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Show 1 UTAH DECEMBER I SALESjNCREASE ' While the dollar volume of ratal! aalae for Utah atom In December I rose 1.1 par cant over the corre- apondlng month of 1M7, the dollar volume of retail aalae In Bait Lake City fall three-tenthe of 1 par cent, aocording to monthly estimates of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. The figures ara based on confidential reporta of 35t Inde- Kndent stores, 134 of which are In It Lake City. However, Salt Lake City stores cored a 53 per cent gain In December De-cember sales over November. H3a. while the Mate as a whole showed only a M.I per cent gain for the month to month period. Forty-aix reporting storss In Oar-e'en Oar-e'en showed a 1 per cent gain from the 1837 comparative and an 11 per cent gain from November, the previous month. Twenty-two stores In Provo recorded re-corded a I 8 per cent gain from December. De-cember. 1937. and a 17 1 per cent rise over November, 193a. Logan, with It stores reporting, nad December salea that were 14 1 per cent less than a year ago, but 11. T per cent higher than a month go. |