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Show I Spotlighting UTAH 1 No Recession Seen For Utah Recently conducted business surveys of the west as well as in Utah indicate that Utah's population has increased 22.9 per cent since 1940, as compared with a national increase of 7.3 per cent. The westard migration of people which started during the war still shows no sign of halting, and all evidence indicates indi-cates that western population gains will be retained and con- tinue to grow. The result of such growth, wherein Utah has gained 126,000 new residents, ' means an expanded market 1 which opens the door for new business and permits the expan- sion of established businesses. Land Made Available Changes in policy and procedure proced-ure of the small land tract act of 1938 have been announced by Department of Interior Secretary, Sec-retary, J. A. Krug, at Washington, Washing-ton, which will now release small federal public lands tracts throughout Utah for purchase after a year's tenancy under government lease. Sites suitable suit-able for homes, camps, health, recreation, or business are now available throught the Bureau of Land Management offices. In Utah, leases already pending pend-ing for individual small tracts center near large recreational areas such as Bryce and Zion Canyonsand the Wayne Wonderland. Wond-erland. Oil Seekers Persistent Despite the fact that test wells in the Uintah Basin persistently per-sistently refuse to indicate a potential oil field, the Carter Oil Company will start its second se-cond wildcat test well five miles i west of Vernal. Number one I well struck a huge gas flow at 5,200 feet, but choked up with mud at 8,000 feet. For fifty years oil hopes in the Basin have periodically fluxuated yet still no oil. Oddly enough, the earliest explorers. The main exhibit occupies 34 cases and the 4 photographic display, of early Utah Indians made by J. K. Hill-ers Hill-ers of the U. S. Geological Survey Sur-vey as early us 1570. occupies the same amount of space. The story of Brigham Young's first, trek to Salt Lake valley in 1847. is recalled bv an interesting interest-ing array of documents and data on exhibition. Old books, as weir as Harper's Weekly and other magazines of the fifties, which told much of early Utah life,, have been assembled. The coming com-ing of the railroad, the driving: of the golden spike, and educational educa-tional development of the state down to the present time is depicted, de-picted, along with the state's-agricultural state's-agricultural and mineral developments. devel-opments. The exhibit has probably prob-ably the largest display of Utah music ever gathered together, including folklore ' songs made famous during the trek across-the across-the plains. 1 This Utah exhibit will be on: display throughout the entire summer in the nation's capitoL however, this basin, which re-' fuses to yield oil, lies adjacent to the Rangely, Colorado oil fields where more than 70 wells are in production. Utah Picture Draws Attention A large water color painting depicting the entrance of the Utah Pioneers into Great Salt Lake Valley, and placed on dis-ply dis-ply in the the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company building build-ing in Philadelphia by the Utah Deparment o f Publicity, i s drawing the attention of thousands thous-ands of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Ins-urance representatives now in convention in that city, and who are observing the company's centennial year. Utah Story Told Tn Washington, D. C. Drawing wide attention in Washington, D. C. is an elaborate elabor-ate Utah exhibit sponsored by the Library of Congress in the rotunda of the Capitol building. The items in the exhibit have been drawn from the Library's almost inexhaustible files, from the national archives, from state, war and other departments, depart-ments, and from the files of the Geological Survey. Many of the historical documents are on 'exhibition 'ex-hibition for the first time, especially es-pecially an array of old maps tracing the development of the Utah country from the days of |