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Show j Spotlighting UTAH j Querns Would Be Crowned Brigharn City and St George are computing for the services of Governor Herbert B.-Maw to crown queens at September celebrations cele-brations scheduled at both cities. The St. George event is the annual Homecoming Roundup Utah Personal Incomes Up Treasury department figures from Washington reveal that Utah's personal income tax collections col-lections for the fiscal year ending end-ing June 30, 1947 show a gain of $1,609,084 over the year previous pre-vious an increase of 7 1 per cent. Utah's total income tax Collections during the period mentioned totaled $24,1 lfl.051. Utah Construction Upped While declines are noted in J states surrounding Utah In build- I ing activity, Utaii building and engineering construction contracts con-tracts have doubled, it is reported report-ed by the Daily Construction planned for Sept. lit, 19 and M ! Ramona McMullin has boon named nam-ed queen and it is expected she will be crowned by Gov. Maw I The Bngham City celebration is the annual Peach Days event scheduled for Sept. 3-6. Peach Queen seekers totaling 54 are in the race delegation or six young women representing the contestants contest-ants have already called on Gov. j Maw and requested that he bo in attendance and crown the Peach queen. DUP Markt Historic Spots The Daughters of Utah Pio-neers Pio-neers in line with their policy of j setting up memorials in Utah designating historical places have dedicated four additional mark-! en as follows: Tooele, the spot' where early Utah scouts first ( viewed Tooele valley; Boar River Riv-er City, where a settlement was j started in 185G; Payson, where that city was first settled in 1850; Huntington canyon, Emery county, coun-ty, designating first settlement in Castle valley in 1878. Manti Plant Will Not Close Despite reports of the closing of the Reliance Manufacturing plant at Manti, A. T. Bird, Reliance Re-liance president says: "It is contrary con-trary to present plans of the company to cease operation at the Manti plant immediately". The Manti plant made parachutes parachut-es during the war and work clothing since the war. Despite the fact that a number j of successful river expeditions have been made on the Green and Colorado rivers this sum-' mer, all voyagers should be prepared pre-pared for any eventuality. nri V ILV. Utah Nation's Largest Cold Producer Utah now lead.; the nation in gold production, it is reported by the bureau of mines. The state produced 8,200 ounces of gold during June 1947. Utah Second in Silver The January to June silver production in Utah totaled 3,734,-999 3,734,-999 ounces. Idaho ranks first as the nation's silver producer. Basin Residents Watch Oil Well Everybody in the Uintah basin bas-in and outsiders a.s well, are watching Carter Oil Well No. 1, now being drilled 6 1!2 miles west of Vernal. While the hole is down over 4.000 feet, the well has already produced 200 feet of oil-soaked mud and considerable oil. Despite this showing however, how-ever, the well is being put down deeper in hopes that something better will be reached. The well is only 60 miles from the gigantic gigan-tic Rangely, Colo., field, one of the nation's major producing oil fields Utah Skiiers Await Brighton Area The Utah Department of Publicity Pub-licity in cooperation with the state road commission and Salt Lake county are spending over $20,000 to put in a loop road at Brighton, one of Utah's major ski areas. The new road will allow al-low skiiers to get in and out of the Brighton ski area without the difficulty usually experienced experienc-ed in that region. In addition, private interests are spending $200,000 to install a huge mile-long mile-long chair lift to carry skiiers from the road mentioned into the tops of the Brighton mountains. moun-tains. The improvements are expected ex-pected to be completed before snow flies. Iron Springs Under Study The Iron Springs iron mining district in Iron county will be visited Sept. 12, 13 and 14 by 75 mining engineers, geologists, members of the Utah Geological Society and special guests during dur-ing their annual tour The Iron Springs area is one of the largest potential iron ore areas in the western states and supplies iron for major western industries. Hotel Men to Hear of Tourist Promotion m C. Winder, director of tourist promotion, Utah Department Depart-ment of Publicity and Industrial Development will discuss, "Let's Get Our Share of the Tourist Business", at the annual convention conven-tion of the Utah-Nevada Hotel association held September 5 and ti at Elko, Nevada. To Tell Why Tourists Visit Utah Louisa M. Comstock, travel editor for "Better Homes and Gardens" magazine recently spent a week in the Bee Hive state to learn "what tourists want to see in Utah" Coming here at the suggestion of the Utah Department of Publicity Pub-licity and Industrial Development, Develop-ment, Miss Comstock saw nearly everything in the state a tourist might be interested in. Piloted amund Salt Lake City by mem hers 'of the state publicity de partment, Miss Comstock was particularly impressed with canyon can-yon retreates. She was thrilled with the shady rendezvous in Mill creek, City creek and Lit- j I tie Cottonwood canyons and i thought Brighton was a "refresh-' "refresh-' mgly cool" and delightful place for the "valley dwellers" to escape es-cape the heat. Her impressions of Utah will appear next spring in "Better Homes and Gardens." I Near Tragedy on Green River From the "Boulder City Daily News" comes a story of the res-; res-; cue of Mrs. Bert Loper of Green River, Utah, from possible death in the gorge of the Green River ; in an isolated section of south- ' eastern Utah Suffering from a broken shoulder shoul-der and ribs after being crushed between a heavy boat and a large boulder while launching the boat, Mrs. Loper had bten left under a mosquito netting on the , river bank while her 78-year-old , husband, Bert Loper. veteran i riverman, attempted to hike j overland through some of Utah's hottest deserts, for help. Two hours after her husband had left her on the river bank, j Mrs. Loper was discovered in i serious condition by Harry Ale-son, Ale-son, noted riverman, and Ralph i Badger of Salt Lake City, who J were making a river expedition j Aleson left the injured woman with Badger, and by following Loper'l trail, returned with him I six hours later, Aleson then re-1 re-1 paired Loper's new 16 horsepow-! horsepow-! er outboard motor, installed it I on Badger's boat and took the injured woman 28 rriiles up stream to the mouth of the San i , Rafael river, where he was forced forc-ed to swim ashore and hike to the Marsing Ranch. In an hour i he returned with an automobile. : Seven hours after the accident Mrs. Loper was under a phvsic-1 ian's care at Green River, Utah Had Aleson and Badger failed to i come along the river when they did, it is doubtful that either Mrs. Loper or her husband would have been alive today. |