Show I Buying In Dv Davi Above Ii Av Davis County stands out a aa asa as asa a strong market with a IJU buying buy buy- in ing power that is better than average The finding is based on a national economic survey covering the past years year's business busi busi- nc ness s activity ty i r DESPITE TilE TIDE fact that the nation was just em emerging from a depression which carried carried carried car car- ried over to the early part of 1961 business locally showed a rapid recover recovery The copyrighted rep o 0 r l' t which gives gi figures on income and spending for communities in every part of the country has just been issued by Sales l I Management IT SHOWS snows THAT income in Davis County was high in the year After payment of persona personal personal per per- sona taxes there was left net of an increase over total of How much this amounted to at al the famil family level was determined determined de de- de b by dividing the income in income in in- come by the number of oC house house- holds The Thc average a per household household household house house- hold was IT COMPARES with per household in the United States and with in the Mountain 1 States What was done clone with all this mone money For several months local consumers e d spending cautiously as they had durin during the depression THEN AS S. THE TILE signs of or the theu u turn became more convincing convincing ing lag they began to loosen up Toward the end of or the year when the economy was again agnin in full swing they were spending spending spend spend- ing free freely The vigor of oC this late wave of or buying turned the year into a good one for Davis Count County's s retail stores Their sales volume vol ume reached TilE THE SURVEY gives each community a rating as to tu market market mar mill ket strength taking into ac DC account oc- oc count such factors ns os income retail sales and population The composite figure is ms called an index of buying power Davis County is given an index index in dex rating of oC which means mean that it is considered capable of producing that percentage percentage per per- cent age of the nations nation's total retail business SI SINCE CE LESS than that was done last year ear percent it is apparent that some of the local business potential is yet yetto yetto et etto to be realized Economists are arc pred predicting that the nations nation's consumers will continue spending at their I present rate for some months to to come barring events on the thc international front and ins instability a at home |