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Show THE EEAVE3 COUNTY WEEKLY PRESS, EUAYEH, UTAI1 v v uu UULI jTC a PCCfe23 bsfoi Ky 7 v .'" te O zzi U the war ? . - R c a pacdaae ; V 14. - during ths war V 4! ft IV, rc a pacltaae NOW . ft Cf 4 -- 4 ...... H. WMiiHiMirrm V' "'jr t 7ti, 7 K t. VTh. ' f 111 - nHnT" iTr rl , THE FLAU0R LASTS 0 DOES THE PRICE! ' 1 &OB&&&lIKZZ. '!'" parks will probably contest In scenic love- ' UbeHS between Totteralt valley and Zlon canon. For tbe bill creatine Zlon canon a national nark"tia ss been passed by both bouses of In con--; and at this .writing, ferenctf over an amendment ' Calif omions nlwsys the best of boosters-Mi- av ' hmii contended that losemlte valley Is the supreme expression of scenic loveliness. They hold tht there Is nothing like U on earth. To them It 1. ' "the valley whose., compelling beuuty the world acknowlMlges as supreme,''. , ut Utah enthusiasts believe that when Zlon's beauty is known to the public losemlte will be put q thesecond tank. Of course the new Zlon National park will Bardly rank with Tosemlte as 'a national park, for the latter contains 719,022 acres, while the ' former will havB only 76,800 acres. But the con- test In loveliness between Tosemlte valley and Zlou canon 4s likely to be close and Interesting. Yellowstone Nutlonal park in Wyoming, Mon- - ! tana and jdaho, a everybody knows, was the first aatlonal park to be established (1872) In tbe world. It Is our oldest and largest and most famous scenic natural park. It geysers and bears kave made Its a a me a worldwide household word. . Tosemlte In California, established In 1890, U, : scarcely less famous; all tbe world know of Its wsterfnlls and Its big trees the oldest and ' tontest living things In the world. And Tosemlte vnlley. Its greatest beauty, ta familiar to every-li- e through pictures. It Is visited yearly by thousands ;Mhis season the attendance was (58,504. The proposed Zlon National park lies la south- -' am Utah, about 200 miles south of Salt Lake Oty. The state has made It accessible to thtf tourist by building 100 miles of automobile high-way from Lund on the Salt Lake route. The Arrowhead trait from Salt Lake City I also avail- - ' able. President Taft In 1000 created the national monument of 13,840 acre to preserve the wonderfully scenic area of the ennon of the Rio Virgin. In recent years other scenic canon were discovered, and 'in 1818 PresU Wilson enlarged the national monument to' 76,800 acre and changed It name to Zlon. In , the debate over the Zlon National park bllfln the louse Representative Welling of Utah said In UK national goon stage , flfIKCIWOlM,-4I- H. - I If Ill j ..' " ' " II - - con-cre- . grays and purples It rises abruptly 4.000. feet. The body Is a brilliant red. The upper third Is white.. The-- huge mass Is so that.lt t perfect In conformation suggest the work of a titan architect. And on top of :, the lofty central rectangle rests a squared cap of red above the glistening white. Across the cannon, and slight er to the north, rising between two peak , of deepest umber looms the great silvery dome of the Eastern Temple, clothed in 11 rTJ7VAi coloring like to it western slater. Thl - round to - a broad summit upon .which is mounted a symmetrical cap of that same ; , beautiful bloodllke sandstone formation. , Jack Lalt wrote a characteristic appreciation are and Temple East bookWept Just beyond the . of Zlon canon for a railroad administration " . d mountains, wildly ruglet. In which be said : , ranged three ged In their outlines and facing another court of "Zlon canon I n epic, written by Mother Natotally different type, from that which fronts the ture 1n her most ecstatic humor, Illustrated by Western Temple, Here again ha Bible hUtory Creation In Us most majestic manifestations, pubthree peak are lished by God Almighty a an Inspiration to all, contributed vth titles, for the and the space Patriarchs" as known "The ' the mankind. Zlon canon la the most beautiful spot Patriarchs." of the "Court base at their the on. this continent. I think I have seen all the occuf A little farther on la another trio which . that the evolution of the .. famed show-plac. part! fordifferent walL Of eastern decidedly the pies And all earth's formation of them behas made. "This region obtained It name Zlon canon "Three the called are mation and coloring, they Zlon to me stands first, stands alone." cause of the devout reverence of tbe Mormon1 Brothers." Zlon has the double charm of form and color, pioneers-- who settled upon the Virgin river more A great white dome Is known a tbe "Mountain than 00' years ago. It perpendicular wan pre- - -- and It Is hard to say which Is the more appealing. sented an Impassable barrier to hostn. tribes of "" The entrance to the canon Is spacious and of. the Sun." Here the break In both canon walls have brought about s most interesting efThe course up (he Rio Virgin Is tor Indians, . who Infested these regions, and these canon for this beautiful mountain catches the first Zlon looked convenient as a tuous and fect, the variation of view and of formation upon people and hospitable refuge when threatened by atof the lofty walls I great At the end of six 'or glint of the rising and receive the last kiss of the setting sun.- - Still another feature of the tack from these troublesome Indian tribe.. Zlon,, seven miles, of canon the wall narrows to the "Mountain of the Sun" Is the tint of the fterglow eanon Is an extraordinary gorge cut from stream. What there Is beyondjs practically unthat change It chalky summit Into a rosy dome. colored sedimentary rock by the north known. Thus from' the plateav above th visiare fork of the .Virgin- - river. , It proportion tor may look down thousands of vertical feet into Many Intersecting canons and the tortuous about equal to those of Tosemlte valley, In Tothe painted canon with Its river. From the river ' course of th main canon give great variety to th bank he may look up thousands. of feet with a semlte National park ; the wall are several hunformations. Possibly El Gobernador Is the gem dred feet lower and the canon 1 considerably of them all,-- : Standing at a turn of the canon, its changing view at every turn of the canon. narrower. In the cutting of the gorge, however, , The entrance to the canon. Is most Impressive. mighty mas rise sheer 3,000 feet from the creek the torrential stream and wind and rain have, To the west rises the West Temple (7BO feet), picture that skirts it base, thl pile present carved domes, spires, towers, and other curious Cray at It base. It deara to a flanked by the Tower of the Virgin. The guar-unsurpassed. form that strikingly resemble many of tbe feadlan to the east Is the East Temnle V7.(KMn ' "glistening white with a summit that terminates In . . .... e ture of Tosemlte valley, of Jtt face there r fianked Watchn "More Interesting than- - the carving' 'of . Son' " mountain (6.6.V)). Then come the Streaked Wall hangs a wonderful natural brluge, tne top oi Red predomicliff Is their exquisite coloring.which has never been pressed by th foot of man. on the west side and tbe Brown Wall oh the east nates, as It doe In the Grand canon In Arizona, Three tbe Patriarchs lde, respectively by topped Beyond El Gobernador th canon twists and bnt there are amaxlng combination ' of brown, . and the Mountain of the Sun. .'Extraordinary fea- -' turns until It widens out Into the most weird of blnck, and' white colors with the red and with cures of the wall formation Include El Goberna-do- r, all Its bizarre feature. . Thl la the "Great Temeach other.. White sandstone Is superimposed on the Great Organ and the Temple of Slnawava. ple of Slnawava," which occupies a vast of th red rck the red strata; ami other layer In by . wal of brilliantly colored Tlie Visitor "tome' the" to' I point where "finally " He In turu upon tHr white. The action of water wwir towprln 2.000 feet above Its floor. Here the chasm Is more than 2.000 feet deep and the walls most. remark- -. npon, tto., exp..rarace...ot,lte Ttrortme - CTertr horeeenoee resera- prodnced a symphony, of color that give the that sandstone closely object Wttlli ire practicaliy vertical and parallel and ,' biy formed canon ft greatest charm. The finishing touches on uexeou aeatea nis inrone. a Budtiha qu In blue" off the . bin above. warp cutting ' . . . . are given by the forests of the valley floor and - riven this place as the locality wnere ftlft pre- or tne secret is revealed the liere of Making the tree on the rim and in the niches of the historic peiple of thla southwestern Isnd gathered Zlon, ss Is pointed qiut by Dr. G, K. Gilbert of the - - . .v nearly perpendicular canon walla." todo reverence to Sinawsva, their ruling deity. United State geological survey. This chasm Is Until recently Zlon has been practically InacThe place fills the bill. If ever there wss a spot downward erosion by an example of cessible, and scarcely tens have seen It where and . wildly 'where weirdly mystic Incantation thousands have seen Tosemlte. But Zlon's vlsl. ' water, which act like the marble saw. The cut eem to accurately would ceremonials Impressive use been not the current has enttrely vertksl, tors have paid eloquent tribute." The: Indians Z Is, " .surroundings It tothl. same rock. carried the cutting snnd to one slde'or M oUier.r. railed It Mlinkuntuweap Land of God because bouml-pockeIn the depths of Zlon. In cut undulnjtes It the both and vertical' and It was so beautiful. The fierce Mormon sealot the prehistoric temple the canon Just beyond horixontat'sectlons. .. ',-.named it "Little Zlon" because of Jt heafr Ifs narrows' until the creek occupies every enter canin walla are extraor-dlnary- r. The form along th enly beauty. ' Away back In the ' seventies foot of the floor and feathery waterfalls dash Arid the cd)or are even more striking. John Wesley Towell of Grand canon fame from mos and lichen covered terraces. down The fahiousTerinlllon Cliff of the Painted Desert was tempted far out of his wsy by the exceeding As If these were not enough, It Is known that here combines with jhe White Cliff and we see a beauty of a temple of rock "lifting It opalescent there are other beauties possibly of even more thousand feet of white superimposed on two shoulders against the eastern sky." It wa the wonderful niuillty. Secretary Lane of the In redi But this startling combinathousand feet of vermilion body and shining white dome of the tertor .department, In recommending the bill. West Temp'e. of the Virgin at the entranc to' tion Is but the beginning of a veritable riot of wrote: colon, The Vermilion Cliff rests on the Painted Munkuntuweap. ; ''I hard dwelt particularly upon Zlon canon j .TjO; stratum Desert feet of off set deeper red re Impressed; with the marvelous "Again w It Is now so readily accesnlble and becsttse umuv shaJL, Btow this Is hun-- r beauty , of - ouUlne, ... th. laflnita -- cow plication - of ,.ly purple aud 1t U irrttinirf belttg nsed- aw a- - toiirtst resort," Init dred feet of brown pnd gray conglomerate. The these titnnlc buttes. It U doubtful if in thl re In the reservntlon that canons are other there .crowning touch la tlie coloring of the upper sumspect Die valley has its equal. Not even the and even more beautifully colored. are hlcper mits of the White Cliff. Iere there are In places Grand canon offers a more varied spectacle; yet Still more remain to be entered and explored. In several hundred fet of varicolored shales and. sll Is welded together In a superb ensemble." T. time they will all be open to the public. Further limestone whone sfCpace fantastically stains the g. ivilenbaugh. topographer of the Powell party, more, thre are Iti the reservation mountains, wa white. In; consequence of the meeting gllstenftig wrote this on his second visit. ancient cliff dwelling, of these many-vloZlon Is as gorgeHis as a',' terfalls, natural bridges, "Nothing can exceed the wondrous beauty of and numerous other features Interesting lo the and sunrlne nnd unsunset Gypxy scarf, 7Jon ennon." wrote C E. Duttoo. "In Its proporproduce ' tourist and exceedingly valuable to the scientist bellevfible effects. , tions It Is about equal to Vowmlte, but In the nnd st sdent." .For exnniple. take the Went Temple." From a Bolilllty and beauty of Its sculptures there U ao; Tosemlte tbe Beautiful apparently must lool ' foundation of mingled reds, yellows, browns, It Is Hyperion to a Satyr." ewniMirlson. to its laurels. . ap cone-shape- d(t . es . brll-Bitv- ly HONK, HONK!' THERE YOU ARE After That It Was Easy to Understand yffrer Qld Lady Wanted Ut-- . V , tsr to Go. t A portly Dutch woman applied to the post office for send to her son In told the clerk she letter at home, but a money order to the far East She had left her son's said he was "some dot sounds like der place out In China, ' noise an automobile makes." " The clerk smiled, ssd turning to an other nearby, he said; "What kind of a noise does an automobile make, Joer "Honk,; honk !" the other suggested. "Tah, dot's It," exclaimed the wom an, 1er face brightening. "Honk "honk, dots der place." So the clerk made the order payable to Hongkong, and the woman went away happy. 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