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Show ! Effects of Tourist Dollar Widely Felt, States U.S. Report Tourist Travel Piovides One Of State's Best Ways to Redistribute Re-distribute Wealth SALT LAKE CITY, Utah That the tourist dollar is widely distributed dis-tributed and thus benefits people generally, is conclusively shown in figures released by the federal government and received here today. to-day. The facts developed will be presented pre-sented to members of the State legislature now in session, , in furtherance of the proposal submitted sub-mitted by Senator Will R. Holmes of Box Elder county asking for the appropriation of $100,000 for the next biennium with which to advertise Utah's scenic attractions to the world. Here is how the tourist dollar is distributed: Retail merchandise 26 cents; resturants and cafes 21 cents; hotels and tourist camps 17 cents; automobile accessories, gasoline and oil 12 cents; confectioneries 5 cents; incidentals 19 cents. Out of th 12 cents he spends (Continued on page eight) TOlKISTS DOLLAR - i . . '. t't i;' . . -. , . v i 7 ' w -' - - . .. .. . : r. -. ' : . ;-.'' "-'";" t . i -v V i!.:.i: n eroup. ' - . .. ' ::".-.:-:i..! f..r .: ,a . ... ;, j. :s .. II know u : :!..vt a r. :..h. J i-r.auct is ur.ii -h .-.ii-.i : ' .' f , ii...'. ::.!: wh.ch -nt into Us .. I":.'.-. ,o -.here w.-re sonif ,i :'or r. d-'.ru'j".:ns this ! ...,:;h acv-atnuUu-J by the b.u.ir.,'. J ratio of finished prod-i prod-i u. n to raw muter:.t:s. it would ii. be kmb' until the st.it. 'S pro-d:i.-:i.i i a uut.-nals would bo A.ih.ut money. For-.unai.-:y. tourist travel provides pro-vides one of the finest means have for this redistribution of money throughout the west. The tourist dollar i-s a restless dollar. It is forever changing hands, making its eternal ro.ind from merchant to wake earner and back to merchant, with a constant stream finding Its way into tax channels. The average citizen has little Or no conception of the va-st amount of money the tourist leaves in the state, or of the number or the financial importance of tourists. |
