An Analysis of Postwar Industrial Migration to Utah and Colorado

I N the United States World War II greatly stimulated economic activity, increased industrial migration, and to some extent rearranged the country's pattern of industrial location. Since the end of the war the West and the South have become increasingly important as centers of manufacturing and commerce. Although data involving aggregate number and kind of new manufacturing enterprises are available for both the West and the South, in the West no comprehensive study has been made of the factors which motivated postwar location.1 It was for this reason that the writer undertook a study of the forces orienting postwar industrial locations in the states of Colorado and Utah. The two mountain states of Colorado and Utah have within their borders a land area larger than the combined area of the New England states plus the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. The total population of the two western states is smaller than the population of the state of Connecticut which has about 2.6 per cent of the land area of Utah and Colorado.2

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