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Show i Spotlighting Utah Snowfall Facts With heavy snows in the mountains moun-tains and light snows in the valleys, val-leys, ample water is assured Utah for next season's crops. Deep snow in Utah mountains is like money in the bank. Heavy snowfall is equally important to other states which depend on irrigation. ir-rigation. Snow falls, as a rule, during some months of the year in 47 states, with Florida being the exception. ex-ception. Colorado gets the deepest deep-est white blanket with a yearly , average of 76.4 inches. Wyoming I comes next with 65.7 inches, Montana next with 53.0, and Utah with 51.0 inches. Primitive Trails Lure Scouts On the last three days of December, De-cember, the explorer scouts of the Salt Lake Council will don their warmest clothing, snow shoes and knap sacks and hike over the old Mormon Trail between be-tween Salt Lake and Hcnefer. They will spend two nights In the open. Next April, the Senior scouts of the Salt Lake Council will embark em-bark on a tour of the Colorado River, beginning April 5. In August, Aug-ust, the Senior scouts will enjoy a "high adventure trek" into the wildest area of the High Uintas. The last named trip will take the scouts into a mountain and forest region rarely penetrated by man. Are We starving A Utahn, D. Clegg, who has , devoted several years to research i on foods and especially celery ' points out that it is quite possible I that we are starving. While we I get plenty of food, Clegg points I out, we are probably eating I fruits, vegetables and grains which no longer contain enough certain vital minerals so important import-ant to health. "Healthy plants mean healthy people," says Clegg. "You can't raise a strong race on a mineral depleted soil." In support of his claims Clegg has had soil samples from various fields analyzed and can readily show the soils in many instances are below standard in calcium, iron and 14 other important minerals. min-erals. He maintains that if farm- j ers would put back in the soil the 16 minerals now being depleted, vegetables would be insect resistant, resis-tant, disease resistant, and because be-cause of their high mineral con-lent con-lent would demand, premium prices from consumers. West To Lure Tourists A recent survey, conducted by five leading national magazines and other agencies, reveals that the famed attractions of the West will lure one out of every five American vacationers the coming com-ing season. The survey indicated that the vacation trend toward the West is increasing. Choice Celery Sent Away More than 12,000 packages of extra fine celery has been sent by Utahns to individuals throughout through-out the nation, it is reported by Salt Lake firms who make a specialty spe-cialty of shipping fancy celery. Kaiser To Operate In Utah Henry J, Kaiser officials report re-port that they are paying $1,150,-000 $1,150,-000 for the 'Tronton and Sunny-side Sunny-side coke ovens blast furnace." They expect them to be in operation oper-ation by next April. The plants are in central and southeastern Utah, and will turn out pig iron. Professor Defends Utah Tax Rates "Utah is not a high tax state," claims Dr. Dilworth Walker, dean of the University of Utah school of business. He maintains that state, gas, income and sales taxes in Utah are as low or lower low-er than those of other Western States. Utah Business Expands The Federal Reserve Bank of Safl Francisco says Utah's loan volume in 1947 is 29 million dol- . Jars above 1946, indicating a healthy growth of business and a continuing return to peacetime economy. Gains Seen In Utah Industry, Agriculture Plans for developing Utah's water resources, if completed successfully, may well double the agriculture wealth of the State, says the Colorado River committee com-mittee report issued in Washington, Wash-ington, D. C. Maw Sees Huge Expansion Program governor neroert a. Maw predicts pre-dicts that "Utah will become the oil center of the United States, even if we don't get a drop of oil from wells in Utah. "Geneva Steel," he says, "will be the heart of a vast manufacturing manufac-turing empire. "The war," he pointed out. "would still be going on if it had not been for the great contribution contribu-tion of the Utah Copper Company Com-pany Mine (now Kennecot Copper) Cop-per) to the war effort." |