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Excerpt from Travel USA, Vol. 1: March 1949 Organized as part of the State Highway Department in 1935, the New Mexico State Tourist Bureau conducts a national advertising and publicity campaign designed to encourage and stimulate a greater ow of recreational travel to and through New Mexico. The tourist bureau's budget for its first year was Traffic counts kept for the bureau by the checking stations on the border showed that nonresident motor vehicles entered the State in 1935. The activities of the tourist bureau have increased every year except during the war period. The budget for 1948 totaled for 1949 the Bureau has been granted an appropriation of all of which will be used for tourist promotional activities. The tourist ow last year totaled nonresident motor vehicles. For the current year, advertisements in color appeared in 12 major magazines with a total circulation of 16 million. In addition, we carried 280-line black-and white advertisements in some 53 newspapers in the metro politan centers of the Nation. These newspapers had a circulation of 19 million copies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.