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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. SPANISH FORK, UTAH ROAD BUILDINGMS Yos emfe BOOMING Incress in Federal Aid Bull Expend!-turea net! in All Section $.300,000,000. Steady -- .n. v (prepared hy the United States Depart merit of Agriculture.) Since early In 1010 there hns been l sternly Inereiise eneh month In the federal aid business In the bureau of puldle minis of the United States department of agriculture. States In ull ectlri s of the country nre tiling their projects, and reeel ting allotments. The paibhulldlnjf era Is In full swing, and ft noiiM seem that the end Is not yet. dll Indications point to ftrenter rec rds In the mouths immediately to 1 3 ' v (1 k A ' ii i mi v ; . oy Jokrv Dickimorv Skernyaro mwe. of Based on complete reports from 44 the states cash expenditures on the roads and bridges of the United rural PLANS FOR GOOD ROAD DRAG One Shown In Illustration la Adapted for Localities Where Lumber Is Plentiful. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture ) The design for a road drag shown the Illustration Is adapted for In which sawed lumber may be readily obtained. In this design the runners are made of 2 or 2 Inch boards, 19 Inches wide and from 6 to feet long, with other boards of the same length, but In B If more conrunners withvenient. however, out boards may be readily substituted for those shown. The method of framing the runners together is a modification of that used only 6 Inches In width. HE national parks will probably stain stage a contest In scenic loveliness between Yosemlte valley and Zion canon. For the bill creating Zion canon a national park lias passed by both houses of congress and at this writing Is In conference over an amendment. Californians ulwajs the best of boosters have long contended that Yosemlte valley Is the supreme expression of scenic loveliness. The bold that there Is nothing like it on earth. To them it Is the valley whose compelling beauty the world lint Utah enthusacknowledges as supreme. iasts believe that when Zion's beauty is known to the public Yosemlte will be put In the second rank. Of course tbe new Zion National park will hardly rank with Yosemlte as a national park, for the latter contains 719,022 acres, while the former will have only 7(5,800 acres. But the eon-teIn loveliness between Yosemlte valley and Zion canon Is likely to be close and Interesting. Y'ellowstone National park In Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, as ever hotly knows, was the first national park to be established (1872) In the world. It Is our oldest and largest and most famous scenic natural park. Its geysers and bears have made Its name a worldwide household word. Yosemlte In California, established in 1S90, Is scarcely less famous; all the world knows of Its waterfulls and Us big trees the oldest and largest living things In the world. And Yosemlte vulley. Its greatest beauty, Is familiar to everyone through pictures. It Is visited yearly by thousands; this season the attendance was 38,504. The proposed Zion National park lies In southern Utah, about 200 miles south of Salt Lake City. The state has made It accessible to the tourist by building 100 miles of automobile highway from Lund on the Salt Lake route. The Arrowhead trail from Salt Lake City Is also available. President Taft in 1909 created the national monument of 13,810 acres to preserve the wonderfully scenic area of the canon of the Klo Virgin. In recent years other scenic canons were discovered, and In 1918 President Wilson enlarged the national monument to 70,800 acres and changed Its name to Zion. In the debate over the Zion National park hill in the house Representative Welling of Utah said In part : , Detail Drawing Showing Typical Con- struction of Road Sawed Lumber. Drag Built of In connection with the split-lo- g type of drag. 7n this ense only two of the cross hiaces have their ends fitted Into ouger holes like rungs. In fastening the draw-chai- n to a sawed lumber drng, It Is usually advls-l!- e to run both ends of the chain through holes In the front runner or else make the connections by means of eye or book bolts, ns shown. The reason fur this Is that the sawed cross braces nre seldom sufficiently strong t" withstand the pull of the chain when It Is looped over them, ns Is frequently done when round timber cross-piece- s are used. If straight-grainepieces are used for the crosspieces, however, there Is no apparent reason hy one end of the chain might not be connected by looping It around the 2H-- r. 'h square crosspiece near the cutting end. Highway Travel Increasing. Highways travel by means of the Pussenger automobile Increased great-durin- g the past Bummer, fully fifty Per cent Must Have Good Roads. It costs money to build a good roud, but we have got to bnve them, as the experience of the past and the coming Sluter w lit demonstrate. Hard en Weed Crop. Pall disking la bard on the weed crop, After adopting a platform,' providing a budget of $40,000, fixing headquarters In Salt Lake for the west and in Washington' for the east, the Western States Reclamation association concluded the work of its first conference' at Salt Lake on Noeember 22 and adjourned. According to Information received f i'oiii Washington, Governor Bamhen ger, who bus been In the east for five weeks In (he interest of tho proposed Uintah railroad, lias completed all and Is ready to sturt on the work of construction. Giving os Ids reason tho press of private nffalrs, W, W, Bay, United States district attorney, has tendered his resignation, effective lHeemher 31, to Attorney General A. Mitchell .Mr. Ray has held Ids prusent office for six years. Mike Finnan, a slieepherdcr, charged with murder In the first degree for the, killing of Grnnk Gilbert, also a shecplicrdcr, in the Bear River country, July 24, last, was found guilty of of voluntary innnshiughtcr by a Jury fir lal-nie- r. curacy d n of heels. . Tates for the calendar year 1918 amounted to $2.80,098.193. To this riimild lie added the value 4f statute md com let labor, which cannot he bed with any great degree of acbut probably amounted to not less than $11,000,000, thus making the prand total expenditures for the year $300,000,000. This total Is made up of the actual expenditures for such Items is labor, materials, supervision and administration directly connected lth the construction. Improvement md upkeep of public roads and bridges outside the limits of Incorporated towns and cities, and does not Include any item for sinking-funpayments or redemption and Interest on road and bridge bonds. The year 1918 offered an unprecedented condition In practically all Urns of highway work. There was Hot only a tremendous Increase and expansion in the amount of heavy (ruck trnfllc on public roads and an unprecedented shortage in regard to road materials, labor and ready funds, Jut also a decided Increase In maintenance work, which was, however, partially offset by a decrease lu the amount of new construction. In order to lie aide to present to the sugar licet factories a basis for the determination of the price to ho paid farmers for the 1920 crop, members of the county sugar hoot committee of the state farm bureau have prepared a table showing the average cost per yield acre on a basis of a twelve-to- "This region obtained its name Zion canon bemuse of the devout reverence of the Mormon pioneers who setthd upon the Virgin river more than CO years ago. Its perpendicular walls presented an Impassable harrier to hostile tribes of Indians, who Infested these regions, and these people looked upon Zion ranon as a convenient and hospitable refuge when threatened hy attack from these troublesome Indian tribes. Zion ennon Is an extraordinary gorge cut from brilliantly colored sedimentary rocks hy the north fork of tho Virgin river. Its proportions are about equal to those of Yosemlte valley. In Yosemlte National pnrk; the walls nre several hundred feet lower and the canon Is considerably narrower. In the cutting of the gorge, however, the torrential at ream and wind and rain have carved domes, spires, towers, and other curious forms that strikingly resemble many of the features of Yosemlte valley. "More Interesting than the carving of Zion's Red predomicliffs Is their exquisite coloring. nates. as it does In tho Grand canon in Arizona, but there are amazing combinations of brown, black, and white colors with the red and with each other. White sandstone Is superimposed on the red strata, and other layers of the red rock lie In turn upon the white. The action of waiter upon the exposed surfaces of these rocks has produced a symphony of color that gives the canon Its greatest eliartn. The finishing touches nre given by the forests of the valley floor and the trees on the rim and In the niches of the nearly perpendicular canon walls. Until recently Zion has been praetlcnlly Inaccessible, and scarcely tens hnve seen It where thousands have seen Yosemlte. But Zion's visitors have paid eloquent tribute. The Indians Land of God because railed It Munkuntuweap It was so beautiful. The fierce Mormon zealot named It "Little Zion because of Its heavAway back In the seventies enly beauty. John Wesley Powell of Grand ennon fame was tempted far out of his way hy the exceeding beauty of a temple of rook "lifting Its opalescent It was the shoulders ngnlnst tho eastern sky. vermilion body and shining white dome of the West Temple of the Virgin ut the entrance to Munkuntuweap. "Again we nre Impressed with the marvelous beauty of outline, the Infinite complication of thoso titanic buttes. It 14 doubtful If In this reeven the spect the valley has its equal. Not Grand canon offers n more varied spectHrle; yet all Is welded together In a superb ensemble." F. S. Dcllenbnugh, topographer of the Powell party, wrote this on his second visit. "Nothing can exceed the wondrous beauty of Zion canon," wrote C. E. Dutton. "In Its proportions it is about equnl to Yosemlte, but In the no nobility and benuty of Its sculptures there is a to Sntyr." Is It Ilyperlon comparison. at Coalville. pounds of Eight eggs or twenty-fivpotatoes or otlinr amounts nnd articles of food was the price of admission to tin Thanksgiving Jubilee party given hy the members of Young Womens Mutual Improvement association of e , ' Slutorvllle. One hundred nnd thirty gallons of home-madwine were seized In a raid innilo upon the store of Ieter Rood-rookat Ogden. Roodrookos used tt small elder press. It Is said, to extract the wine from grapes grown In the county. . Ernest Itulinor, suspected draft evader nnd alleged riullcnl, Interned at Fort Douglas, was shot 'and killed hy n sentry. It Is claimed that Rainier attacked the sentry with a shovel In an endeavor to make his escape. Charles Noonan, sentenced recently on the charge of having stolen merchandise from box ears In the railroad yards at Ogden, has been removed ; from the county Jnll to the pest house su Mng with smallpox. Three hundred thousand pounds of Myton honey, for which 30 cents a pound wus paid, has been shipped to New York during the pnst week. The product eventually will be shipped to England, It Is reported. t j The value of farm lands assessed In Utuh for 1919 Is $88,373,483, according to a report compiled In the office of the state hoard of equalization. This value Is estimated on 2,430,078 acres of farm land assessed. When an automobile turned turtle on "Death Curve," near Ogden, Frank . Goldy of Lyman, Wyo., Mrs. Laura Humhlyn, Miss. Merllne Eyre and L. E. Kelly of Evanston, Wyo., were e Jack Lalt wrote a characteristic appreciation of Zion canon for a railroad administration booklet, In which he said: Zion canon Is an epic, written by Mother Nature In her most ecstatic humor, Illustrated by Creation in its most majestic manifestations, published by God Almighty as an inspiration to all mankind. Zion canon is the most beautiful spot I think I hnve seen all the on this continent. s famed that the evolution pf the earth's formation has made. Ami of them all Zion to me stands first, stands alone." Zion has the double (harm of form and color, and It is hard to say which Is the more appealing. Tho entrance to the canon Is spacious and Impressive. The course up the Rio Virgin Is tortuous and the variation of view and of formation of the lofty walls is great. At the end of six or seven miles of canon the wall narrows to the stream. What there Is beyond Is practically unknown. Thus from the plateau above the visitor may look down thousands of vertical feet Into the painted canon with Its river. From the river Imnk he muy look up thousands of feet with a changing view at every turn of the cunon. The entrance to the canon is most Impressive. To the w?st rises the West Temple (7,030 feet), flanked by the Towers of the Virgin. The guardian to the east Is the East Temple (7.000), flanked by the Wntchmnn (0,330), and Bridge mountain (0,030). Then come the Streaked Wall on the west side and the Brown Wall on the east side, topped respectively hy the Three Intrlnrchs and the Mountain of the Sun. Extraordinary features of the wnll formation Include El Goberna-dor- , the Great Organ and the Temple of SInawavn. The visitor finally roines to a point where the chusin Is more than 2,000 feet deep and the walls so nearly touch that he looks up to see no sky. The wulls are practically vertical and parallel and wnrp In and out, thus cutting off the blue above. Hero Is revealed the secret of the Making of Zion, as Is pointed out hy Dr. G. IC. Gilbert of the United States geological survey. This chasm Is nu example of downward erosion hy water, which acts like the marble saw. The cut Is not entirely vertical, because the current bus carried the cutting sand to one side or the other, and the cut undulates both In Its verttcul and horizontal sections. The forms along the canon walls are extraordinary. And the colors nre even more striking. The famous Vermilion Cliff of the Tainted Desert here combines with the White Cliff and we see a thousand feet of white superimposed on two thousand feet of red. But tills startling combination Is but the beginning of a veritable riot of color. The Vermilion Cliff rests on the Tainted Desert stratum 330 feet of a deeper red set off by purple and mauve slinles. Below this Is a hundred feet of brown and gray conglomerate. The crowning touch Is the coloring of the upper summits of the White Cliff. Here there nre In places several hundred feet of varicolored slinles and limestones whose seepage fantastically stains the glistening white. In consequence of the meeting of these many colors Zion Is ns gorgeous as a Gypsy scarf, and sunrise and sunset produce unbelievable effects. For example, take the West Temple. From a foundation of mingled reds, yellows, browns, show-place- sund-henrln- g grays and purples It rises ab ruptl.v 4.000 feet. The body is a brilliant red. The upper third Is white. The huge mass Is bo perfect In conformation that It suggests the work of a titan architect. And on top of the lofty central rectangle rests a squared cap of red above the glistening white. Across the cannon, and slightly to the north, rising between two peaks of deepest umber looms the great silvery dome of the Eastern Temple, clothed. In colorings like to Its western sister. This rounds to a broad summit upon which Is mounted a symmetrical cap of that same beautiful bloodlike samlstjuie formation. Just beyond the Eust and West Temples are mountains, wildly rugrnnged three ged In their outlines and facing another court of totally different type from that which fronts the Western Temple. Here again has Bible history contributed the titles, for the three peaks are and the spnee known as the The Tntrinrchs at their base the Court of the Patriarchs.1 A little further on is another trio which occupies the eastern wall. Of decidedly different formation and coloring, they are called the "Three Brothers." A great white dome Is known ns the "Mountain of the Sun." Here tbe breaks In both canon walls huve brought about a most Interesting effect, for this beautiful mountain catches the first glint of the rising and receives the last kiss of the setting sun. Still another feature of the "Mountain of the Sun" is the tint of the afterglow that ehnnges Its chalky summit into a rosy dome. Many Intersecting canons and the tortuous course of the main canon give great variety to tho formations. Iosslbly El Gobernndor Is the gem of them all. Standing at a turn of the canon, Its mighty mass rises sheer 3,000 feet from the creek that skirts its Imse, this pile presents a picture Gray at ls base, it clears to a unsurpassed. glistening white with a summit that terminates In a great table. Far up on one of its faces there hangs n wonderful nuturnl bridge, the top of which has never been pressed by the foot of man. Beyond El Gobernndor the canon twists and turns until It widens out Into the most weird of all its bizarre features. This Is the "Great Temple of Slnawavo, which occupies a vast amphitheater shut In hy wals of brilliantly colored rock towering 2,000 feet above Its floor. Here the rippling creek horseshoes around a most remarknbly formed sandstone object that closely resembles a Bmidlia seated on his throne. Legend has cone-shape- d Having lived unobstruslvely and apparently very ivoor for a number of years, Fred Ilofiniin, who died recent- ly at Myton, Is now found to have ac- cumulated and saved nearly $12,000. Roy Woodard was sentenced to serve sixty days In Jail and pay a fine of $30, on three charges against him, as a result of the niol demonstra-- ' tlon lii Ogden, August 28, Inst Willard Thompson, gunman and robber, who escuped from the Utah, state prison two months ago, was returned to prison lust week having been captured In Los Angeles. Mike Glonopolls, convicted of sec- ond degree murder for shooting and killing Dg. M. B. Shipp ut Salt Luke on June 5, has been .sentenced to twenty years Imprisonment. A campnlgh for the enforcement of the ordinance which prohibits youths imler 21 years of age from frequenting pool halls had been started at Salt Lnke, Forest conditions throughout the west will he reported at the convention of foresters to be held in Salt Lake during the first week lu December, The social committee of the Box-elde- r stake has commenced a campaign to prevent the sale of tohucco to minors in Brigham City, The fourth annual Interinountaln Fat given this place ns the locality where the pre- Stock show at North Salt Lake, to historic people of this southwestern land gathered bo held next April, Is already attractito do reverence to SInawavn, their ruling deity. ng considerable attention. The place fills the hill. If ever there was a spot Especially marked on the honor roll where weirdly mystic Incantations and wildly of the Roosevelt memorial drive nre Impressive ceremonials would seem to accurately the schools throughout the state, actit Into the surroundings, It Is tills same rock-houcording to reports. pocket In the depths of Zion. Seven prisoners In the state peniJust beyond the prehistoric temple the canon tentiary serving sentences for murder enters Its narrows until the creek occupies every have made application for parole or foot of the floor and feathery waterfulls dash pardon. down from moss and lichen covered terraces. Five foreigners arrested at lnrk City As If these were not enough, it Is known that had sixty gallons of liquor in their there are other beauties possibly of even more wonderful quality. Secretary Lane of the in- possession, It Is asserted. T. F. Devors, James Miller and terior department, in recommending the bill, wrote : Frank Smith, the three men recently "I lmve dwelt particularly upon Zion canon be- committed to the Utah stute prison cause It Is now so readily accessible and because for the robbery of the Mendenhall It is actually being used ns a tourist resort, but hank In Springvllle, October 0, have there are other canons In the reservation that bepn Identified as' three former conare bigger and even more beautifully colored. victs having criminal records. Still more remain to he entered and explored. In C. W. Johnson, president of tho time they will all he open to the public. FurtherJohnson Realty company nt Salt Lake, more, there nre In the reservation mountains, wa- entered a plea of guilty to a charge terfalls, natural bridges, ancient cliff dwellings, of embezzlement and was sentenced and numerous other features interesting to the to an Indeterminate term lu the Utuh tourist and exceedingly valuable to 'the scientist state prison, nis speculations Involve and student." sums ranging from $709 to $7500 and Yosemlto the Beautiful apparently must look, total $30,000. to Its laurels. ' X f |