is to be completed this year. Cost estimated at $150,000. Price Consolidated soon to complete com-plete new shaft. Hoisting of ore from triple compartment to begin in July. Sugar beet crop in Utah in good condition. There has been some replanting. re-planting. Rails now being purchased for the new road to be built between Lund and Cedar City. A company has been incorporated for oil development in Millard county. coun-ty. ; Shortage of sulphur, an essential in the production of munitions, means the opening of sulphur deposits de-posits in Utah and Wyoming and cause the establishment of a war Industry In-dustry in Utah. A $22,600 contract awarded for construction of water works at Brig-ham Brig-ham City. American Fork mines and prospects pros-pects pushing new work. South Park mine to start shipping high grade ore, containing copper, lead, silver and gold, assaying $250 per'ton. With low price for copper and greatly increased freight rates, Utah chapter of American mining congress con-gress fears curtailment of output of low grade mines which will hinder operation of smelters and thus reduce re-duce output. : The April production of Utah Copper Cop-per Co. shows 16,690,883 pounds compared with 16,380,000 in March. Ore shipped from Park City on both railroads in January, February. March and April, 1917, aggregated 34,081 tons. This year shipments amounted to 40,537. Production by the mines of Tono-pah Tono-pah the past week totaled 10,27!) tons valued at $174,743. War garden crops in Salt Lake this year are expected to total in value val-ue more than $1,000,000 more than triple the sum obtained from last year's crops. Sugar today is one of the lowest priced food commodities, and sugar factories have struggled to maintain tonnage. New working shaft at Silver Shield is now entirely timbered and work will be started on two different places from the main tunnel level where good air now prevails. It is is expected ex-pected to start breaking ore at once on the Back vein. |