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Show FIRST AEROPLANE IN CEDAR BREAKS Queer Bird Hovers foTFifst Time Over Scenic Cliffs and Above Neighboring Valleys. H, II. Bullcn, Chauncey Parry and L. B. Dutro have been in Ccdnr City four days this week with the first aeroplane that has been seen in this vicinity. Mr. Parry is mnnager of the Zion Park and Grand Canyon Transportation Trans-portation company, and Messrs. Bullcn Bul-lcn and Dutro belong to tho Salt Lake Aero Club. The immediate object of the trip was to get moving pictures from the plane of the Cedar Breaks, and the snme party viewed the Zion Park dedication from the air. While here the plnno gave exhibition exhibi-tion flights at tho Fnir grounds and took passengers up for a glimpse at the landscape from a new unglc. The next trip of the plane will be to tho Grand Canyon to obtain moving pictures pic-tures of that mighty gorge. The same plane gave exhibition flights at tho Sevier county fair and went to Dixie for the carnival for the same purpose, but an accident to the mechanism prevented pre-vented exhibition flights there. The novelty of seeing an neroplane over Cedar City is fast wearing away. For the nast week the Salt Lake Aero plane Comany has had one of their machines in this vicinity, and it has made frequent flights with passengers about the valley, over the city and. above the canyons and the Cedar Breaks. A number of local people have availed themselves of the opportunity oppor-tunity of enjoying this innovation,' and we see no good reason why the aeroplane flight over the Cedar Breaks should not make a powerful appeal to tourists next summer. At any rate it is worth considering, and offers a, lucrative business for some expert aviator who is able to provide himself him-self with a plane. We cannot conceive of nnything more inspiring and gorgeous gor-geous than viewing the Cedar Breaks from an aeroplane at close range, j The opening of tho University of! Utah September 27th marked the 20th year that the state institution has been in its present location. Tiiis 20th nnniversary will nlso be celebrated by the largest registration in the history of the school, according to the first days of registration. The great growth that the State! University has made in the past twenty twen-ty yenrs is shown when the catalogues ' for the years 1900 and 1920 are compared. com-pared. In 1900 there were sixty-four graduates while at the commencement last June, 173 were graduated. When the century began there were 125 courses of instruction offered; there nre now 941, including 128 of the Extension Ex-tension Division. Twenty-seven names wore on the faculty list in 1900, while 1920 has lfil. The attendance record for 1900 was 705; last yenr it was 293C, exclusive of tho 2002 enrolled with tho Extension Division. Fourteen buildings for instruction have been added sinco 1900. i ... . i |