Show JILSON ON GIVES NEW NAME J TO MON IN UTA i Park Is En En- by President and Given Name of Zion Destined Destined Destined Des Des- tined to Wide Celebrity P PRESIDENT RESIDENT WILSON WI SON has enIT enlarged en- en IT the wonderful f 1 Mu Dill- kunt national monument in Utah and changed its name It Itis Itis is now officially known as the Zion National Monument which is im immeasurably immeasurably im- im measurably better from every point of ot view The old name besides being hard to tD pronounce and remember was obscure In origin and was never used except officially The Thc new name is that in popular use Besides it the romantic history of this amazingly beautiful valley alley the surrounding country was settled by idy Mormons many years ago and this difficult canyon was chosen as a refuge In the event of ot Indian attack and called Little Zion to differentiate it from bi big bib Zion which was Salt Lake Lalie City Since then it has universally been called Zion canyon The enlargement of ot the Zion National Nation Nation- al Monument follows naturally upon its recent thorough exploration and th the discovery of outlying areas of altogether altogether altogether alto alto- gether extraordinary scientific interest and scenic grandeur That its fantastic cliffs its sensational coloring and its romantic conformation will bring it national popularity as a resort is manlest manifest man mani lest fest destiny It has been called caned for for- good gool reasons the little tittle Grand canyon and the desert Yosemite but It is no miniature of either its individuality is marked REMARKABLE COLOR VARIETY The original monument w was wa as created cheated by proclamation in 1900 but being I well out e the highways of ot ordinary travel it was not thoroughly explored until within the last two years Official Official cial investigation and a action promptly followed Among the numerous geologic features features fea tea tures tunes of ot interest wrote Secretary Lane to the president two deserve more than passing notice The Vermillion cliff so called because of its brilliant 4 color famous since the days of ot Major Powells Powell's exploration as one of the most remarkable in the world an es escarpment escarpment escarpment es- es more than miles long and so precipitous that it can be scaled in few places passed through this monument ment It consists of red rd sandstone 1000 to 2000 feet thick and overlaid by 1000 feet of ot glistening white sand These two form single cliffs nearly feet high These remarkable walls bear evidence that the sand sand gathered gathered in ina a deseret in ages long past that past that here was a great prehistoric American Sahara The se second ond feature of ot unusual Interest in interest In- In i 1 terest lies immediately above th the sand for the desert was destro destroyed d by the In Incursion incursion incursion in- in of sea water which covered the drifting sand and buried burled it beneath gypsum and beds of ot limestone In which were entombed the shells and bones of sea animals PICTURESQUE MORMON NAMES The principal canyon canon which which which-is is more than fifteen miles long and varies from fifty feet wide In the Narrows to 2500 feet wide in other portions is a a. mighty cleft as if the mountain had been violently vio i riven asunder The walls are inconceivably carved into domes half halt domes colonnades and temples forms which appealed strongly to the the- religious ious sous imagination of the earl early Mormons Mormon who gave them names which appeal strongly to the imagination of ot today's tourist The tortuous outlying canyons and monumental rock formations added by bythe bythe bythe the new proclamation make mali an area as remarkable in its its particular way why I as las the tho Grand canyon There are aro several neighboring natural bridges pf of mag mag- |