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Show INDUSTRY WANTED - , '5 Under the leadership of Governor Maw, Utah steps out for more industries to add to those already here. Pictured is a unit of one of Utah's great industrial units, the Magna plant of Utah Copper. "I believe in encouraging capital to come to our state," states Governor Gov-ernor Herbert B. Maw in an article contained in the new 1941 edition of "The Mining Industry of Utah," a publication sponsored by the mining min-ing committee of the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce, which has just been released. Governor Maw sounds an encouraging en-couraging note for those who are willing to assist in the development of Utah's vast store of undeveloped resources and takes the lead in a movement to attract industry to Utah. His statement, in part, follows: fol-lows: "Utah is blessed with more varied natural resources than most any state in the Union. In many respects re-spects it has a natural setup for a great industrial center, though its distance from regions of heavy population and other factors provide pro-vide difficulties. Since statehood the government has never taken the lead in developing its possibilities. Utahns have been converted to the thought that they should wiit and pray for outside capital to come in and develop what we have "Like most of our citizens, I believe be-lieve in encouraging capital to come to our state. I believe in pro viding reasonable inducements to get it here. But I do not believe in standing idly by and wa'ting for it to arrive. I think the time has come when Utah must take the h;ad in getting things started for lis own people. The Legislature should eliminate every possible restrictive measure which diacour ages capital investments. "The administrative departments should adopt a policy of helpful regulation, and business should be made to realize that the state desires de-sires to assist it, not discourage it. In fact, I believe that all state officials of-ficials should be required to work on the assumption that the average aver-age business man Is honest not a rogue and that the state need not employ a corps of workers to get something on someone as has so often been the case in the past. The state should be especially, willing will-ing to cooperate with ita own citizens citi-zens in the various business fields. "Such a program as this will go a long way toward giving hope to Utah business and Utah citizens and will reduce the relief roll. "The mining Industry of Utah provides a total or partial living for over 50 per cent of our population. popula-tion. Every means should be adopted to help this Industry." |