Show Spot spotlighting fighting U TA H UTAH AWAITS TOURIST GOLD automobile association tion recently carried on a surveys among its in members embers to learn irani something about the tha habits 0 of motor tourists aud and the following fols report on oil tho the subject lia has s been received by the utah allent ment of oe publicity and industrial development average average number of per car 3 average int mileage leage for or all tripe trips 2575 average number of days daya spent tit in actual travel si average number of days spent on 11 trip 16 26 24 percent of members stopped at hotels exclusively 25 percent of members stopped at motor courts exclusively 16 15 percent of oan members stopped at it tourist homes hoines 34 percent centon of meni bors stopped at all i three since tile the 1110 of alie lie AAA Is an excellent cross section of the Aine americans rIcans who will take vacations valadon s tills this season the above figures could well be applied to that portion of the who plan trips by private automobile tile tho full worth of tile the automobile tourist to cities towns and areas through ugh which they travel Is shown in the following break down of 0 tile the tourist dollar by tho the U 8 department of commerce gas oil 20 cents food 20 cents lodging 20 cents merchandise ill r 20 cents entertainment and miscellaneous expense 20 bents cents WAN TED MARKET T FOR SILK HILK uncle sam to Is stuck with warehouses loaded with japanese silk Is is the latest r report train from the alie far east cast it seems that consumers consume is have forgotten the allure of oe tile the product of the silk bilk worm arid and importers of japanese silk would welcome promotional ideas that would put silk back lit in fashion again abhi all of which reminds us that the silk bilk industry once flourished in utah but went to thy dogs because of competition from japanese silk speaking peak fiig of dogs reminds us that due to scarcity of cotton and wool lit hi utah in pioneer days dogs d word were shorn annually and their hair cloth jai band ator na erfal hair I 1 a ir also was gathered fron from sage rush brush arid and combined with cows hair and used tor for weaving blankets at COLORADO RIVER niver GAINS IN popularity arthur chaffin Chaff ln resident of hite utah and terry ferry operator on the colorado says that people have visited that point since april first most of them were interested lit in making a boat trip on the colorado included in the visitors were a large number of utah boy scouts who safely navigated the miles from hite to leos ferry in ocean going rubber boats harry aleson who runs regular passenger trips down the river recently returned up river from loos lees ferry to hite in 15 hours in a 16 foot boat powered by a 22 horsepower motor stewart campbell of layton has received ro c elved from the state a certificate of common carrier to take tourists into southeastern utah lie he will also Inn boat trips for tourists on the colorado river |