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Show 89 farming and livestock. These trends in population, industrial growth, and agriculture are shown in Table 7. Table 7 w Population, Value of Manufacturing, and the Percentage of Population Involved in Farming Date Population Value of Percentage of Manufacturing Population Farming 1920 449,396 na 31.26 1930 507,847 207,641,259 22.83 1940 550,310 167,172,226 19.09 1950 689,000 na 11.75 na Not available. The Publicity and Industrial Development Board was relatively inactive in terms of promoting new projects to utilize Utah's water resources. The federal government's resources were, of course, directed toward the war effort. Little attention or money could be spared for water development and little new work was accomplished during the board's short tenure. There are at least two alternative explanations for the creation of the Publicity and Industrial Development Board and of the goals which it was hoped the new agency would accomplish. The difference in these views can be accounted for by examining the perceived purpose of the state's water development and planning agencies during the period. One point of view was that there was little planning and engineering work left to be done in the field of water development. Rather, the major work left was to publicize the possibilities of water development, hence the move to a publicity board. 15 This position would be aimed at convincing the federal government or others to finance and implement existing plans. Possibly it was also felt that after twenty years of water data collection and planning by the Utah Water Storage Commission the possibilities had been identified. The second view, one which is better supported by the actions of the board and the activities of the water users in the state, is that the water planning for the state needed to be tied into overall economic planning and industrial development of the state. Utah officials researched and published many studies which set long- range goals for industrial, manufacturing, mining, and agricultural growth in each area of the state. These studies were an inventory of possibilities, allowing state water planners to estimate where growth in water demand was likely to occur. The planning and technical problems brought about by moving water planning responsibilities to the 14United States Bureau of the Census, Census of the United States, 1920 through 19S0. Information regarding the percentage of the population on farms was taken from the Utah Agricultural Statistics, 1981. ' Jay M. Bagley, " Utah's Water Development Framework," pp 29- 30. |