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Show from the trades and services. Theoretically Theoreti-cally we could have a lot of activity and exchange of income by taking in each other's washing but we would soon sll starve to death If no one created any new wealth. It is the new wealth which stokes ths economic furnace. That ia what generates the basic pay rolls and profits which make trade and build demand for services. If you stopped mining, farming farm-ing and manufacturing in Utah it wouldn't be long before all the stores would be boarded up, the banks closed snd ths whols state would quickly be abandoned. That'a exactly what happens to a mining town when the ore gives out. No more new wealth, no more buainess, no mors town. It is a good thing to be reminded of. It is the new weslth produced in Utah which makea the wheels go around and that new wealth in 1947 was first mining, min-ing, second sgriculture snd third manufacturing. manu-facturing. They are Utah's bread and butter industries. We should not forget for-get it. Utah's Bread and Butter Industries The Utah foundation, tax study organization, or-ganization, pointed out in a recent bulletin bulle-tin that the total new' wealth produced ia the state of Utah for the year 1947 had a value of S50S,000.000. Of this, the foundation reported, mining accounted ac-counted for 41 per cent, agriculture for 33.S per cent and the value added by manufacturing was 25.5 per cent. It ahould be noted that the foundation founda-tion is talking about new wealth, not about total state income. When s ton of coal is mined, or s bushel of wheat ia grown, or a pound of randy ia manufactured manu-factured out of raw materials there is new wealth or value created. The in-some in-some derived from ths aale of such Broducts ia not like ths income derived |