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Show i MONEY TO AID UTAH SCENERY I Expenditure of $250, hum for permanent perm-anent improvement to tourists accommodation ac-commodation faciliies in southern Utah's scenic wonderland has been authorized by the Union Pacsifie system, sys-tem, it was announced yesterday by J. L. Amos, assistant traffic manager of the Union Pacific with headquarters headquart-ers at Salt Lake. The improvements, authorized in anticipation of greatly increased tourist travel to southern Utah attractions in 1926. will be completed com-pleted prior to the opening of the 1926 season on'May 15. This expenditure will bring the total to-tal amount spent by the Union Pacific in developing Bryce canyon, Cedar Breaks, Zion national park and other scenic attractions close to the two and one-half million dollar mark, in that more than $2,000,000 has been expended ex-pended prior to the opening of the 1926 season. Passenger traffic officials believe that tourist travel in 1926 will increase in-crease 100 per cent over that of 1925, when approximately 20,000 tourists were attracted to southern Utah's "flaming canyons and jeweled amphitheaters." amphi-theaters." Tourist travel in 1926 is placed at 40,000. Improvements, upon which work already has started, and necessitated by the virtual assurance of increased tourist traffic next year, include the construction of a lunch station and restroom at Cedar Breaks, the building build-ing to be in keeping with the surrounding sur-rounding natural scenery; additions, particularly to dining room facilities, facili-ties, to the central lodges at both Zion national park and Bryce canyon; construction con-struction of fifteen additional two-room two-room sleeping lodges at Zion and twenty lodges of the same type at Bryce canyon; garages at Zion and Bryce; dormitories at Cedar City and Bryce for the accommodation of employees; em-ployees; landscraping of the grounds at Zion and Bryce; improvement of the telephone service between Zion and Cedar City, and construction of the Union Pacific system's own telephone tele-phone line from Cedar City to Bryce, by way of Cedar Breaks. Salt Lake Tribune. |