Show 1 Spotlighting S pot 1 19 h I UTAH UTAH-Ii I I COLORADO INTERESTED I I The Denver Post Is Interested in Utah Utah's j activities to attract tourists and In con con- conI has asked the Utah State te De De- Department Department Department I of Publicity and Industrial Development for tor a a. story They particularly particularly want details relative Utah's plans 1 for fo the establishment of tourist welcome welcom posts po ts now being planned for eight major malot majorI I highway entrances Into Utah by the State Department of Publicity and In In- Industrial In- In Industrial Industrial Development The story has been sent to the Post accompanied with a picture of the architects architect's drawing of the i attractive western ranch house styled I welcome stations The first two of ot which j are scheduled for erection at St. St George J U I I i and Kanab WI WANTS W. TS UTAH PROGRAM 1 The Desert Magazine published at El Centro California and serving erving the In- In Intermountain Intermountain and West-coast West areas has asked the Utah State Department of Publicity for tor a full program of ot the yearly events scheduled In the state during 1947 The program has hIlS been sent to tho magazine and is also available to others Interested In events taking place in Utah this season I OIL SHOWINGS I Edward S. S Rich Duchesne Duehesne businessman business business- businessman and promoter of at an oil well now man being drilled ten miles mUes south of Myton My ton i and 75 miles mlles west of Rangely Colorado I Department of visited Publicity the offices Utah last State week and showed JI JIa a bottle of crude oil oU he be had extracted from ballings of his well now down to toI I I 2050 feet Mr Rich says that the best best- I Indication of ot oil Is oil Itself j jA WANTS A TS UTAH U INFORMATION The National Association of ot Travel Traver I Officials an organization with v th representatives representatives in every state in the Union A AI j I I and whose Interests are promoting the th I tourist and vacation business have ask- ask askI r 1 I ed eel the Utah Publicity Department for some feme pertinent Information The oration matlon t matton they state will be used In mak- mak j ling lag a a. national survey of the tourist busi- busi busiS j S ness j Their first question asked Is What i was the 1946 tourist business worth to your state While there Is no way to toI I I determine In actual figures the exact amount Utah received from the tourist jit It Is a fact that last August was Utah's i peak tourist month and that every hour of that month tourists arrived in Salt Salti j i Lake City at the rate of ot per hour Or br 77 every minute August normally ac- ac acs j s counts for 26 per cent of the years year's tour- tour tourist 1st business in the Capitol city and on that J that basis basl it has been determined that Salt Salt Lake City was visited by some 1 I- tourists In 1946 and that they i spent for food tood shelter transportation I souvenirs and travel needs ne s. s the sum of I On the basis of Salt Lake City's visitation it Is estimated d that the I entire state of Utah received the thee sum of approximately during 1946 from from visitors and tourists Utah's pre pre- prewar prewar 1 war annual tourist income was only The Utah Department of ot Publicity ex expects the 1947 tourist to dst expenditure In InI I Utah to exceed mark and andI foresees the time In fn the near n future I when the figure will be doubled or O even tripled f f v- v V t |