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Show Unsurpassed VISIT LITTLE ZION CANYON Wylie Camp is Attracting Many Visitors from Salt Lake City "SEE UTAH FIRST" IS SLOGAN OF TRAVELERS OF BEEHIVE BEE-HIVE STATE "Seeing Utah First" is the slogan of vacation parties, and sight-seeing excursionists this year. The State Press Association of Utah is already planning a trip to Little Zion canyon can-yon this summer. And the people of Salt Lake City instead of going to the coast or to Florida or to Alaska are going to see the wonders of southern Utah this year. The Salt Lake Route has prepared a wonderfully artistic and complete little booklet full of excellent halftone half-tone engravings of the marvels of Little Zion. The natural bridges, the highly colored and ever changing chang-ing walls of seemingly bottomless canyons, great white domes and mammoth natural statuary are shown from photographs and give the reader of the interesting descriptive descrip-tive matter an intense desire to throw aside the daily routine of office of-fice or shop and take the necessary few days off to see this wonderland at our doors. Citizens of Salt Lake City have already taken this trip. They stopped stop-ped off for breakfast at Milford and were excited in anticipation of their vacation to the new scenic playground play-ground of Utah. For be it known the Canyon is provided with every comfort for food and shelter, good roads, guides and the best of weather. weath-er. There were twenty-four in the party and they returned to Salt Lake yesterday. The following dispatch from Lund after the party came out of the Canyon Can-yon gives an idea of their impressions impress-ions of the place as a summer resort and place for a delightful vacation: "A party of twenty-four Salt Lakers left here today for Salt Lake after a four daps' trip through the Zion Canyon in southern Utah. It was the first large party to go through the new National park over the newly built roads from Lund to the park, and through the Wylie camps within the park. "The road from Lund to the park has been constructed by prisoners and by citizens of Washington county coun-ty in co-operation with the county. The road is 10! miles long and is in excellent condition throughout. Within the park the government has constructed a fifteen-foot highway. "In speaking of the beauty of the 'canyon, Dr. S. II. Allen, who was a member of the party, said, "The Zion Canyon district is magnificent and amazingly accessible." "The camps which have been established es-tablished in the canyon are similar to those operated in Yellowstone park. They are under the Wylie camping system and are in charge of Miss Margaret J. McCartney, who for years was in charge of the Wylie Way Camping servlre in Yellowstone. Yellow-stone. " 'The season for tourists in Zion Canyon,' said Mr. Warner of the Salt Lake Route who escorted the party, "is double the length of that in Yellowstone, owing to the soft mild climate of southern Utah. Plans are now being made by a great many motorists to use the Arrowhead trail to" southern California this summer, making the side trip to Zion Canyon, and from the interest manifested by many inquiries, there is an indication indica-tion of a good many eastern tourists visiting the canyon this summer." "The party consisted of Dr. George W. Middleton and wife, John Connelly. Con-nelly. Miss .Mary E. Connelly, Miss Ethel M. Connelly, Miss Lillian Connelly, Con-nelly, Miss Virginia Maslin, Miss Ida Savage, C. G. Harry, Mrs. Georglna Marriott, W. C. Harvey and wife, Frank Evans and wife, Mrs. D. H. Livingston. Miss Belle Livingston, Miss Alice Christensen, Miss Christie Elllngson, Mr. Cooper, Harry Etaugh and William Warner and wife," |