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Show Bingham Shown As Trade Center Maps of Utah showing graphically graphical-ly natural trade centers of the statu were published in the Sunday Salt Lake City Tribune. Dr. George H. Hansen of the Brigham Young University compiled the statistics. Per capita sales tax assessed by cities for a five month period ending end-ing January 31, 1936 were used. A comparison of the maps of per capita cap-ita sales tax assessed and per capita capi-ta net sales for retail stores suggests sug-gests that the counties with concentration concen-tration of population also show a concentration of business transactions. transact-ions. Top ranking trade centers as judged by volume of sales are cities cit-ies which are county seats, and are on the main highway. The city with the largest sales tax per capita ($4.59) was Price, county seat of Carbon county. Mr. Hansen suggests sug-gests that this Is because of a favorable fa-vorable geographical location resultant re-sultant in the creation of a natural trade center. After Price, Bingham ranks a-mong a-mong the top dozen trade cities of Utah with an assessed sales tax of $2.52 per capita. This high rating of Bingham as a trade center In a county filled with trade centers is a further argument for advertising Bingham as a town and a good place to trade and advertising for the individual businesses In Bingham Bing-ham Canyon. |