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Show business Activity Increased by 6.8 in Moab During Last Year lUMIU'NN CUMl IU--,Cl0il l S I"'1 l ; Miub I.inI ''. -u"- (ivd bv I t il' l'unda-u, l'unda-u, l! Piau 10-.iOtrch 10-.iOtrch i'ti;.un.-.iiun. 1m- llu Nt.il'' a. whole, - itu tola I volume ol biiNi-m-ss aoiiU rose by lt' :i ,vr cont in L7-. Die Foundation report i" stiiuss lliat fiiVNS sales, . ss measured by local Vilcs tax collodions. ,',mnmtod to $H.i"to.OUO. .'in Mlt during V This computes wiih total business acii ii of . i3.;;S.lHH in h'7l and ; 514J34.HOO in h't;;. l'ho study i bused "'i an a:Uhsis of local option SAlc's ta collodions through February , L7a. Ac oo i d in to the Foundation, the lurgest . pen'entu.sO guins in " business volume during 197.' occurred in Finery County UtvV'.. Duchesne ' Ciunty iSS-'A and I intuh County iM-'..'. A ,uw major power sonorat in?; f.iciliiv is under eon-, struction in F in e ry Cou:,.t.'1. while extensive .- oil exploration aeti ities are bo ins carried out in Duchesne and I intuh Counties. Anions the major cities for which daui are ,: available, the groutest cans in 1972 were recorded re-corded b RiHisevelt t64" Orem (,4S'.. Yor-nal Yor-nal 37. and American : Fork t,3TV Cities with ' the largest overall in-: in-: creases in business vol- - ume since 1967 include Orem (.204 - Roosevelt G9- St. George UoO 'V and Slurray U-H-'A. Total sales volumes throughout the State amounted to nearly $3.3 -' billion last year, an in- - crease of lt.3"j over ' 1971. The study" notes that the percentage sain exceeded IS per cent "' during each of tho first two quarters of theyear. but slacked off slightly to about 14-1 2 per cent h the last half of the .year. Although part of the increased n.iIon volume dm in,; m.lv i ti abulable lo higher prices, the adjusted rise of IJ ti per cent, after allowance lor inflation, still was very impressive, impres-sive, according to the report. In the preceding ear sales volume in I'iah, expressed in terms of constant dollars, dol-lars, rose 10.2 per cent. I comparison, during tho liiiUI to 1 it 70 decade, the average increase, alter adjustments for inflation, in-flation, amounted to only about LS per cent per year. In other words, the average rise in business busi-ness volume during the past two ears has been four times as sroal as tho av erase inc rease ex -perienced durins the l'.'t0-l;70 decade.' Over the past five yours, the total volume of business activity in I tab has risen 71 per cent. About half of this increase was due to in- Union. hen sales volumes vol-umes are adjusted for changes in (lie consum-ors consum-ors price index, the increase in-crease between l'.lti? and ll.'7J amounts lo ltd per cent. In the preceding fiw-your period (I'.lti'J-l;t7), (I'.lti'J-l;t7), the adjusted rise equaled III per cent. Foundation analysts point out that more than a I per cent of ihe total business activ ilv in I'lah is concentrated in Salt I .aho County . Sa It I .ake City proper account s lor more than half Ihe Salt Lake County total and about per con! of the total sales for ihe entire Slate. Durins recent years, howev or, there has been a shift of business away from the central business busi-ness district to suburban subur-ban areas. Between I'.lli7 and 111 71 business activ -ity in Sail Lake City proper pro-per increased by -IS per cent compared with a rise of llj per cent for the area of Salt Lake County outside the City . |