Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-06-06
OUR UTAH WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW

Mount Pleasant--Bonds voted fol
improvements in city waterworks.
Ogden is working to be aerial ter
minal.
Every industry, large and small /.
nightly interested in the construc
tive program outlined at this time b,
Congress. Repeal Of the luxury Ia,
and reconsideration of general fed
eral taxes will put new spirit inte
business.
Eureka-Tintic mines decide tt
strike but will negotiate with oper.
ators.
Utah cherry crop this season may
break all records.
Drago--Oii company here are pro.
ducing Is barrels Of refined oil daily
Senator Pittman Of Nevada be.
lieves that the price of silver will
rule at dollar an ounce or above
for the next twenty years.
Salt Lake-Sugar factories here
offering returned soldiers big pay in
the best fields.
Logan-slO0,0OO pumping plant to
be installed to irrigate 10000 acres
of Cache Valley.
Brigham-Contracts awarded for
construction of city street lighting
system.
This congress promises speedy and
affirmative action on oil and water
power measures which mean so much
toward increased development in the
western states.
Salt Lake-A stock driveway ap-
proximately mile in width and run
ming irregularly from the Arizona
border through Utah and Idaho, has
just been opened by the federal land
Office. 1t is said to be the longest
stock driveway in the world.
Utah coal mining camps are I'M
usually free from accidents according
to federal inspector of mines.
Salt Lake--Eastern factories being
unable to supply two forty ton cleo
trio locomotives for local electric
railroad it is decided to build them
in the North Salt Lake shops where
five passenger cars are now under
construction.
Mining has been the hardest hit of
any western industry by falling
prices but it shows signs of recovery
and silver is helping save the day.
Salt Lake--Big Texas oil company
may operate in Diamond Fork field
IS miles south of here.
The live stock industry now occu-
pies second place in Utah with val
uation of approximately $4,000, 900.
Utah state banks increased balan-
ces for the first quarter of 1919.
Utah's hay crop this season will be
heavy.
Implement houses of the state re-
port increases in the machinery de-
mand.
A battle is on to save the potash
industry in Utah. Fear felt lest i'm
ports from Europe and high rates
will throttle the infant enterprise of
the state
Spelter quotations show upward
trend.
Crop prospects for Boxelder are
bright.
Over the five-year war period our
country had the cheapest sugar and
gasoline prices in the world.
Five million fish fry more than
have ever before been planted in
state streams this year in the rivers,
lakes and streams Of Utah, according
to r. H. Siddoway, state fish and
game commissioner.
Fl. Mendelson, technical agricul-
turist of the Great Western Sugar
Co. praises Utah beet growers, and
says "Beete have been raised in Utah
with irrigation since 1891 and beet
seed, since, perhaps, 1895. Utah
people have been first teachers of ir-
rigated beet culture in every locality
in the west where irrigation is prac-
ticed."
Salt Lake-Elks approve plans
for 100000 clubhouse here.
Can a political government move
ment such as the NonPartisan leagu,
based on arraying class hatred
against capital succeed in our coun
try?
Immediate construction of furnaces
for the subliming of sulphur at thu
property of the Utah Sulphur cor
poration, Morrissey, Beaver County
is announced by Micheal p, Morrisse!
president and general manager of tn
company, at a cost of Sl80,000
Extensive work is planne'
in Sawtooth national forest this yea
to make suitable camping ground
and recreation places for tourists &C
cording to local forest officials
What has the l. w. w. and Bolshe
vik program to offer the workmen
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