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Show WONDERS OF LITTLE LIT-TLE m VALLEY Bishop Hirschi of Rockville Paints Vivid Word Picture of its Inspiring Scenery IS BOOSTING FOR ROAD FROM STATE HIGHWAY Little Zion, or Mukoontu-Wcup, Huh Been Set Aside as National Monument, Monu-ment, und Highway is Needed. ("Salt Lnkc Evening Telegram.) Tho good roads movement has struck Washington county with re-mat re-mat kablc force, according to Bishop David Hirschi of Rockville, who is in Snlt Lako today to launch a cooperative co-operative movement In Salt Lake to sccuro a highway to Little Zion or Mukoontu-Weap valley, southern Utah, which has been set aside as a national monument. "I am endeavoring to get state and federal aid to put In nn automobile highway from the State or Grand Cnnyon highway, at either Hurricane or LaVcrkin, Washington county, to Llttlo Zlon valley," Bishop Hirschi said. "National interest has been aroused by the wonders of Little Zion or Mukoontu-Weap valley, since tho visit two years ago by Governor Spry, Douglns White nnd Wyllo Way pco plo. Wo have a natural park thore with more wonderful and mor.e beautiful beau-tiful attractions than tho Yosemitc, and wo want to open theso wonders to tho view of tho world. "Not many people havo hodrd of this valo of cnchantcmcnt, this titanic mystery of the southwest, yet it surpasses sur-passes all other known areas in tho number and beauty of its over changing chang-ing panoramas, in tho ideal loveliness of its painted rocks, in the mysterious myste-rious cnchantcmcnt of its desert solitudes. soli-tudes. Its mnjestic domes arc romantically ro-mantically suggestive, and its graceful grace-ful minarets and foaming torrents form numberless pictures filled with wizardry nnd potent charm. "There are cliffs and pinnacles that tower on each side for from 2000 to 3000 feet above the bed of tho vnl-ley. vnl-ley. These riso shcerly, almost perpendicularly, per-pendicularly, while some have sloping slop-ing ascents of talus and other debris de-bris at their bases. Instead of being be-ing in one color, most of these gigantic gigan-tic cliffs are in five or six colors. While tho pale gray predominates, there also are pale red, brown and dark gray, blending into yellows and other prismatic colors. "They, turn purple at sunset, and at sunrise their peaks are silver and melt to pear at their bases, all shot with every conceivable shado and tint. "The gorge 1b sp narrow that it is only at noon in some spots, that the sun ever touches tho bottom. The trend of the canyon is north nnd south. There aro flowers and ferns of wonderful beauty. Springs of water fall in broad sheets from airy heights, from pinaclo to ledge and from ledge to gaso, bathing tho face of the cliff in spray, and bursting into countless jeweled rainbows. "Wo want these majestic and beautiful beau-tiful scenes made accessible to tho nature lovers of tho land. Wo are working with our brains and our hands, our intellect and our money to get that, road and open the new Valley of tho Thousand Wonders." Bishop Hirschi says that farmers in Washington county who a few years ago wero skeptical as to the result to bo obtained by dry-farming methods havo been converted and their most sanguino expectations have been excelled. Satisfactory crops are being be-ing produced each year, of wheat, barley, oats and corn. A project is under way to open to settlement nn area of between 20,000 and S0,000 acres in the Big Plains country, adjoining ad-joining tho .Arizona lino, to-dry farming farm-ing by conserving and piping to tho tract, wator for domestic purposes. Every foot of this land will be redeemed, re-deemed, he says, and will bo mado productive. |