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Show Spotlighting UTAH New York, well known publishers publish-ers have requested the Utah department of publicity and industrial in-dustrial development to furnish them with photographs of the mural paintings -which now decorate the interior of the Utah State Capitol dome. The pictures will be used in a forthcoming book by the eminent historian Charles Beard. The article will go into the club's magazine which has 15,-000 15,-000 circulation among the motor travelers of New York state. Utah's Part in Oregon Trail Told "The Highway Magazine" nationally na-tionally distributed for the past 37 years and devoted to the improvement of highways, railways rail-ways and municipalities, carries car-ries a feature in the February edition relative the "Old Ore- Harry Sherman, motion picture pic-ture producer of Hollywood, has promised a delegation of citizens from south central Utah, that in the very near future, he would personally inspect the region about Escalante with the purpose in view of filming a picture there. Contacted at the Hotel Utah by Dude Larsen and Merel Adams, Kanab; Claude Veater, H. J. Allen and Lloyd Gates of Escalante, Sherman was informed in-formed that the town of Escalante Es-calante and the scenic attractions attrac-tions of the region there about should serve as an excellent location , for the filming of a western picture the producer is planning on making in the near future. The Ulahns mentioned above are cognizant of the fact that the filming of a picture in any Utah locality means the employment of a large number of citizens and the spending of hundreds of thousands of dollars dol-lars in the area. Alta "Tourist Gold Mine" "Switzerland is mining millions mil-lions from the pockets of rich tourists visiting her ski slopes" declared Werner Urob, coach of the Swiss ski teams in Utah here to take part in the National Na-tional Ski races, "and Utah can do the same at Alta," he said after inspecting Utah's major ski area. Grob's statement was seconded second-ed by Lowell Thomas, nation-all nation-all known radio commentator. "Alta can become the finest skiing center in North America," Thomas said. Both visitors were emphatic in stating that Alta must be properly developed to further draw national tourist business. Doubleday and Company of gon Trail." Titled "Hell on Wheels" the story describes the route of the famous trail and some of the incidents in connection con-nection with travelers who passed over the same. Some of the material in the article along with a picture of Bear Lake was furnished the magazine by the Utah department of publicity and industrial development. devel-opment. While in the main, the Old Oregon Trail skirted Utah, part of the users of the route chose to travel around the west side of Bear Lake in Utah. Well marked wagon ruts and Indian stories testify that many Oregon Trail travelers passed through the Bear Lake valley. The Schenectady Auto Club of New York has asked the department of publicity and industrial development for a full length feature article illustrated il-lustrated by 12 photos relative to Utah's scenic attractions and land marks. Cash assest of American farmers farm-ers increased from less than 85,000,000,000 to more than $20- j 000,000,000 during the war pe- I riod. |