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Show Utah's Exports are Valued $153,480 Washington Xew York and Texas were preeminent among the states of the union in furnishing commodities 1927. Commerce department figures for export during the first quarter of placed the country's total merchandise merchan-dise export for the quarter at $1,175,-020,509, $1,175,-020,509, compares with $1,09S,S39.243 during the corresponding period of 1926, and credited New York wfth furnishing fur-nishing $193,190,065 and Texas $172.-035, $172.-035, 7S0. Utah's share was $153,450; Idaho. $559,924; Wyoming, $1,096,345, and Nevada, $75,775. California, placed plac-ed third, accounted for 81,244,751, while Michigan, fourth, shipped goods worth $S0,696.172. Pennsylvania was fifth, with $77.073.7.35 and New Jersey sixth with $62.492, 2S6. During the quarter, one-half of the forty-eight states increased their exports as compared com-pared with last year. |