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Show Spotlighting I UTAH 1 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 ; to L'tah's plans for the establish-: establish-: ment of tourist welcome posts now being planned for eight ma-! ma-! jor highway entrances into Utah by the State Department of Pub-! Pub-! licity. The story has been sent to the Post accompanied with a j picture of the architect's draw-I draw-I 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, Calif., and serving serv-ing 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 events taking place in Utah this season. Oil Showings , Edward S. Rich, Duchesne businessman and promoter of an oil well new being drilled -ten miles south of Myton and 75 miles west of Rangely, Colo., visited vis-ited the Utah State department of publicity offices last week and showed a bottle of crude oil he had extracted from bailings of his well how down to 2050 feet. Mr. Rich says that the best indication of oil, "is oil itself." Wants Ltah Information The National Association of Travel Officials, an organization with representatives in every-state every-state in the Union and whose interests are promoting the tourist tour-ist and vacation business, have asked the Utah publicity department depart-ment for some pertinent information. infor-mation. 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 busi-ness worth to your state?" While there is no way to determine in actual figures the exact amount Utah received from the tourist, it is a fact that last August was Utah's peak tourist month, and that every hour of that month tourists arrived in Salt Lake at te' rate of 463 per hour or 7.7 every minute. August normally accounts for 26 per cent of the year's tourist business in the capital city and on that basis, it has been determined that Salt Lake was visited by some 1,324,-900 1,324,-900 tourists in 1046 and that they spent for food, shelter, transportation, souvenirs and travel needs, the sum of $10,873,-- 500. On the basis of Salt Lake's visitation, it is estimated that the entire state of Utah received the sum of approximately $80,-000,000 $80,-000,000 during 1946 from visitors and tourists. Utah's prewar annual an-nual tourist income was only $37,000,000. The Utah department of publicity pub-licity expects the 1947 tourist expenditure ex-penditure in.. Utah to exceed $100,000,000 mark, and foresees the time. in the near future when the figure will be doubled or I even tripled. |