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Show Spotlighting 1 UTAH I Utah Industry on the Move Several hundred business men from all sections of the state visited vis-ited the new seven million dollar dol-lar cement factory at Croyden when the plant held an open house, after its completion by the Ideal Cement Co. This highly high-ly modernized plant takes the gray limestone from the mountains moun-tains of the community and turns it into a fine construction cement at the rate of 4000 barrels per day. The old plant, still in production pro-duction puts out 2000 barrels per day. New storage capacity has been provided for 180,000 barrels bar-rels of cement. Dwelling Building Up In Utah During the first eight months of 1948 dwelling building construction con-struction permits amounted to a volume of $22,489,000 in Utah which was six million dollars more than for the same period last year. In Salt Lake City for this same period the permits amounted to $10,280,000 compared with $7,-738,000 $7,-738,000 for the same period in the previous year. In Salt Lake City 987 new units were started in the eight month 1948 period compared with 820 units during the same period in 1947. Tax Collection Shows Big Gain Tax collections by the State Tax Commission for the year ending June 30, 1948 amounted to $31,940,480. This amount is three times as great as the collections col-lections made by the same commission com-mission back in 1936. In 1936 the cost of collections amounted to 4c on the dollar while the 1948 job was done at a cost of 2c per dollar collected. Taxes collected by the commission com-mission are: sales and use taxes; gasoline, individual income taxes, tax-es, corporate franchise taxes, motor vehicle ' registration fee and inheritance taxes. ' During the 1948 fiscal year 655,910 tax items were collected. 1 |