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Show Spotlighting Utah The Denver Post is interested in Utah's activities to attract tourists and in consequence has asked the Utah State Department Depart-ment of Publicity and Industrial Development for a story. They particularly want details relative rela-tive to Utah's plans- for establishment estab-lishment of tourist welcome posts now being planned for eight major ma-jor highway entrances into Utah by the State Department of Publicity Pub-licity and Industrial Development. Develop-ment. The story has been sent to the Post, accompanied with "a picture of the architect's drawing draw-ing of the attractive western ranch house styled welcome stations. sta-tions. The first two of which are scheduled for erection at St George and Kanab. Wants Utah Program The Desert Magazine, published publish-ed at El Centro, California and serving the Intermountain and West Coast areas, has asked the Utah State Department of Publicity Pub-licity for a full program of the yearly events scheduled in the state during 1947. The program has been sent to the magazine and is also available to others interested in-terested in events taking place in Utah this season. - Oil Showings Edward S. Rich, Duchesne businessman and promoter of an oil well now being drilled ten miles south of Myton and 75 miles west of Rangely, Colorado visited the Utah State Department Depart-ment of Publicity offices last week and showed a bottle of crude oil he had extracted from bailings of his well now down to 2050 feet. Mr. Rich says that the best indication of oil, "Is oil itself." Wants Utah Information The National Association of Travel Officials, an organization with representatives in every state in the Union and whose interests in-terests are promoting the tourist and vacation business, has asked the Utal Publicity Department for some pertinent information, The information, they state, will be used in making a national survey of the tourist business. Their first question asked is: "What was the 1946 tourist business bus-iness worth to your state?" While there is no way to determine deter-mine in actual figures the exact amount Utah received from the tourist, it is a fact that last August Aug-ust was Utah's peak month, and that every hour of that month tourists arrived in Salt Lake jCity at the rate of 463 per hour or 77 every minute. August normally nor-mally accounts for 26 per cent of the year's tourist business in the Capitol city and on that bas is, it has been determined that Salt Lake City was visited by some l,324r900 tourists in 1946 and that they spent for food, shelter, transportation, souvenirs souven-irs and travel needs, the sum of S19,873,500. On the basis of Salt Lake City's visitation, it is estimated esti-mated that the entire state of Utah received the sum of approximately ap-proximately $80,000,000 during 1946 from visitors and tourists. Utah's prewar annual tourist in come was only $37,000,000. The Utah Department of Publicity Pub-licity expects the 1947 tourist expenditure in Utah to exceed $100,000,000 mark, and foresees fore-sees the time in the near future when the figure will be doubled or even tripled |
