Show 1 i tw r a av z H Ht Cr fJ r F v t i t t 5 I I I p 1 VH t s x v Kyr r f py Tl ill u r. r i C w 0 11 D 1 R LAN p i iv f P v p V j Y l fil y 2 1 r s J II 2 i k 1 f a i it t f y 94 A 47 Y w H t f r 4 cr tY t K f a S c a Fd i 14 a s a t W n. n tr ZV f. f r t y n ro rora I ra A ar r 4 nv roi r 1 I Ii t y a s 1 i s I 1 F a s b i iJ t 4 L J y y or t 1 C 9 j F leJ t i f ta t 4 S t St 31 w 2 Ap k et f t n O a y A h r aw p Y y a r ria rt ia 4 AUTOS OPEN OPEN DOOR TO TOS S WONDERLAND IN UTAH'S w 1 TL 1 kj hj SUPERB O OI HILLS HI By Marion Marian A. A Byrne tr j LAST Utah's Scenic Wonderland Wonderland Won- Won derland is coming into its own Th The magnificent state 1 gI now being constructed Jave reached out far enough so haft hat in combination with road instruction carried on by the theal National al government they have a section of country hat will rapidly take its place placer m r the Yosemite the Yellow- Yellow t tone ne and Glacier Park as one of thi Americas America's s scenic marve marvels Is Within this new neAV Mecca for the our at are hundreds of square 1 of f country filled with wierd n R majestic formations con con- in every feature with Avith withy y other attractions of the studded West Vest Fist First t of all in this great area of is Zion Canyon which years cause caused wo wonder der and ement on the part of the few eople who have braved the hazi haz- haz i of f rough travel and meager in order to view of this practically own land i maCA OF ARTISTS Such ch artists as Moran Knight I Culmer Calmer and Fair- Fair I anks anks have penetrated its gorges Ii brought forth studies from hick chich paintings have been devel- devel P ped that have astonished the r rifles s. s Yet when others followed I es artists into this practically wn canyon they returned I reports that the wierd and colorings of these greatly I I sed paintings told but half i ie pory tory ory of Zions Zion's grandeur i So ho for nearly two tAvo generations r ache walls Avails of this strange exp ex- ex i p in earths earth's eccentricity ream reamed re re- re am amed d hidden from the sight of ofle le casual sual visitor until now pow the stance istance conquering motor car cari carin i in roll into the very v very ry heart of ion i ions ion's beauties and deposit its at the doors of a Way camp the proto- proto those comfortable resorts Inch have so long welcomed visors vis vis- ors to the Yellowstone as all happened through the tl lency ency of Utah's good roads movement that the northern and southern sections of the state are arenow arenow arenow now connected by a first class highway The story of this highway highway highway high high- way is romantic in itself for away back in the days when our West was in its swaddling clothes President Brigham Young first dreamed out the road plans that were ere to be carried out so many decades later President Young was among the first to visit the I canyons canyon's wonders and to him fell feU I Ithe the christening of the great cleft which so impressed him that he give it the name of Zion a title held in deep reverence by the church of which he was the leading leading leading lead lead- ing spirit MILES FROM LUND By the automobile route now established Zion is just an even hundred miles from the station tation of Lund on the Salt Lake Route and the drive is made jn n less than seven hours with a stop for lunch at Cedar City a most attractive little community nestled under the shadows of the southern spur of the Wasatch range and which really marks the northern boundary boundary boundary boun boun- dary of this most wonderful and I attractive scenic area of which Zion is a leading f feature The flee drive from the railway to to Cedars Cedar City is thirty five miles miles miles' in inan inan inan an easterly direction and all along the way the traveler faces j j the range which gradually rises in I 1 his path its color slowly changing I from the deep purple of distant effects of the solid grays to the country rock splashed with the vivid colorings of red and yellow II sandstone the whole softened by bythe bythe the varied green of scattered cedars cedars ce ee- dars and wi widespread areas of chapparal and mesquite It is a most pleasant introduction to a aland a aland I land of mountain wonders where every mile shows a vista differing entirely from the last From Cedar City the route follows follows follows fol fol- fol- fol lows the historic state highway and about twenty miles to the south tips over the rim of the great intermountain basin over which the waters of prehistoric Lake Bonneville were spread All along the road is flanked with towering mountains that shut in f tir M r r. r ir 9 a aa aa N Nr ai r e i a I 4 t y r S 'S a t r s R Rr i y 3 ti r tar N J I T 8 r 4 S r I II f i I t n rd Wa i S yF t 1 I I Id 1 I I i iI iI iI d I a e v i t h k a f r r t. r f v E Y r 1 Y Y Y Q C 1 1 a. a 6 c v yM I f h bya I I rl r J Fw i i l L w 1 f r. r M f 1 y fr v J t p J a e ak veal t tA k i A B Bt AO y 9 t r T o h M w f J g J yi e y t y l ro J y S w xi 9 L x fertile valleys alleys green with crowing rop NATURES NATURE'S MARVELOUS FAULT Here the rim rith of the basin is known as the Black Ridge and the rock formation gives truth to this title where the road winds down through the rocky gorge leading into Utah's Dixie Seventy five miles from the railway railway rail rail- way finds the traveler in the valley valley val val- ley of the Rio Virgin which breaks through a grim canyon where it has cut its way through the walls Avails of what geology terms the most marvelous fault in all the worlds world's history Here certainly cere certainly is some tremendous break for when the earths earth's surface was was was' riven by some gigantic disturbance disturb disturb- ance that portion west Avest of what is known as th the Hurricane Fault dropped a full two thousand feet leaving the eastern area a great suspended mesa with an edge ragged as a ripsaw and andover overlooking overlooking overlooking over over- looking a stretch of country extending extending ex ex- tending ding far over into Nevada and Arizona But we Ave are on our way Avay to Zion i and have no time to investigate the marvels of Hurricane Fault I geology nor can we stop to look lover over the pretty little Mormon communities that lie on either bank of the Virgin II Here pre re grow the famous Dixie pe peaches ches the fig the pomegranate almond and th the walnut in hi fact everything that characterizes semitropic AmericA save the citrus fruits Blessed with Avith the richest of soil accompanied by an nn abundance of water Avater for irrigation and just lately brought into close touch with markets by means of good roads and the perfection of auto trucks this semitropic Utah is coming back into the prosperity I that marked its earlier parlier years when its cotton fields supplied the intermountain communities and its vineyards furnished grapes and wines LINKS ROCKY TEMPLES With a sharp turn to the east cast we climb over the rim of the great fault following the south bank of the waterway where the state road leads through the little towns of Virgin City and Rock Rock- ville Here we reach the confluence confluence ence of two tAvo creeks that form j. the head waters of the Rio Virgin One of these creeks called the flows from the east while its si sister ter stream known as the comes straight down from the north and like a crystal chain links rocky temples I I i green bottom lands and frowning narrows that form the total of Zions Zion's wonders Long before we Ave reach the point of northward turning the great divide that marks the western boundary of Zion canyon has loomed before us and we AVO are attracted attracted at at- by a gigantic pile pilo that throws its summit four thousand feet above the valleys valley's floor As the lowering sun strikes this great mountain its western side is is' illumined illumined illumined mined in a hundred tints and colors colors col- col ors ois ranging from the grayish white of its gigantic dome to the deep red of the great sandstone cap that surrounds its it's summit Here we recognize the peak which the Mormon leader titled the West Vest Temple of the Virgin We Ve turn northward and find that this wondrously colored mount marks the eastern side of Zions Zion's portal and do not wonder at its christening by the grandeur of its wondrous formation formation- and the marvel marvel marvel mar mar- vel of its colorin colorings it is truly a natural temple Nowhere in all the world can there be found a amore amore amore more striking facade than that which forms the east front of this wierd mountain and and in conjunction tion with the array of peaks a and d dome like summits that flank it iton iton iton on the north it is easily transformed transformed transformed trans trans- formed into a temple where adoration adoration adoration ador ador- i I may be offered to that Great Architect whose master hand designed designed de de- de signed the universe EAST TEMPLE lOver Over a across ross the canyon and forming its eastern portal rises another mountain of like formation formation formation forma forma- tion carrying a duplicate of the great sandstone cap This is is known as the East Temple and though second to its western sister in magnificence stands asa asa as asa a fitting introduction to Zions Zion's glories Within the National monument which will shortly be changed to toa toI a national park the government has supplemented the work of Utah by the construction of an excellent road over which the auto glides passing in quick succession succession succession suc suc- cession the three peaks known as the Capitol christened for its resemblance to our nations nation's principal principal principal prin prin- cipal building at Washington High on the shoulder of the middle middle middle mid mid- dle peak is one of Zions Zion's strange formations in the shape of a natural natural natural na na- na- na tural bridge that stands like a great bow with Avith either cither end anchored anchored anchored an an- to a rocky base overlooking overlook overlook- ing the chasm created by an erosion erosion erosion ero ero- sion that left this ribbon of rock hanging high in air nir A backward glance against the Western sky shows a formation that outlines a human face cut like cameo upon the canyons canyon's wall Avail Legendary lore loro has construed construed construed con con- this face to be that of a a famous chief who after his passing pass pass- passing ing was transformed into the guardian of the canyons canyon's portal On in into o Zions Zion's depths the auto carries us passing on the right the Three Brothers and entering the the Court of the Patriarchs where another trio of gigantic and many colored pyramids tower in van colored grandeur Winding beside the foaming stream the road climbs over a at t slight divide and passes out onto I Ia a broad meadow from the eastern eastern east east- I ern border of which rises a t towering tow tong r I ering dome rightly christened the I Mountain of the Sun since its I great white summit is first illumined illumined iHu- iHu mined by the morning rays and through a great break in the western wall carries the final touch of departing light At the very base of this great sun mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain is located the canyon camp where are clustered inviting tent houses grouped about a social center center center cen cen- ter with Avith amusement and dining halls GOVERNOR MOUNTAIN With another day comes a journeying by horseback or on I foot to a hundred places of van van- tage There is a trip to where I lumber is brought from the canyons canyon's canyons canyon's canyons canyon's can can- I yon's rim on a cable that brings its load down nearly three thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand feet On the tho way Avay is passed one of the canyons canyon's most striking formations a gigantic peak cut to toa toa toa a flat table on its summit and towering over three thousand feet above the tho canyon floor Its chalk- chalk like strata in sharp contrast to the reds and browns that surround surround surround sur sur- round it brings this pl mountain mountain moun moun- tain tarn out in clear relief Its n name me meis is El EI Gobernador Across the tho canyon and in an elbow of the creek rises a mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain closely resembling El HEl Gobernador Gobernador Gobernador Gob Gob- in everything but color this western pile titled c The The Angels Angel's Angels Angel's Angels Angel's An An- gels gel's Landing being tinted in deep reds and deeper browns Farther to the north are fields for most interesting exploration c covering vering the Zion narrows where the canyon shrinks so that the little little little lit lit- tle creek covers its floor from wall to wall Up to the narrows narrows' portal portal portal por por- tal lies a great circular amphitheatre amphitheatre amphitheatre theatre with Avith walls towering over two tAvo thousand feet Though moderns moderns mod mod- erns have attempted to give to this rock bound circle a twentieth century title it will win stand forever forever forever for for- ever a as the tho cc Temple of of Sina Sina- ina- ina wava or the place of worship 1 for the greatest of Indian gods whom legend declared was Avas here venerated in days before history j first told the story of our conti conti- nent Trails lead from the floor to th the rim of the canyon and the ardent ardent ar- ar dent dent explorer may find thousands of u blazed pathways upon which to invest his energy In fact Zion is but the heart of a great country filled with wondrous formations formations for for- forr r and inspiring vistas istas Hardly a fraction of these hasas has as asyet yet been even explored but with Avith the opening of of Zion to regular travel the geological and topographical topographical topographical topo topo- graphical societies with the mountaineering mountaineering moun moun- associations are already turning their attentions to Utah's new wonderland and will Avill in but buta butI a short time convert to Zion canyon canyon can can- yon you a vast tide of interested tors Among all the wonders of our western scenery there is none that can rightfully be compared to Zion canyon Here in southern Utah lies a marvel that so totally I differs from froni all ail the other beauty beaufy spots which our government hasset has lias i iset set aside as national playgrounds First among Zions Zion's wonders is isher isher is isher her absolute diversity With ever every turn the visitor is confronted confronted con con- fronted by a vista differing totally totally to to- tally from those he has already viewed N Next ext comes the won Avon wondrous 3 a drous colorings that have rightfully rightfully rightfully right right- fully caused the naming of this gigantic gorge Yosemite done in oils Thus when it is considered that tAvo two thirds thirds of Zions Zion's wonders are still undeveloped and unrecorded i it is clear that with a complete opening up of not only Zion it itself itself itself it- it self but the miles on miles of tributary tri tri- r wonders Utah will Avill present to her visitors a scenic country at least equal in grandeur and rr beauty to that offered by an any a other section of the gloriously beautiful West |