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Show Can you imagine a market area which adds a population equal to a city the size of Pittsburgh, Pa., or Seattle, Wash, every year, and which added people on a daily basis ba-sis at the rate of 670 from 1950 to 1960? That's what has been happening hap-pening in metropolitan Los Angeles, Calif, which has a current population popula-tion in excess of seven million (includes (in-cludes Los Angeles and Orange counties), and it's only part of the market that can be reached with overnight delivery of products from a plant located in Iron County, Utah. In addition, Iron County is positioned posi-tioned at virtually the geographic center of a five-and-a-half state area ar-ea consisting of Arizona, New Mexi co, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and the southern half of California. From 1950 to 1960 all of these states were among the ten fastest growing states in the nation, adding population popu-lation at a rate roughly three times ' the national average. During the period from the 1960 U. S. Census to July 1962, These same states accel- erated their growth rates. Nevada i had a 17.5 gain in this period, i Arizona rose by 15.9 and Utah i boosted its ranking from tenth in i the country to 7th with 8.6. As a region the West had a rise of 8, the South 4, the North . Central States 2.1 and the North-: North-: west 2.2. This is the area Business Week Magazine has described as "truly the first and richest of the new American markets." Per capita income in-come of its more than 16 million people exceeds that of any other region. Iron County sits as the hub of a great wheel with respect to this great and growing market Southern Califoria being one section sec-tion of the rim. From here routes are shorter to all major population centers of the Southwest than from any other single point For a firm seeking to serve all the Southwest from a single point an Iron County location is a distinct industrial advantage. Geographic location, along with transportation, and a superior labor supply, complete com-plete the favorable industrial location loca-tion equation offered to modern industry in-dustry by Iron County, Utah. |