Show ZION CANYON V TO DRAW IN YEAR HOPE National Monument i Will Be Be Changed Iii Into to Pa Park tk Says Sas R R. S S. S Yard T arc J Visitor Little Zion canyon CAnOn will Ihl be converted con Into a national park says 58 Robert nobert Sterling Yard executive secretary of or ortho tho the National Parks association The bill providing pro for tor or the change has al already already al- al 1 ready passed paNed the Senate and Is waiting for or tho approval of or f the House The canyon CRon waa made a national monument last Jaet year car but e ap- ap vvera insufficient to add various arlous Improvements Little Zion Aon canyon non is to be changed into a national park parle As At woon aw u a a. few tew ow improvements menta have been leen made It will become one of ot the gritt tourist t centers of or the lie country court coun try tn declares Mr lr Yard This canyon cunyon is 18 one of ot the mo most t splendid scenIc areas In the world says say Mr Ir Yard rising a as it doc does straight up front from the water for 2300 OO foot feet In coloring and conformation ho the walls are ure Incomparably grand The lower part of ot deep deepest Ht vermilion Is It crowned with a snow white rock for for- mation matlon The rho walls are about nt I t feet apart and In places one cannot s see ace c the tho 81 sky because or of bends Lend In the tho river ncr Tourists to the canyon thus far Car this year have exceeded 2000 or about four times last years year's number s 5 s soon oon as this canyon iia hat lias been changed chanod to a national park and therefore advertised more southern Utah will b bomo omo me a large tourist center and tho the number of 01 visitors should exceed If IC roads to tho the park are arc improved The present highways highway Mr Yard remarked arc are full of ot holes hole and ruts rut Mr rr Yard who Is traveling tra in tn the behalf of ot the thc National I Parks ark association tion w was s at tho ho Hotel Utah on his return to Washington D. D c. c where he will ihl his findings to Congress and the department of or the Interior Ho He Is compiling a n book for tor tho thio government gov gov- on tho national parks parka of or thie the tho country countr |