Show i I I WONDER REGION OPEN TO PUBLIC I Zion Canyon as Yet Only Partially Explored ed Declared De De- J I Glared dared Finest ii iq U. U S. S I LOS ws Dec Pec Z-A Z A. A fe report 1 of the director of ot national park service ser ear vice to the secretary o of oC tb the interior Iha I ha b. has lust Just been received and o of parI par- par I ocular interest is the report on j I I national monument or I Zion canyon canon about which little Is I 1 known except to the few e government i and private explorers who ho have bave pope pane portions of it D During g the te last year ar the e govern govern- i meat mem has nas done exploring in the canyon commonly known as aa II Zion U It It is declared that it ranks with the finest canyons anyone in America I There T ere are domes and spires there as astl tl iii n. n the Yosemite te but government geologists say aay these are caused by bywater bywater water erosion whereas those In the I Yosemite were chiseled out by lee ice The walls are ale not Dot so 80 high a. a as In th the Yosemite but the colors colon are more The Tl height t of the the- walls varies ariM from 2500 2600 to feet and occasionally a magnificent ent mountain such sueh as aa the West Temple Tempi I. I of th of-th the Virgin nets rt more than fet feet from he the be floor of ot the canyon The te report rt says MY mot most of the northern portion of ot of the great groat gorge has haa not been Moen explored I This post past season is III the first that tat the public has had opportunity to enter the canyon and d plans plane are und under uRr underway r way for developing it and making it one of ot the big sightseeing centers of th thO United States |