Show spotlighting UTAH UTA utah gains in coal output utah is a very important state in the production of coal and in in coal reserves already located and surveyed in utah during 1947 tons ofa of coal al here were mined this was tons more than was mined during 1916 1946 and far ahead of the 1920 1924 everage which was tons inspire in spite of the fact that there are extensive deposits of bituminous coal inthe in the west the fact remains that 93 percent ol of the production takes place east of the mississippi river naturally the production takes place where the population and industry is s located during the past recent years there has been a shift in population to the west and this is indicated in the recent increased production of coal utah ranks fourth in the nation in the original coal reserves ot of bituminous coal As of janu uary 1 1948 percent of reserve is still intact indicating di very little of our coal possibilities have as yet been touched total reserves of easily mined coal amount to 93 tons 0 utah low in consumption utah ranked third from the bo bottom atom in per capita consumption of ci garets the per capita consumption of ci garets in utah averaged 1340 the two states T that net ranked lower than utah were oklahoma 1336 and arkansas with 1070 per capita these two states have a high rate of tax per package five and six cents respectively ively which causes many of their consumers to order ci garets by mail from firms in states that are tax free per capita consumption in other western states levying taxes on ci garets was montana 2660 2960 new mexico 2060 arizona 2 washington 2060 and nevada hig hestin the nation I 1 attractions in national parks located in the west the two greatest public recreational attractions in the national parks supervision are two man made lakes lake mead in nevada and arizona and lake texoma in texas and oklahoma lake texoma drew 3 visitors and lake mead yellowstone park went over th the million mark with all utah parks and monuments showed increased visitors in 1948 over 1947 as follows the 1947 figure is given first zion national park bryce national park 15 arches national monument cedar break monument din baur national monument 10 I 1 I 1 Hoven week national monument natural fatura j bridges monument 97 1387 gos cave 60 0 dwelling building up in utah during the first eight months of 1948 dwelling building construction st permits amounted to a volume of in utah which chic h was six million dollars more than for the same period last year in salt lake city for this same period the permits amounted to compared with 7 for the same period in the previous year in salt lake city new units were started in the eight month 1948 period compared with units during the same period in 1947 |