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Show Harry Aleson, who runs regular regu-lar passenger trips down the river, recently returned up river from Lee's Kerry to Hite in 15 hours in a 16-foot boat powered by a 22 horsepower motor. Stewart Campbell of Layton, has received from the state a certificate of common carrier to take tourists into southeastern Utah. He will also innauguiate boat trips for tourists on the Colorado river. I Spotlighting UTAH I Utah Awaits Tourist Gold The American Automobile association as-sociation recently carried on a survey among its members to learn something about the habits of motor tourists, and the following fol-lowing report on the subject has been received by the Utah department de-partment of publicity and industrial indus-trial development: Average number of tourists per ear, 3; average mileage for all trips, 2,575; average number of days spent in actual travel, S1; average number of days spent on trip, 16; 261 of members stopped stop-ped at hotels exclusively; 25 of members stopped at motor courts exclusively; 15 of members mem-bers stopped at tourist homes; 34 of members stopped at all three. Since the membershio of the AAA is an excellent cross section sec-tion of the 30,000,000 Americans who will take vacations this season, the above figures could well be applied to that portion of the vacationists who plan trips by private automobile. The full worth of the automobile automo-bile tourist to cities, towns, and areas through which they travel, is shown in the following break down of the tourist dollar by the U.S. Department of Commerce: Com-merce: Gas, oil, 20 cents; food, 20 cents; lodging, 20 cents; merchandise, mer-chandise, 20 cents; entertainment entertain-ment and miscellaneous expense, 20 cents. Wanted, Market For Silk Uncle Sam is stuck with warehouses ware-houses loaded with Japanese ilk, is the latest roDort from the far east. It seems that consumers nave forgotten the allure of the product of the silk worm, and lm Dorters of Japanese silk would welcome promotional ideas that would put silk back in fashion again, all of which reminds us , that the silk industry once nourished in Utah but went to the dogs because of competition from Japanese silk. Speaking of dogs reminds us i that, due to scarcity of cotton i and wool in Utah in pioneer days does were shorn annually and their hair woven into cloth and used for clothing. Buffalo hair I also was gathered from sage-I sage-I brush and combined with cow's hair and used for weaving blankets. Colorado River Gains In Popularity Arthur Chaffin, resident of Hite, Utah, and ferry operator on the Colorado, says that 300 people peo-ple have visited that isolated Garfield point since April first. Most of them were interested in making a boat trip on the Colorado. Colo-rado. Included in the visitors j were a large number of Utah , Boy Scouts, who safely navigat- ed the 162 miles from Hite to ! Lee's Ferry in ocean-going rub-I rub-I ber boats. |