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Show i' LOCAL SCENERY VISITED BY HEAD '? '. OF FEDERATION Trip Includes Mammoth Creek, Bryce's Canyon, Kaibab Forest and Grand Canyon. ROAD IS FAIR BETWEEN KANAB AND HURRICANE Attractions Covered Pronounced "f Ideal Vacation Group and Con certed Effort is Favored for 7 Making Them Better Known. S. J. Foster, cashier of the bank of Southern Utah, president of the Cedar City Commercial Club and of tha new Federation of Clubs is just home from a vacation trip to Bryce's Canyon, Mammoth Creek and the Grand Canyon. Can-yon. He returned from the Grand Canyon by way of Hurricane with the intention of including Zion Canyon in the tour, but found that the recent heavy storms had taken out the new government bridge across North Creek on tho Zion Canyon road and otherwise rendered the road temporarily temporar-ily impassable to auto travel. Besides Mr. Foster, the party included in-cluded his son and daughter, Morris and Roma, his two sisters, Miss Ruth Poster and Mrs. Tillic Hedquist and tho Misses Orpha Morris and Helen Nelson. , The first stop was at Bryce's Canyon Can-yon which was found to be a surpassingly sur-passingly beautiful and unique manifestation man-ifestation of nature. A fishing trip to ' Mammoth Creek was next in order, . nnd the fish were obliging enough to be very hungry. So that Mammoth Creek was. called a complete success Next day the party went to Kanab and thence through the Kaibab forest to the Grand Canyon. Between Kanab Kan-ab and tho foothills of the forest lie thirty miles of open desert. Then the road climbs Lefcvre ridge through a broad belt of pinion pines which in productive years furnish hundreds of tons of pine nuts. Leaving the pinions pin-ions the road still climbs through heavy yellow pine timber where a soft carpet of grass and pine needles cover tho earth and the odd looking but beautiful white-tailed squirrel a-bounds. a-bounds. This little animal is black with a very large and extremely bushy white tail and with n cute little tassel tas-sel on each ear like that on the ear of the lynx. There are no other squirrels like these in any other section of the earth, nnturalists say. Tho road that crosses the Kaibab plateau has for tho most part been turnpiked and is cxcxeptionally good ns well as interesting for the depth of the woods it penetrates, for the open flower strewn pnrks encountered and for the deer that dodge away into the underbrush. Dropping gently down the south slope of the plateau, the party came at last to the end of thej trip,, Bright Angel Point. The canyon was found to be the most sublime scene of all and held tho party not only by its immensity but by its wonderful variety and beauty of coloring. The Wylie camp on the noint furnished comfortable quarters for all who came unprepared to camp.. Having heard evil reports about the road between Kanab and Hurricane, Mr. Foster was agreeably surprised to find that it was not so bad after all. Any driver of ordinary ability ought to make it over that stretch without serious trouble. The worst stretch of road was between Antelope Springs and Gould's shearing corrall. However it is sadly in need of a few sign posts. One especially at Antelope Springs, where the road to Mount Trumbull leaves the main road, nnd another at A Pipe Springs near the other end where "5V Mount Trumbull road comes into the f main road again. This need was ev-( idenced'by the plight of two pnrties of tourists who had taken the Mount Trumbull road from Antelope springs, by mistake and had gone forty miles out into the desert over almost impas-sablo impas-sablo obstacles, at last finding themselves them-selves stranded without gas, food, water or bed, and suffering from the fierce desert heat. All this delay and suffering and exasperation could have been nvoided by the erection of an inexpensive in-expensive sign, for which every traveller trav-eller would bo grateful. Mr. Foster considers the combination combina-tion of Bryco's Canyon. Mammoth Creek, Grand Canyon nnd Zion Canyon Can-yon and tho Cedar Breaks as comprising compris-ing the ideal vacation group, which ought to be offered to tho tourist world ns one tour. They can bo linked I together with comparatively small ex it v pense, nnd ho henrtily endorsed the proposition of tho Iron County Record ! that all the counties concerned should unite in linking up this road and in ad- vcrtiBing as one tour the six supremo attractions of Fish Lnke, Bryco's Canyon, Crnnd Cnnyon, Zion Canyon, Cedar Breaks and Mammoth Creek. - |