Show UTAH RANKS LOW IN LIQUOR USE IRON COUNTY HIGH salt lake times in a series of articles written by jennings phillips for the Tele telegram graul it was disclosed that the per capita liquor consumption in ill utah for 1936 was less than the 23 states using the private licensing system well under the national average and even below the per capita average tor for the 15 monopoly commonwealths the average per persona for the year showed only the total sales during the entire year reached a grand total ot of daggett county smallest in area and population was the states wettest spot in the year it its residents were charged with a per capita expenditure ol of 1111 for liquor although total eales bales there were only tor for the year its sales accounted for 12 per cent ot of the state total while its population percentage Is only 08 rich county on the other hand emerged from the survey with a title ot of the states driest county and a per capita liquor bill ot of only its 1936 liquor purchases ol of were only 13 percent ot of the state total whereas its population percentage was 37 not all of the liquor purchased in daggett countes coun tys lone liquor store was consumed in the county many wyoming neighbors sales slips ot of the commission show were among daggetts diggetts Dag getts customers tourists and other transients likewise helped boost the per capita expenditures of other counties this was waa true ot of iron county whose largest center cedar city Is the gateway to to the national parks ot of southern utah irons per capita was second highest in the state its in sales representing an expenditure of 0 1066 tor for each resident the per ot of sales to the s tate state total was 51 as against 35 per cent tor for its population ratio salt lake county was wag fourth on the list with a per capita apportionment tion ment ot of as against grand countes coun tys third place quota ot of 1045 |