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Show ,. if " . : -i ' TROUBLES RETARDED Romantic History of Salt Lake, However, Drew Thousands Here, While Other Points in West Were Neglected by Traveling Pleasure-Seekers. Pleasure-Seekers. CITY IS GATEWAY TO YELLOWSTONE Manifold Attractions I Available; Opening of Little Zion Valley Through Efforts of Salt Lake Route Provides Pro-vides New Wonders for Globe-Trotters. DESPITE the fact that unusual conditions throughout the country coun-try made 19:6 an of year for tourists, .Salt Lake City lost none of Its prestige as a tourist cen ter. The exact figures on tourist travel through Salt Lake durlnir the year Just closed are not yet available and no estimates esti-mates have been made by railroad traffic officials, other than that the number compares com-pares favorably with those of 1914. A late, cold spring was responsible to a certain extent for light travel early In the season, and the cold veather was followed fol-lowed closely by the calling of the militia of various states to service on the Mexican Mexi-can border. Thousands of persons who had contemplated a tour of the western country cancelled all arrangamerits and remained at home because their sons or friends were ordered out for military eervlce. Toward the latter pari of the season I a threatened nation-wide railroad strike sent. thousands of tourists scurrying home- ward several weeks before the season closed, and, therefore, took from the west l.f a large number of visitors who might J I have remained In the mountains until 1 .... fall. - 7 City Is Attraction. J SL.lt f.ake City, however, stood out d I ing- all the year as the leading to I center of the west. If not of the cf Ar. country. The city Itself, its ron rSt history. Its broad and beautiful sil XiUre its I ostelriea and its hospitality, ai7 (antic great dead sea from which it t. V eets, name, were too attractive to be j l the up by the sightseer. f.lW lt3 Then, too, It Is ux gateway to Massed principal tourist attractions In ot I tlons of the west. With many an the It It. connected b steel rails, jier scc. others ty highways v.hlch ha I ot them Bone extensive Improvements . ,yt,i-fast ,yt,i-fast twelve months. I T' unde,: To the north Is VeUowstonr I irUlg tlie nation's greatest and most I rlf.ysround, which no tourist )a,. lhe bulev he can afford to n w'erful uorthw.et is the Columbia l0, tb9 wdst and Washington, with thelrf To th0 . Um. To the west, bos i Lv 0ri)gOT L MaUtifU' 'k' Tl I manlf.1.1 al and the big trees, the gre.l 1es Great Si!t ... Mg,w.rC. yosemite Jlner lanyon. f I .... ii ,i f It port of br.n .Ml these have bee,, tnld I vuc,l readier Mories and in folders f tl I ' rortatlon companies. V.vti . . u , i ter playground of southci rc')cilU"lly 'een so exploited, but f l'0" inter, ,t a.ong the y J LZ looked. It was only durlf I , that Little Zion valley 1 J"e" ' on. of the most wo'ndl Y., scenic attractions of A th ""V h com. into Its own. I southern L tab, r1u of all the iew Wonders Foi Iicrlca, began to Through the effort,. partment of the Salt Iai ploltation of Little yi f . ' . ... I I of the traffic de- gun. Officers of I J I ' . , conducted several , .ake Route the ex- wonderful little V.J f'n vMy was b"- to give it nation. .e ro.d p y l ,k,.. . farcies through the raKers also becar f Zion and aulomoi ?? and 'Tu it, with the efto ""d publicity. bait parties already e '"t"'i"id IJttle the coming vcaf tr,pS WC1'e mttle So effective J ' that sroreS 0f ther was inaugurat are PIannlnE for atives In con' I , . , . to procure , f as ,he campaign which (food highw.- f ri that UUh "present- tuwean nal resa UMd thelr lnn"MC0 ed In theY Avernment aid In building aeeessroUIJ 1 " to T'ltlle Zlon' or M"k"'" f Zonal monument, as It is list- overnment archives. Its in- ) h llimpses of Nature for the Sightseer in the Intermounlain West m I r.sj-l j : -" l i : jm-- If: yAT .'. , - ' ' - - :-' ; . 1 v s !7: f- I 1 WOPID'S CREATES! ; ' 'j . - J4TURAL ARCH- p - - -,Mr;c: f- '! V V trf-'--i-' -.! "W:-;t J - X-L. .Vriij y 1 ' pffi A r " 7"f? RiVR CANYON - -; . . "-i- w.'yv.--.- .-.' . IL. v-: ;M'.-.J f . . ?f -7mJ 2.J.lS . Ujm- Ifs . ' . (r: & FAITHFUL-VELLOWSTONE PARK Z. ' ; f 1st probably will hinder It from becoming more widely known for many years. Alive to this feature, both the federal and state governments aro planning to take an active part In the construction of good roads to and through the Rio Virgin country to Mukuntuweap. According to globe trottors who fcavc been to Lottie Zion, there is nothing like it in America, and few scenic attractions In the world to equal it. It is a sort of combination of the sheer preel pices, waterfalls, flowers and erosions of the 1 Yosemlto, and the colored rocks, queer formations and the purple haze of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. It Is larger than the yosemite and smaller than the Grand canyon, but combines many of tiie attractions of both. Effect of War. With American tourists barred from Burope on account of the great war, attention at-tention lias lif-en turned to attractions at home. . Considerable interest has been display! during the past two years in the national parkn and national monuments, monu-ments, and this Interest wan augmented laat summer by a portfolio iasuod by the interior department on these playgrounds. To the southeast Salt Lake City lw the gateway to the famous Royal gorge and to Denver, the Quoen city of the niHins. All tourists have heard of these attraction, but until within the pant year have been unfamiliar with the many attractions at-tractions which lie between them and Salt Lake City. S'tiuth from the Denver Den-ver & Rio Gra-nde railroad In suutheast-ern suutheast-ern Utah are more than a dozen great natural bridges, at leaat half of which1 are clashed among the biggest In the world. There Is no disputing that the world's greatest natural arches are found In southeastern Utah. The great bridges, like Little Zion valley, val-ley, are practically Inaccessible to tourist?, tour-ist?, on account of lack of highways. But the good roads movement also has taken hold of the people of that section of the state, and the great natural wonders soon will be easily reached by stage or automobile. auto-mobile. Close to the natural bridge country coun-try also runs the Grand canyon, a part of It through Utah. In connection with the movement to popularize these great natural wonders, Including Utile Zlon, It has been suggested sug-gested that some of the tourist agencies establish a Jfno of camps and transportation transpor-tation facilities similar to those maintained main-tained in Yellowstone park and other national na-tional playgrounds. Several representatives representa-tives of tourist agencies made the trip to Little Zion last year, and It is expected expect-ed that some will go to the natural bridge country this season to investigate the advisability ad-visability of establishing such transportation transporta-tion service and camping facilities. The chief drawback to such a proposition proposi-tion at this time is the lack of good highways. Once the highways are built there seems little question hut that the stage linos and camps will he established and that tourist parties will be conducted through Utah's wonderlands six months out of the year. Kotitliejistern Utah also boasts of an other attraction which is little more known than th bridges of LltUe Zion. Kvery school child knows something about the ancient Cliff Dwellers, but the name usually has been associated with New Mexico and Arizona, and in recent years to a certain extent with southwestern Colorado. Nevertheless, some of the larger and more important habitations of an ancient civilization have been found in abundance In tho vicinity of tho great , natural bridges. Mesa Verde Park. But across the Colorado slate line, in southwestern Colorado, and easily accea-' accea-' sible by way of the Denver & Rio Grande, Ik the Mesa Verde national park, which contains the largest and most complete : cliff dwellings yet discovered. Tho gov-1 gov-1 eminent already has taken steps to care s for tourists tn Mcpa Verde and an ex-1 ex-1 tensive advertising campaign Is to be 1 Inaugurated this summer by the passenger passen-ger department of the Denver & Rio - Grundo. But Utah has fiUU another national t monument of which comparatively little n has been henrd. Though one of the most e Important discoveries In recent times. n from an archaeological standpoint, it is: - scarcely known cutHrie the section of the - statu in which it lies the dinosaur naif na-if tl-nal monument. nar Jensen. Utah. Krom thU quarry, for such the national o monument r'-olly is, have been taken the j finest and largest specimens of the pie- . 1 :L t- I W . I f , '-S- "'V. f , ' kf historic dinosaur. For several years the Smithsonian Institution has had representatives repre-sentatives working at the big quarry taking tak-ing out the bones of prehiHtorlc animals. Many of tie finds hve been sent to eastern museums and there mounted as tiie finest known examples of the ani-i;iti ani-i;iti lti of prehistoric Ame'lca. National Monument. Tho Dinosaur uat iunal monument is ncTe easily reache 1 than any other in the state, hut It is rather out of the way in c.o far as any other scenic attractions are concerned. Because it stands practically prac-tically alone and is comparatively small In size. It likely will never attract any great number of tourists. It should, however, how-ever, attract many motorists who travel fiver tho Pike's Peak Ocean-to-Ocean highway. The Union pacific also has many scenic attract inns to the easterner as It crawls t h rough and over the mount a ins to t he cast. Tn ariv other part of tho country these attractions woti1ifc'JA-;,0'7-e of great wonder, hLXti tfcey ro so handiwork of nature thHt they are scarcely scarce-ly mentioned in publicity bearing on the western country. Salt I -ake City also is the gateway, or hub if yon please, for four great high-wvs,ttie high-wvs,ttie Lincoln highway, the Pike s Peak Ocean-lo-ncean lilghway. tho Mld-IhihI Mld-IhihI trail and the WHmvst oue-Cra nd Cun-vou Cun-vou highwiiv. Kacli of tiiese great highways high-ways rontrlbnted materially to the tourist travel through Salt Lake during til past season. Highways Improved. Improvement work on all the hitrlmays v;i responsible for luindreils. even tliou-Hiiris tliou-Hiiris of mutorlsis aMoniptuipr transcon-tlnental transcon-tlnental trips Jurlns Hie year 1 !16. Motor travel vv;is further encounied tlironpn the western country by tiie action of the rieinrtnient nf the interior In permitting automobiles in Vcllowstono national pitrk. To such fin iiilv:ints,'e were motor vehicles vehi-cles ueii Inst vear in Yellowstone park that there Is a prolm hi lit y that the old stares will be relegated to tlw .-cr r.i -heap in 1IIIT and only dioj.-iaWOMsH a a means of trnnsportuj' u tl.touKh hollow-stone hollow-stone park, - - I Anotl-r Trav uhtcli promises to con-tr(bJ- lintcIV in, '"the' tourist travel throu-h Salt L.Vls the Arrowhead trail, or silfVear rmil( hotw.ccn Salt Daka City A and southern Ca' 1 tho new highwa ,f last summer, ant j , be done before it year travel. Sr I largely rcsponsll 2 nnw route to ( jf object was to M continental toi f tlie Pacific cff California insi-I niento and Su I Arrowhead The efforts f California weif dents of Nev. It la cntirelv I date the Arr-1 as many ami! nental tourist S from Salt La 1-1 Kxte-nsive a-' f ho lnaugurale-. cm railroads of the oh st tourists west The outlook of railroad trfi blight for a 'f Iout the west V one dnlH U . full 'share. " : t |