| Show the dude ranch business 1 I dude ranchers are facing a cap acety season holiday magazine re ports to the utah department of publicity and industrial develop ment they say colorado has 42 dude ranches able to accommodate 1500 1 guests montana and wyom ing dude ranches have facilities for 12 guests dude ranches in utah it appears are few despite the fact that the beehive state has everything dear to the heart of the eastern vaca zionist who wants to come west and move into clean cozy rooms for two weeks on a real ranch that can offer good meals hot baths comfortable beds riding horses fishing streams forested mountains and guide service centennial rush bush slow in starting the utah motor court assoria tion reports that there are plenty of vacancies in motor courts in the salt lake area and that as yet no centennial summer scramble for sleeping rooms has been eapen encee in fact it was reported that most motor courts and hotels have more vacancies now than during comparable periods in the prewar years end rationing says utah sugar official I 1 feel sugar rationing should be lifted immediately so that those who need sugar to preserve fruits will have enough sugar to process the nation s fruit crops says D E general manager utah idaho sugar company told sercie tary of agriculture clinton P an derson last week in washington D C warned that if rationing is lifted price controls on sugar must be left on to prevent the price skyrocketing above the reach of people who need it national magazine features utah and the mormons perhaps one of the best publicity plugs utah will get this year is in the june issue of pathfinder magazine a 54 year old news pub li cation of tremendous circulation among businessmen in the united states it is reported to have sev eral million readers A picture in natural color of the mormon tern pie also the words utah the mormon conquest is cover feat ared the four page article is very well done and is accompanied by nine excellent story telling photos the most significant thing about the article is the fact that it is truthful and unbiased indicating that prejudice and ignorance con berning utah and the mormons is giving way to friendliness and un der standing no class prejudice here 1 that utah high school students are a democratic group is indi indicated bated in the fact that salt lake cites west high school schools s associated girl council has named miss lily lu magai magal president of the council miss kumagai is of japanese ex traction oil seekers persistent despite the fact that test wells in the uintah basin persistently re fuse to indicate a potential oil field the carter oil company will start its second wildcat test well five miles west of vernal number one well struck a huge gas flow at feet but choked up with mud at feet for fifty years oil hopes in the basin have cally yet still no oil oddly enough however this basin which refuses to yield oil lies iles ad jacent to the rangely langely Colora colorado dp oil fields wherefore remore than 70 wells are in production k utah picture draws attention A large water color painting depicting the entrance of the altah pioneers into great salt lake val ley and placed on display in the penn mutual life insurance company building in philadelphia by the utah depart ement of publicity is drawing the atteA attention tion of thou sands of penn life insurance re presenta tives now in convention in that city and who are observing the comp company anys s centennial year A photo showing a crowd around the utah picture in philadelphia has been supplied the utah publicity department by oliver P kernodle salt lake city mrs G L huff spent memorial day in oasis mr huff joined her on sunday and they are returning to tooele thoele this week spotlighting UTAH utah awaits tourist gold the american automobile ass ocia tion recently carried on a sur vey among its members to learn something about the habits of mo tor tourists and the following re port on the subject has been re by the utah department of publicity and industrial develop ment average number of tourists per car 3 average mileage f for 0 r a all I 1 I 1 trips 2575 2 average number of days spent in actual travel 8 average number of days spent en trip 16 26 of members stopped at hotels exclusively 25 of members stopped at motor courts exclusively 15 of members stopped at tourist homes 34 of members stopped at tit all three since the membership of the AAA is an excellent cross section of the americans who will take vacations this season the above figures could well be ap phed plied to that portion of the vaca zionists who plan trips by private automobile the full worth of the automobile tourist to cities towns and areas through which they travel is shown in the following break down of the tourist dollar by the U S department of commerce gas oil 20 cents food 20 cents lodging 20 cents merchandise 20 cents entertainment and ciscel laneous expenses 20 cents wanted market for silk uncle sam is stuck with warehouses loaded with japanese silk is the latest report from the far east it seems that consumers have forgotten the allure of the product of the silk worm and importers of japanese silk would welcome promotional ideas that would put silk back in fashion again all of which reminds us that the silk industry once flourished in utah but went to the dogs because of competition from japanese silk speaking of dogs dogg reminds us that due to scarcity of cotton and wool in utah in pioneer days dogs were shorn annually and their hair woven into cloth and used for do clo aing thing buffalo hair was gathered from sagebrush and combined with cows hair and used for weaving blankets hollywood heading for utah denver brandon kanab motel operator and booster for southern utah as a motion picture location says there will be plenty of movie activity in his area this summer he reports that twentieth century fox will arrive in kanab june 20 to make a super epic in color tit led the green hills of wyoming farther east over in san juan county harry goulding of bonu ment valley fame is trying to get an airstrip in shape for the land ing of big transport planes from hollywood carrying entire compan les at provo gronway parry has been granted a certificate of nee etsity by the state pf utah to fur nish transportation to a movie corn com pany that plans to use several lo 10 in that area for the film ing of a picture utah approaches tourist season studies made of the habits of tourists indicate that the vacation season starts in june with 6 6 per cent of the nations nation s workers tak ing their annual vacations in july the figures jump to percent and in august percent drop ping back to 14 1 percent in sept ember individual income figures indi cate that despite high costs of liv ing 1947 tourists will have plenty of money to pour into holiday and recreation channels for the first quarter of 1947 government statis tices cices reveal income payments were at the annual rate of about 7 percent above the full year record total of in 1946 non agricultural income and salaries went up as a re suit of higher wages but farmers r receipts dipped slightly because of declining june ie Is dairy month dairy month for the eleventh year has been proclaimed in utah during june every effort will be made to promote the use of milk and milk products |
