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Show v ZION NATIONAL PARK GETS GOOD ADVERTISING The good advertising that is being done in behalf of Zion Canyon is bound to attract the attention nnd interest in-terest of easterners in time. For instance, in-stance, consider the following comment com-ment in the Christian Science Monitor, Moni-tor, published in Boston, Mass.: Three hundred miles south of Snlt Lake City and reached by automobile from Lund, Utah, is Little Zion canyon, tho newest of American national playgrounds. Tho canyon derives its name from Salt Lake City, which about fifty years ago was known ns Zion. Brighnm Young and other Mormons visited the district and the inhabitants decided that they would call the canyon "Little Zion,", evidently considering Salt Lake City a big place. Within the last few years Littlo Zion canyon has been visited by a largo number of tourists and some of them have termed it "The Rainbow of the Desert." There aro deep canyons with clilTs of blood-red nnd clifTs of cream white rising to a height of 2500 feet. Huge nntural bridges and level topped plateaus, with precipitous cliffs and amphitheatres amphithea-tres provide a picture that strikes one with awe. While Snlt Lake City may not have been a very big place fifty years ago, it is now becoming a big inland metropolis met-ropolis the biggest city between Denver Den-ver -and the Pacific coast, and growing bigger nil the time. Everything the Monitor has so glowingly set forth in regard to Zion canyon with its cliffs of blood-red and cliffs of cream-white cream-white and its deep canyons, huge natural nat-ural bridges and picturesque amphitheatres amph-itheatres are true, and will not only strike each beholder with awe but challenge the admiration of all true lovers of the sublime and beautiful in nature. Easterners should como out nnd sec for themselvs,. They should not go to Europe ngain until they have seen Zion Canyon. |
