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Show mil lvm srniKs hcmmivc. ( (ilepl.'le summary id lmin-oveinent-i and Knu'iprie. Suit i.:.ke City. At a meeting of the Utah Society of Engineers, State Engineer Lewis of Oregon advocated the miration of undeveloped water-power water-power sites for the generation of electric power, that cost to industrial plants may be reduced to a point where electricity will be more generally gener-ally used. Mr. Lewis said that while coal during the past ten years had inci eased cost at the rate of 1 per j cent a ) ear. the cost of generating electricity had boon reduced at the rate of 1"2 per cent a year. Building Build-ing of power plants in the weth, Mr. Lewis said, would give employment i to ihoui-ands of soldiers after the war. ,.,.M. r-.n..s December 1917, 1.77,:47 His.; 1910, 50,824,321 lbs. Silt Lake City companies are soon :o commence tbe manufacture of gasoline gas-oline fioi.i natural gas. Oa;l'ii Led seed is being sup-jl'el sup-jl'el to farmers who have signed . o j t raws. Y;l!ow Crock Eighteen feet, S5 ',":l!o: oil siiL.le deposit located. (');;cr j-ini nc::on lowered by .'.1 'kt s ;n 1 in 7 lUO.OilO tons. II ' :(: s:.iiidards for candidates :oi- pui l'c office implies Ihe need of lie pe -iplo selecting men and women vlni will :ere from a sense of patri-; patri-; t c, duly instead of political prodi- l:'ei'ill,T. Utah mice dividends first quarter ?:n,', ;l7:i7,i7h. MotniitK mine of Federal company is yielding 1000 tons daily. Ogdea is planning new municipal 1; t'il'ii t'nt-ili basin farmers predict ',- utiii.i r . rops. Span : h , o k oil field in Uintah basin to he developed. Bog mine, American Fork canyon, is ;o resume operations. Sugar factories to pay $10 flat rate for heels or at present contracts. Mill at Walker mine treating 100 tons daily. Salt Lake Gas and oil fields north of here to be merged. This is not a poor man's fight, nor a rich man's war. It is the struggle of the American nation for the right , to survive, and every citizen must and shall bear the brunt of it to the extent of his means and Ii is strength. Wilbert mining company has 5000 tons ore ready to ship. Juab $300,000 spent boring for oil here. Picche Nevada copper mine breaking forty tons of ore per day. Payson Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. leasing large acreage here. Smithfield pea cannery is now a certain ty. Moab Big radium production company to enter this field. Manti 20,000 acres land bonded for oil exploration. Among the cattlemen are to be found a big percentage of the brainy citizens of the state and we trust the prediction about their giving more attention to politics and office holding hold-ing will prove true. The state would he pleased to see cattlemen elected to the legislature this fall. American Fork beet growers fix $13 an acre for.making crop. Fillmore Westside drainage district dis-trict bonds voted, $1,125,000. Tremonton Plans completed for big cannery here. Moab Bridges on Green river road to be replaced. Tunnel to be sunk to coal veinf ound at Courthouse Court-house station. Hyrum farmers establishing large bean industry. Smithfield Utah Ooil and Gas Co. will sink aonther well here. Instead of interning I. W. W.s and' others guilty of treasonable language and sabotage, Secretary of Labor Wilson announces adoption of a policy pol-icy of deportation. The United States has a lot of available islands both in the South Seas and in the North Pacific, Pa-cific, where fishing is good. Bananas Ba-nanas and cocoanuts are plentiful in the Orient, and root vegetables can be grown in the Aleutians. Deport the anarchists and slackers. Sanpete oil field to be developed Utah Placer Mining Co. resumes operation on Grand- river. Ogden Weber county road building build-ing estimates for the various 'districts 'dis-tricts are as follows: North Ogden $15,000; Hooper, $40,000; Cache valley divide, $5000; Wilson, $5000-West $5000-West Weber and Warren, $5000- Ogden Og-den canyon and Huntsville, $7000-Plain $7000-Plain city, $4000; Riverdale, $4000 : Eden, $2000; Liberty, $2000, and South Weber, $2000. State1 road eagineer advised county commissioners commission-ers that work upon roads would commence com-mence soon. Whiterocks 300-ton oil sand plant to he built here Weber county beet acreage now reaches 7000. The best way to draft farm labor is to amend the vagrancy law so as to include within its terms every able-bodied man who does not do six days work each week as a rule Salt Lake capitalists plan $20o'ooo rlour mil near Salt Lake and $700 -00 ot refinery m Uintah basin Ogden Union stockyards build addition ad-dition of forty pens. |