Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-04-22 | Page 18 | Trade Census Lists Big Gain

TRADE CENSUS LISTS BIG GAIN OAIN Business Improvement has resulted re re- re- re Ix in nearly a 30 per cent increase increase in in- crease in the number of retail and manufacturing establishments in Utah's second congressional district district dis dis- during the last two years ears Samuel Samuel Sam Sam- uel tiel Dowse business census superVisor supervisor super super- visor reported Wednesday For the last three months Mr Dowse has been directing a comprehensive com corn census of f business in Salt Lake Ut Utah h Davis and Tooele counties His estimate of the increase e Inthe in inthe inthe the number numb r of business establishments establish establish- m in ments Is based on a comparison of the tho tabulations now being made against the business census for 1933 made two years yeats ago The current census is the most comprehensive f C In American business history anc and Includes data as to the number of at f establishments number of em em- total payrolls and gross isles ales More fore than concerns have been contacted during the present survey which Mr Dowse said wil b be completed in Salt Lake county by May 1 The work has ended in Tooele and county and will willS willbe willbe willbe S be finished in Utah county this week two Forty-two enumerators have been employed in the census 32 of them In Salt Lake county The 1933 census listed business business busi busi- ness Bess establishments in Salt Lake county in Utah county in Davis and in Tooele county In that census manufacturers vere were noted in Salt Lake county 60 in Utah county eight In Davis county and five in Tooele in-Tooele county Our ta to date indicate the figures for 1935 will be approxImately approximately 30 per cent larger than those for 1933 Mr Dowse said He thanked Utah business men for their cooperation with the enumerators enumerators enu enu- in compiling technical data for the census In providing for the census taking congress passed a measure that would impose a fine lne of or 60 days in jail for tor wilful neglect to answer the census questions and anda a fine line of or one year in Jail for a 3 wilfully false answer