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Show .T " ' " - - 1 - , - ., ., - - ... -. . .. , , Salt Lake Center of Western Scenic Attractions ' 'mm m mm mm m m m m ' m m m m m IPicturesque.National Parks Surround Capital City I in. m m m ' m m m w.m.w m m m m m n m m m m m jUtah Autoists Lucky in Being Residents of Lake I : : ! ACCOMPANYING map shows how Salt Lake City is in the center of the scenic attractions of the West.. The radiating lines j reach out to national parks and monuments on every hand, and automobile roads are fast making the connection actual. Scenes surrounding map: Upper left, what's left of Morm6n fort at Las Vegas, Nev.; lower left, Zion canyon; upper right, , Locomotive rock, near Bluffy lower right, irrigating wheel, Virgin river, Zion canyon. . j i i ; 1 1 I ' I loned like huge monuments, giant bat-tloahipa bat-tloahipa and animala of heroic aiae, and any aeeker after the wild and mitrttv. eled will find here anything hla heart deairea. plea of atupendotif aise, Uere la end-leaa end-leaa variety of acenic laa,tity. Only eight mile off the Asror. read trail, at ( iu, tr the neweet n urrl bridge, n i aa lntire aa tha bridge. in Kan Jit.ni county, but big- enough to warrant tha admiration of thoee wfto na,vs seen it. fitirins; "Dixie Lsnd," a. aection'ao entirely different fiom oe northern part of the atate, thj guMHwaX asikasingsr wad' VennnfoOa aVUlpturtng ao aniaains In variety and extent, bewilder and faacinate the beholder. One can hardly hard-ly look atraight up two thou bund fett, but that la the view if you penertate Zion valley. Within the borders tUa stats ft a -' p.ieu tVt-i'y wt'.tls ) nioiii I tain scenery, forests of unl, nown ex tnt, atreaina. hiuI waterfalls, giant chasm and mount a Ins rt mrU th- ! i - Roads Rapidly Making City's Position More . Advantageous.' .. v. - . J&yl V. Quieo. SALT LAKE occuplea the center of the stage In the matter of transcontinental trans-continental touring. Kvery automobile auto-mobile road that connecta the East with the West either comes di- I navs! anl tStSa. lwt aal asmaa M HiSS to it that it may be considered; a aide trip. Likewise his city is the stenic center of the West. A glance at the accompanying accom-panying map ahowa that tt is the center cen-ter of the government s sctivitiea in establishing national (Mirks and monuments, monu-ments, whereby the scenic wondera are being preserved and opened to travel. To the immediate north is Yellowstone Yellow-stone park, where this year automobiles automo-biles have replaced horse drawn ataa'. and where every facility Is offered the motorist to see lis wonders. There I is a good road all the way. and as the natural gateway to the park. (Salt j Lake should see an Increasing flow of tourists who will stop and see the at- tractions here on their way. Just to the east of us uie Uocky Mountain park and th other ahow places of Colorado, all within cas ths-tance. ths-tance. and visited bv thousands everv year. Last year there were registered In lenver ZS.WO foreign automobiles that toured the atte of Colorado. There is an average of twit thousand earn from out the state thvre at all times. There la an average of three persons to a car. snd the average expense is five dollars a day to a pet son. So the! I a vera ire expenditure of automobile tourists in Colorado is S30.00O a nay. fficiently provided, but progren Is be ting made to remedy both defects. Those who visit the acenic beauties of Colorado, of the Yellowstone, of the Yosemite and the Grand canyon are Just next door to a newer jrst mors interesting; in-teresting; field of natural wondera, juar now boinar opened Hs tha public. And tf theaa tour lata but knew what Utah has to offer, and knew how ts gat . hsrg.i.hejr woujd b fiOjaifiS -4 thousand. Vor no land ore eaxth has more of Interest to show She tourist, snd it Is at the aama timo eaaentuUly different from the other attractions. TRAIL IS BLAZED. - The govern ou'fit lifca le4 . in esiaMiMmng naiioiiut monuments in this atate, and thus preserved the natural nat-ural beauties for us. Mukuntoweap monument (Zion valleys now made ao-L'efllhl ao-L'efllhl by means of the government built road within its Doundariea, and the atate built road connecting It with the Arrowhead trail, ia the wonder of the West. A giant chasm or clerf in the plateau, throuch which flow the sources of the Virgin, river, gradually widening out to a valley of verdure and rugged acenery, whose walls rlae sheer two thousand feet. Zion canyon defies word description. Monument valley, the natural bridges or Kan Juan county, ttic cliff dwell- 1 ! lugs and th wondrous chissellnsr of I roc k near Bluff, are rescued by the1 I Monument highway, a tra.i just blared (by Ioph Annrtis of Bluff and Dr. W jH. Hopkins of this cit. This Is also i 'the roud to the Grand canyon. j hln.nl of Kluff the rxtrnsion of the , monument highway leada to Mesa 1 , et.l- national park, wneic seven thou- I !nnd tourists enjoyed tnemaeives la at jear. and not one of them anew It wsaj but a -tep ncrtmm Into ine wondera of! il'tnh A little south of there the cllr ' dwellings and the painted desert art, r attrurtiiiK people from ail over nu ! j world, who yet do not know what ia ' I to be nen in our atate. SHOULD BETTER ROADS. I The roads between Colorado and L'tah are not aa good aa they ought to I be, and only a small fraction of thcte tourists come into this suite, for that reason, and for the further reason that I road information has not been made 'available, and they have one couth .n l to California Instead. The California!) hsve macip it their business to reach not for this business, and any motorist can learn how to et to California from j Colorado. j West of lis we have the Yneemfte. ; which Is California's bi show plur-e, and i the good rads of California, coupled . with plentiful Hh ertiJMna. brings ':-cnunled ':-cnunled thoiiKand in that taie. Thy are near enoneh to come to Salt ltke (if a similar effort were made to attract at-tract them. Kouth of us we have the Crand Canyon Can-yon of the Colorado, and the wonderful wonder-ful cliff dwellfiiKs and the painted detrt of New Mexico. These are now mad accessible by a connecting road leaving the Arrowhead ail near rtt. i I George. The approach to the Grand ' canyon through the Kaibab foreat ia one of great beauty and interest, and the view of the canyon Itself from this side far surpasses the approach from I the southern side, according to all w bo j have made the trip. There are some ' short stretches of bad nad and facili- I ties for travel have not yet been suf I j While the government haa been ac- ' jtive in protecting .these natural won-j jdera other activities are at work to; l make them acceaaible. Private uidiviu-luuls uidiviu-luuls and associations have oeen reach-I I ina; out from every direction trying to 1 L-et into l'tah and bring tourists into1 Jour confines. The l,incn,n highway. -,the Yellowstone .VtMni nichway. th ' t Pikes Peak hfchway. the Midland trail, i tthe Arrowhead trail, the Sunshine Ingu- ' , way. arc all actively promotma rrMd rbuildins and em-ooraring touring. The, Pike'a Peak people are holding a con-i i vrution in Ouehesne Tuesday next, and the Arrowhead trail Is rMablishinx a' ifuriiie bureau in the my. to bring loiu-iM from Cahfornla :n,'o l'tah. ( DESCRIPTION BAFFLEO. Any attempt to mention adequately ! the attractions of I tab would take !mny nagea of The Telegram. It is j intended here to mention tliose wnlch i are new and therefore unknown to the : reader generally. Many of ojr attrac- j tiona are well known and Jusly famoue. Tiiose to the south an as yet prac- f tically unknown, i Kor throe hundred and twenty-five mile to St, Gore the road !iai many! attraetiona for the tounei. i-fiining j ac '"rovo. where the wo.irerftil Tim-' ctnoig raise kt enlgmy head to the' rknida. with its glacier and Its moun tain lake.' to Cadar canyon, where the. Cedar brakes look like a thoutand atee- |