Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-05-09
OUR UTAH WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW


Utah's beet crop in 1918 was worth
over $l0,0O0,000.
Watson, Utah.-A $4,000 oil re-
finery has been shipped to Emerald
Asproperty in famous Rangley field.
- Now is the time to go ahead with
all kinds of delayed building and de-
velopment activity and it will be but
short time until the mines, mills
and factories will be running full
blast.
st. George.-Big oil well testing
field near here.
Ogden.-New 8-inch well strikes
natural gas at about 100 feet.
Salt Lake.-Utah smelters get high
grade ore from Ouray district of Col
orado.
Salt Lake.-Sweet Candy Co. is to
build $250,O00 candy factory here.
Utah production of silver amounts
to nearly 100000 ounces year,
and ranks second as largest producer
Of silver in the United States.
Moab.-The Levi we'll of the West
ern Allies Co. resumes work.
The Non-Partisan League social
istic scheme involves the substitution
of paternalism for Americanism-of-
fetal control of the individual, for
American initiative and enterprise.
March production Of Utah Copper
is estimated at 8,366,00O lbs.
Ogden--25 miles of paved roadway
in Weber County is planned.
Utah fruit is becoming well known
in the east. A large demand on the
Atlantic coast.
Utah is to celebrate the completion
of the road across the Great Salt
Lake Desert July "a.
The Utah State Automobile As
ISOLATION is posting road signs on long
state highways.
1t is the heighth of folly in these
times to handicap any industry by
killing taxations, when employment
is needed as the one sure counteract-
i've against Bolshevism.
Drilling operations are now under
way in Diamond Fork field Of Utah
county Uinta basin stockmen double
profits on hogs as result of cooper
alton with banking interests Of the
basin.
Ogden--Utah Power and Light is
to double it's gas plant here.
Salt Lake-Mammoth Mining Co.'S.
total assessed valuation is about
100000.
The 1919 wool crop of Utah and
other western wool-growing states
promises to be the best ever produced
according to S. w. Mcclure, Secretary
of the National Wool Growers Assn.
Salt Lake-Work started at South
ern Pacific Gold and Copper Mining
and Milling Co.'S. property in the
Sierra Madre mining district north
east of Ogden Hot Springs.
Government control and operation
of railroads, telephone and telegraph
has proved two things: That in
creased rates were necessary under
government control-same as under
private and that claims of private
companies that such increases were
necessary We're fully substantiated.
Salt Lake-Freight reduction of &c
per cent net ton on building mater.
ial for use in federal, state, town
county or municipality road work is
announced.
Ogden-Approximately $3.50 acres
contracted for by farmers in the Og-
den district for sugar beets.
Bingham may have paved street
Cost $4,000.
Salt Lake-290 men laid off in ID
g. r. G. shop on account of lack o.
work,
The faith of the copper producers
in the future copper market, upoi
which depends much of the prosperit!
of Utah, is clearly shown by their at
titude in preventing, in so far as it il
possible unemployment, by keeping
mines in operation when metal sell
for less than cost.
The work ION hard surfaced roads il
Davis County not already complete
is being FASTENED.
Eureka-Construc of new rail
road into the eastern end of the Tin
tic district is under way
Salt Lake is assured new Yves
High School, four junior high school
and a grade school. $2,l30,O0O bond
sold.
Net cost of all the copper produce
= by the Utah Copper Co. during tn
~ year was 14.533 cents a pound as con
pared with 1895 for the previor
fear.
The Utah Wool clip for the yea
1919 is to break all records
Mt. Pleasant-$25, 900 bond issl
to be voted May II for alteration
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