Show automobile HIGHWAY TO LITTLE ZION state and federal aid being advocated to build a road to this scenic wonder the good roads movement lias struck washington county wit h remarkable force according to bishop david of rockville who is in salt like to day to launch n co operative movement in salt lake to secure a highway to little zion or vaclev southern utah which has been set aside as a national monument 1 I am endeavoring to get state and federal aid to put in an automobile highway from the state or grand canyon highway at either hurricane or la verkin tan county to little aion valley bishop hirschi said national interest has been aroused by alie wonders of little zion or valley since the two years ago by governor spry boughs white and alie way people we have a natural park there with more wonderful and more beautiful attractions alian the and vo want to open these wonders to the view of the world not many people have heird of abis vale of enchantment this titanic mystery of the southwest vet it surpasses all other known areas in number and beauty of its ever chancing panoramas panora maa in the ideal of its painted rocks in the mysterious enchantment of its desert solitudes ltd majestic domes are romantically suggestive and its graceful minarets mina and foaming torrents form numberless pictures filled with wizardry and potent charm there arc achna and pinnacles that tower on each side for from 2000 to feet above the bed of the valley these rise almost perpendicularly while some have eloping accents ascents of talus and other debris at their bases instead of being in one color most of these gigantic cliffs are in five and six colors while the pale gray predominates there also are pale red brown and dark gray blending into yellows and other beautiful prismatic colors they turn purple at sunset and at sunrise their peaks are silver and melt to pear at their bases all shot with every conceivable shade and color the gorge is ao narrow that it is only at noon in some spots that the sun ever touches the bottom the trend of the canyon 13 north and south there are flowers and ferns of wonderful beauty springs of water fall in broad sheets from airy heights from pinnacle to ledge and from ledge to base bathing the face of the cliff in spray and bursting into countless jeweled rainbows we want these majestic and beautiful scenes made accessible to tho natural lovera of the land we are working with our brains and our bands our intellects and our money to get that road and open the new vaclev of the wonders bishop hirschi says that farmers in washington county who a few years ago were sceptical as to the results to be obtained by dry farm ing methods have been converted and their most sanguine expectations have ean excelled satisfactory crops are being produced each year of wheat barley oats and corn A project is under way to open to settlement an area of between and acres in the big plains country adjoining the arizona line to dry farming by conserving and piping to the tract water for domestic purposes every foot of this land will be redeemed he says and will be made productive salt lake evening telegram balancing the scales of justice too nicely quite often results in short weighting some parties to alio action |