Show Spotlighting UTAH I P. P 1 I. I I 1 n. n SENDS GEOLOGIST TO MINING MEET SlEET Ar An investigation into the costs sub sub- sidles import fees foes and Incentives in the American Mining Industry is now being carried out by the Senate Public Lands committee Following a request to ernOl Herbert B. B Maw aw that Utah be re represented represented represented re- re presented the Utah Department of Publicity Pub Pub- and Industrial Development has hassent hassent hassent sent Its Us geologist geologist Alfred Alfred M. M Buranek Duranek of thu tho raw haw Materials Division to Denver to attend the hearings Buranek who works under the supervision of Commissioner Arthur L. L Crawford will present pertinent pertin- pertin ent eni nt testimony relative to Utah's mining activities during the tho past ten years MORMONS FOR FOIL N l NAMING O JOSHUA TREE TIlES Fortnight a California news maga- maga sine credits the tho Mormons for the name namo Joshua as lIS applied to the tho thorny trees of tho southwest desert A current issue of tho the publication says The Joshua Is still till relatively undiscovered by the tour- tour st st. Named probably by the Mormons it has been part of the National Park lark system since 1936 1938 The Utah Department of Publicity points out that few are aware that hat the Beehive State has hIlS a Joshua forest orest Utah's area of prickly trees start 20 miles west of St. St George and spreads spreads' out over thousands of acres of Utah mountain and desert desert- land desert land in the ex- ex reme southwest corner of the state Traversed by Highway U U. 5 8 S. 91 the Joshua Josma Jos- Jos hua ma forest is 18 an interesting sight to tourists tourist UTAh UTAH lI FORESTS PROVE IROE MAJOR J TOURIST LUlU LUllS Tho The Uinta National Forest that great forested area lying northeast east and southeast of Provo drew campers camp camp- ers era picnickers and tourists during 1947 This group spent man days Inthe in inthe inthe the area The 1947 visitation shows considerable considerable considerable con con- Increase over the year previous proving that Utah's forests are becoming increasingly popular The National Forest located In Inthe inthe inthe the southeast section of Utah drew a record crowd of visitors In la 1947 The visitors I spent man-days man inthe in inthe the he area THANKS FOR EVERYTHING E SAY NAVAJOS NAV Navajo Indians numbering some recently gathered at Harry clouding's lodge in Utah's Monument Valley and solemnly signed by thumbprints a document which in says Thanks Thana for or everything sent to our people who were starving and anti in a state of tion CLIPPING TURNS UP VI INTERESTING UTAH ITEMS Subscribing to a national clipping Bureau service the Utah Department of Publicity occasionally deceives out out out-of- of- of state clippings which indicates Utah's growing popularity as a news and feature feature feature fea fea- fea- fea ture source The January 3 issue of the Christian tian Science Monitor published In Boston Doston Massachusetts carries a full 1 page picture of Alta Mis and skiers j In action on on the cover of its magazine section The picture is a reproduction of a water watercolor color color- by by Dwight C. C well known Eastern artist and Is in color It is noted however that the word Alta is spelled Altah While the matter of the city of Wendover Wendover Wendover Wend- Wend over trying to secede from Utah is ancient ancient an an- dent history locally some somo feature writer worked his imagination overtime and went to the trouble of ot doing an Illus Illustrated story on on the subject For example an Ohio paper comes out with a two- two column map of Utah the entire western quarter of which is shaded and which the caption points out out 1 it 14 a section of the state that wants to secede from Utah and become District of Shangri La so BO its 2100 people can live e and act as they want To the folks living In the western quarter of Utah bounded on the north by Idaho I and the tho south by Arizona this is 18 certainly news and Indicates the extent to which out- out of state of-state state writers will go to cash in on value Utah's hi feature I |