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Show ers traveling other highways, spent , in Utah and how much money they left to help bolster the economy of ithis state. This is a serious matter serious to the opportunities op-portunities of all citizens of Utah. THE CAVALCADE ON THE MOVE The tourist travel each and every ev-ery month in 1946 has been almost al-most fabulous. A quotation from the "Chief News", trade organ of the Wasatch Oil Refining Co., gives the following comparison for January, of persons entering California through the Sacramento Sacramen-to gateway, in private autos: 202,598 in 1946, against 80,491 in January, 1945, and 69,425 in 1939. Such an increase over 1939 is almost al-most fantastic, yet it is true. It may be properly assumed that most of these 202,598 persons came from or through Utah. To those who are vitally interested in the economic welfare of the state, in its income and employment, it becomes a matter of great concern as to just how long these people, and hundreds of thousands of oth- |