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Show Survey Planned On Resources Of The State Utah's natural resources and industrial in-dustrial potentialities will be compiled com-piled in a statistical survey designed design-ed to encourage new industries to enter the state and provide further fur-ther expansion of local firms. The project was given the go ahead signal Wednesday when the Utah Assn. of Chamber of Commerce Com-merce secretaries joined the Bureau Bu-reau of Economic and Business Research, University of Utah, in mapping plans for the proposed survey. Researchers will be concerned primarily with exploring possible markets for refined copper and further development of steel fabricating fabri-cating industries. They will also seek to determine the importance of such raw materials as phosphate, phos-phate, potash and coal in the pos sible development of a huge chemical chem-ical industry within the state. The survey will include an analysis of Utah food processing industries. Reports upon completion of the survey, will be available to both outside capital and local industries. indus-tries. It was pointed out that the vast source of information would be a vital factor in creating greater great-er industrialization within the state. The survey will be directed by Dr. L. Roy Nelson, assistant director di-rector . of the university bureau. To be financed under the University Univer-sity of Utah Alumni Development fund, the survey is expected to last three months. Six graduate students will assist in compiling statistics. |