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Show Wyoming Asks For Share In Benefits From Dam Projects Wyoming has now made it a three-state fight to share in the benefits which will accrue with the construction of three major i dam projects of the' federal gov-j gov-j ernment's huge Colorado river I slorag'3 program. The two state controversy had been raging between Utah and Colorado and became a three-affair three-affair when Wyoming interests last week demanded that access roads be built to the Flaming Gorge and Echo Park dam sites. M. M. Fidlar, chairman of the Southwestern Wyoming Industrial Indus-trial Development committee, said the newly organized group will ask construction and improvement im-provement of a multi-million dollar x oad southward from Green River to the Flaming Gorge site in northeastern Utah, and thence to Vernal, where it could serve as a construction route for the Echo Park dam as well. duplicating its performance of 1945 and making the second time in the last two decades that New York has headed the per capita income list. In 1944 the lead position was taken by California Cal-ifornia for the first time, reflecting re-flecting the boom in war production", pro-duction", and pHicularly aircraft, air-craft, in that yeaf. These and other changes in per capita income ranking in recent years represent a healthy heal-thy development and are indicative indic-ative of a wider distribution of income than existed before the war. For from 1941 on back to 1929. the District of Columbia consistently led the nation in per capita income. This was the period in which the foundations I for the great growth of Government Govern-ment were being laid, and in a number of those years the per capita income of the nation's capital ran double or more the national average. For the nation1 as a whole, per capita income payments to individuals in 1948 set a new high average of $1,410. This was 107 per cent above the 1929 figure and 145 per cent higher than in 1940. Four regions exceeded this percentage gain in the national average. For the eleven states in the Southeast, average per capita income last year rose to $957. While still the lowest for the nation, the 1948 figure for 'this region was 178 per cent 1 above 1929 and 197 per cent greater than in 1940. With regard re-gard to the nation's total income in-come payments, the Southeast, thanks to growing industrialization industriali-zation combined with agricultural agricultur-al prosperity, has increased its share by nearly one-third since 1929. 111 The Northwest last year duplicated dup-licated its 1947 performance of topping the national average in per capita income payments to individuals. Before 1947 its average av-erage per capita income payments pay-ments had regularly run below the average for the country as a whole. Its 1948 per capita income in-come of $1,413 was 165 per cent over 1929 and 211 per cent over 1940. At the same time, its share of the nation's total income in-come in 1948 was 10 per cent higher than in 1929. The Central States likewise enjoyed per capita income gains but showing a gain comparable com-parable to that of the Southeast in its share of the national income in-come last year as against 1929. New England and the Middle Eastern State, two other traditionally tra-ditionally high income regions, have lost ground in the last two decades, both in percentage percen-tage of per capita income gains as compared with the national average and in their share of the nation's total income. |