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Show TOURISTS AN ASSET T'HAT tourist travel on U. S. 91 is an asset the value of which few of us realize, can readily be seen from figures compiled on numbers passing over the highway and the estimated amount they spend. All towns along the route should unite in advertising their particular conlmunities, to the end that the scenic attractions of southern Utah be kept before the traveling public at all times. The following editorial is taken from the .Las Vegas Age: "According to Nye Wilson, Wil-son, secretary of the Las Vegas Ve-gas chamber of commerce, 190,000 travelers passed through Las Vegas during 7 the year 1931. 3 It is estimated they spent $1,900,000 in this city, a 3 tidy sum sufficient in itself 5 to justify the existence of i a prosperous little city. "That would be an income 1 of approximately $1G0,000 a month or $40,000 per week 1 or nearly $7,000 a day. 1 "The estimate is, we be-, be-, lieve, reasonably accurate. It : contemplates the expenditure I : of ten dollars for each per-;json per-;json who comes. A few of i them stop only long enough . to buy gas and oil and a bite i to eat. Others stop over . night, have several meals, a hotel room, go to the show, visit the local attractions, and average considerably over ov-er ten dollars expenditure. "Whatever the exact figure fig-ure may be, it is obvious that tourist travel is of tremendous tremen-dous value. It ought to be carefully encouraged and nurtured. And for every dollar dol-lar spent presenting the attractions at-tractions of 91, ten dollars in real money will return." |