Show Spotlighting UTAH 1 Colorado Interested The Denver Post is interest interest- interested ed in Utah's activities to attract tourists and in consequence has asked the Utah State Depart ment of Publicity and Industrial Industrial rial Development for a story They particularly want details relative Utah's plans for the es of tourist welcome posts now being b int planned for forel eight el ht major highway entrances Into Utah by the State Stale Depart Department ment of Publicity and Industrial Development The story has I be bp bet n sent to the Post accompanied with a picture of the ar or lh tp ts drawing of the th live tive western ranch house styled welcome stations The first two of which are scheduled for erection tion at St George Geor e and Kanab Wants Utah Program The Desert Magazine pub pub- published fished at El Centro Centre California and serving the Intermountain and West coast ast areas has asked the Utah State Department of Publicity for a full program pro of the yearly events scheduled in Inthe inthe the state during 1947 The pro gram has been sent to the maga maga- magazine magazine zine and is also available to others interested Interest d in events tak tak- tak taking ing place in Utah this season Oil Ol Showings Edward S Rich Duchesne Due businessman and promoter of an oil well now being drilled ten miles mlles south of Myton My ton and 75 73 miles mlles west of Rangely Colorado visited the Utah State Depart Depart- Department ment of Publicity offices last week and showed a bottle of crude rude oil he had extracted from of his well now down downto downto to 2050 feet Mr Rich says that the best indication of oil is oil itself Wants Want Utah Information The National Association of Travel Officials an organization with representatives in every state in the Union and whose in in- in interests are promoting the tour tour- tourist 1st and vacation business have asked the Utah Publicity Depart Depart- Department ment for some pertinent information information mation The information they state will be used in making a national survey of the tourist business Their first question asked is What was the 1946 tourist bus iness mess worth to your state While there is no way to determine ac- ac ac figures the exact amount Utah received from the tourist it is a fact that last August was Utah's peak tourist month wasI and I that every hour of that month tourists arrived in Salt Lake City at the rate of per hour or 77 every minute August nor mally accounts for 26 per cent of the years year's tourist business in Inthe inthe the Capitol city and on that basis it has been determined that Salt Lake City was visit visit- visited visited ed by some tourists in 1946 and that they spent for food shelter transportation souvenirs and travel needs the sum of On the basis of Salt Lake City's visitation it itis itis is estimated that the entire state of Utah received the sum of ap ap- ap approximately proximately during 1946 1046 from visitors and tourists i Utah's prewar annual tourist income was only The Utah Department of Pub Pub- Publicity expects ts the 1947 tourist expenditure in Utah to exceed mark and foresees the time in the near future when the figure will be doubled or even tripled |