Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-02 | Page 33 | Utah Park to Bring Tourists

it? pn 3 HIE TOURISTS sheep Nationalizing of Zion Can-wes- yon Assured, Robert Sterling Yard Says. jj Utah Citizens Urged to 1 1 Make Most of New iiu Opportunity. I'l'l I'i.-iU will become a national park fIJ state soon," is tlie prediction of Rob-Wg Rob-Wg ert Sterling Yard, secretary of the Xa-fk Xa-fk tional Parks association, in a letter to ' Governor. Bamberger. The bill to jj-j make ion canyon a national park, he s.'ivs, has practically passed congress, .Hid is now held in conference only over a question of the southern boun- Si dary, which, he 'says, will be settled. " ''Summer -Vcforc last,'' Mr. Yard said, "4.30 people visited Zion national monument. Last summer 1800 people, mostly I'l.'h motorists, visited it. Xext year with the advertisement of national 3 prese iiarklioml, thousands of persons will ;eel ili visit, it from many states, and in.fol-Mei in.fol-Mei lonS years thc'io will be many thou-comini thou-comini sands a year. This prediction is based view ofi file experience of other national the nt parks. " shun' Co-operation Asked. tend i Htfc; V'ant declared Utah citizens should awake to I lie opportunities be-in be-in tliii feH ll..jui. The association desires to e rest1' csUiblish its work firmly in this slate while! &hl coming winter. Dr. ..John A. Widt-hings, Widt-hings, ' soe, president of the University of of tfl 1'tah, is in accord with the move, he savs, ''the Oregon Short tine is help-be help-be ptt ing; the United Stales railroad adniin-TI113 adniin-TI113 ;, isrratioii is distributing literature. Now Ive tli wc w:int your business men and your te(j t people with us. ' ' d issn ' work of' the association, he says, arrant' "is an 'educational work, but its in-andic- cvita'ole practical reaction in increasing use i national' travel is such that the Denver (jj.!, Toutiil and Publicity bureau lias un-,arefr; un-,arefr; dcr'talu'ii, at its- own initiative and1 ex-Id ex-Id mf I'cuse, a state campaign for mcnib'er-of mcnib'er-of hi. ship. ' r' : msible Tourist Travel Increased. iX j, The lettei encloses a bulletin of the city's association which shows that the Yel- tmpr' lowstouc National park led in increased acrj; attendance in 1910 over 1918, with MS 'e and '"crease gn the 3918 number of tourists in 1919. Increases over last year in other parks are given as foE o this lows: Hot Springs, Ark., 14 per cent; todav Sequoia. 100 per cent; Yosemite, 77 per ; rent; Heneral Gralit, 40 per cent; press- lount liainier, 25 per cent; Crater tiakev T pir eenlj; Wind Cave, 80 per cent; p ., ("lacier, 97 per cent; Kocky Mountain, K7 per cent. v ' ?a,nl Act-pal figures for1 the attendance at c., Yellowstone are given as 02,26 1 in 1918 f'Wt' us compared with 31.895 in 1915, the1 ;neap yp.'ir of the' PajiUina-I'acific exposition, sure5" and rhe previous banner vear; 35,849 , ausf, ," . ; in 1916, 35,400 in 1917, 21,275 in 19J8. The bulletin continues: "During the year just closed, travel to our national parks, not including Hawaii and Mount McKinley, reached- the great total of 756,027 visitors. It is an increase over last year of nearly seventy per cent. It is an increase of fifty-five per cent over the previous record year of 1917, and an increase of 125 per cent overtime over-time California exposition year of 1915. That year in turn had brought twenty-five twenty-five per cent more visitors to tho national na-tional parks than the highest year preceding pre-ceding it. New Parks Included. " It was the first year of Stephen T. Mather's direction of the national parks. As a record of this year's increased in-creased national parks travel over last year's, however, the comparison is misleading, mis-leading, because the big total includes 101,745 visitors to the two national parks which were created during the current year, Lafayette, on the coast of Maine, ami the Grand Canyon, in Arizona. Deducting these, we have 654,262 visitors this year to .national parks which were in existence the j'ear before, and -were then visited by 451,891 persons. The rate of increase for, the same fourteen national parks was forty-five per cent during the current cur-rent year." The figures were compiled by the department of the interior, and are for a period up to and including October Oc-tober 15.