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Show fWDUSTRIAL REVIEW OF THE 5TSTE OF DTI :r Salt Lake Oregon Short Line authorizes au-thorizes expenditure of ?14,650 for increased in-creased terminal trackage hero. Salt Lake City to tap water In Big Cottonwood 7,000,000 gallons daily to be released to keep supply at par. Fort Douglas Eight hundred furnaces fur-naces and stoves bought for fort Thirty cars required to bring $50,000 cargo to cantonments. Ogden Work started on railroad laundry Oregon Short Line to spend $8000 adding to commissary plant. Provo Iron King Mining company-doubling company-doubling its capital. The commerce of tho United States exceeds that of any othor nation In i tho world, and measured by ton-miles is probably greator than that of all the rest of the world combined. It Is moved on the lowest ratos and by tho highest-paid class of labor In the world. Efficient uso of operating units has mado this possible. Salt Lake Construction started on electrification of Saltair linos from Salt Lake City to Saltair beach, and extension of electrified road from Saltair to Garfield. Ogden Local firm to install cafeteria cafe-teria in big plant here. Three hundred and fifty employes will be benefited by tho innovation. Ogden Construction work started by Holloy Milling company on largo grain elevator hero, cost $100,000. Park City mines during July produced pro-duced total of 7378 tons of ore, estimated esti-mated at $360,000. Salt Lake Old telephone building being prepared for use. Grantsvllle Cement plant may be built near here. American Fork Auto road to be built up Deer Fork, cost $2000-?3000. Moab Work starts on reservoir here. Salt Lake-Will build spur to Mil-ford Mil-ford copper mine. Moab Big Indian mill to start op-orations op-orations soon. Ogden Manufacturers here petition for pavement over viaduct. Garfield Utah Copper company presents pre-sents jail to county to be erected here. Provo Ono million-dollar Knight tunnel project for Southern Tintic mine. Salt Lake Swastika mine will have $100,000 capital. Before government places moro orders or-ders for shipbuilding at Portland shipyards ship-yards 5000 additional laborers must be socured for steel ships and 6000 for work on wooden ships. If plans are carried out to rush building 25,000 mon will be worked. Salt Lake West Toledo will soon be working. Ogdon Work begun on garage to cost $30,000. Salt Lak5 Alta mine ships 200 to 300 tons of ore to smelters dally. Ogden Washington avenue $126,049 paving contract awarded. Salt Lake Contractors to receive ?6000 for extra work done on Parley's canyon dam. Salt Lake Utah Queen Mining company com-pany resumes operations in Stockton district xviagna rnirty tnousana-aoimr junior jun-ior high school building to be built here. Salt Lake 'Work begun on swimming swim-ming pool for state university. Ogden Utah Cereal Food company will build 300.0Q0-bush.el elevators. American Fork Warehouse com-mittoo com-mittoo of stato counoil of defense rec-i ommends building forty potato cellars, from Cache county to Utah county. Ogdon Paving contract of $40,956.98 awarded. Myton Myton-Carbon road now under un-der construction. Vernal Bond Issue of $35,000 floated float-ed for extension of city waterworks. Salt Lake Stretch of bad road near Salduro to bo improved. Marysvale Florence alunlto mill begins crushing ore to make alunite fertilizers for cotton and tobacco fields of aouthorn states. Mineral. Products potash plant running at full capacity. Utah's metal output in the first half of the year was lower than last year, on account of tho severe winter. Secretary Lane says: "Thoro are 35,000,000 undeveloped water horsepower horse-power in tho United States." Harnessing Har-nessing these water powers will 'do moro to conserve labor and produce hotter living conditions than any other agency or group of agencies that can bo mentioned by the anti-waterpower development crowd, who for fourteen years havo labored so successfully in tho use of misrepresentations to kill the waterpower industry in the United States. |