Show Grand Canyon National Park 5 r 4 51 X- X MJ I This la is g one of ot n It erics of articles to appear In this newspaper d by the Salt Snit Lako Lake Adverting Club associated civic clubs club of southern and central Utah and chambers of ot commerce part of a program to point out Utah's resources resource to so that local l people will Know Utah Better Dy By MARION C C. C NELSON The route to the north rim of ot the Grand Canyon most easily reached through Utah is so beset with scenes of ot Indescribable beauty and variety that by the time you ou reach Bright Angel point yon you say to yourself yourself your your- self This will have to be good to make me mo even murmur But Grand Canyon will do more than that You will stand speechless too impressed im tin pressed by the Immensity and grandeur o or of the spectacle to utter a sound There are three geologic subdivisions of ot the region from north to south the High Plateau the Terraced Plateau and aDd the Grand GraDd Canyon Platform No country In the tho world reveals more fascinating chapters of geologic history It has hns undergone great transitions alternately sea bottom and mountain top a region broken and titled by tremendous displacements a region scorched and branded by volcanic action but butmore butmore butmore more than all else from the viewpoint of ot human interest a region profoundly sculptured and given its most distinctive character b by tho the creating beauty-creating genius of or erosion The Tho most route is the highway which runs directly south from Zion National Park It crosses the Rio VIrgen at Rockville Rock Rock- ville and climbs the plateau Near the Arizona boundary appear the magnificent Vermilion Cliffs which stretch across Southern Utah for tor great distances they present arresting architectural effects of vast castles and cathedrals colored a rich red which become vivid vermilion in the afternoon sun After crossing Short Creek into Arizona the tho immense blue arch of ot the Kaibab Plateau becomes more prominent Upon this stretch of ot fascinating fascInating- descent range many wild horses direct descendants perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps of those brought to America by the Spaniards On Cedar Ridge Is a n petrified forest The Tho road follows Vermilion Cliffs through Kaibab Indian Reservation Reserva Reserva- Hon tion to Pipe Spring a celebrated oasis created a National Monument In 1923 Two historic stone stono buildings standing there thero were erected in 1870 In frontier stylo style for tor protection from the Indians From beneath one house flows the finest and purest spring in all this frontier domain daily dally discharging gallons of or cool water At the road Joins the main highway again and the lar largest est virgin forest in the world the Kaibab Forest has yet to be penetrated The Tho Kaibab Forest for tor the most part vart is as free of ot undergrowth as any well kept park yet in area It covers more than acres Nature has somehow achieved that cleanness that permits you to look down long aisles of ot yellow pine Douglas fir and Engelmann spruce Thousands Thousands Thousands Thou Thou- sands of ot deer graze raze passively at the roadside many requiring a warning note from tho the horn to frighten them ot off the road roath Far more reticent Is the beautiful Kaibab white-tailed white squirrel found only In this forest for tor he flicks from tr tree tree e to tree treo defying anyone to approach close enough to photograph him But before you know It you have arrived at Bright Angel Point with Its lodges and fine accommodations Here you see your first view of the Grand Canyon of ot the Colorado Now in an Instant you realize why so little attempt is made to describe It appreciate it-appreciate how Inadequately a photograph pictures it H. A labyrinth not of ot one canyon but tiers of ot canyons extends as far tar as the eye can Coli follow ow Color everywhere vivid subtle and forever changing Under your very eyes brilliant crimson changes to deep purple as the sun sinks Words aro are of little avail to describe the canyon Across the great plateau the Colorado River has cut a series of ot canyons canons miles long a mile In depth and twelve miles in width On the north rim a full tull thousand feet teet higher than the south rim the elevation is feet teet You are told that the canyon is not a cleft but is the result ot erosion by water and aud that thata a natural calender revealing history centuries centuries cen cen- tunes old has been laid bare as the Colorado River cut its way through the rock You can see rock strata from every era In the geological time scale When you are aro informed th that t tho the chasm Is more than a amile amile amile mile deep you understand a little better how frost Crost can be painting the trees on the rim while tropical semi-tropical flowers are blossoming at the rivers river's edge eight thousand feet below In recognition of ot its scenic value this area orea was made a n National Park in 1919 and It Is indeed true that although no words can describe It no observer ever forgets th the vivid Impression ho he received the tho first instant he viewed It MR Ma READER Do Do Do your jour part par to 0 advertise Utah Ulah Please send this IMs article to some some friend or relative or business associate out of the State Stale |