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Show WATER FOR UTAH velopment of the State's water resources can then assist and stimulate an increasing measure of use in Utah's raw material foundation for industry. ( See Table 6 - Water and Power Requirements for the Production of Certain Important Industrial Materials - page 47.) It is evident that no single region or single state can be industrially self- supporting to a complete degree. The West, however, is an area where raw materials are ample to provide for vigorous industrialization to sustain its principal needs and those of Pacific Basin Nations which look to the West Coast as their nearest trade outlets. The states which make up the western country, therefore, are highly interdependent and the approach to the industrial potentials of Utah cannot be limited strictly to its own boundaries. Its raw materials and industries are an integral part of the entire potential of western development. As the West grows, so Utah grows. The West's markets are Utah's markets. ... What Potential Industries The determination of the feasibility of industrial plant establishment is a complex undertaking. It moves with time; it reflects changing ing technologies, changing markets, changing industrial patterns. Availability of raw materals is obviously not enough to guarantee industrial growth. Quality, grade, costs and accessibility to plant development facilities such as water, power, labor and transportation are major de- terming criteria. The experience of one area in industrial tsablishment may have little relationship to that which might be thought possible in another; each must be analyzed en individual merits. The costs of assembly of necessary raw materials must therefore be balanced with costs of power, fuel, water, labor and transportation for each potential industrial location not all of these factors are always immediately susceptible of analysis and they require considerable study and investigation. The same is true of market factors and possible consumption, which must be visualized in terms of production costs modified by costs of transportation to consuming centers. Here freight rates play a decisive part and in the West must be given special consideration because of the peculiar structure of western freight rates. These largely favor extractive industries but are not necessarily conducive to the establishment of new manufacturing industries, which are large labor employers. These complexities of industrial plant establishment make it difficult at present to chart the industrial potentials of Utah. There are no facile generalities which can lead to rational conclusions on the State's industrial future. Therefore, it must be pointed out that the general analyses of industrial potentials discussed further on in this report make no pretense of being the end- product of the kinds of studies which are absolutely necessary for precise statement. At the same time, it is indisputable that Utah's raw ma- erial base - if provided adequate water and power supplies - promises a great deal. This, together with the equally indisputable expansion of western demands for western industrial products, provides grounds for considerable optimism in the full- scale industrial development of the State. [ 46] |