| Show I Sj Spotlighting b bU ring UTAH U TAIl T A H Little Little- Known Know ii Historical tl aim have boon been made doubly I IOUS of or their thell stales slates scenic cultural and historical cal attractions I l hiring Know Inow Your four Utah Week W i Ill'S I its ns concluded Among the man many mal I things ng pointed poil out b l by historical on n lasts is Js that Ih Utah dial was is cn I 01 creel IllI CH just iut 48 II years yeans after Columbus i din in ln erect crid America A I In Ii Ui-lO Ui l Captain arla Lopes Lope De Uc ardenas Spanish explorer hooked into Inlo Utah Ulah and was blocked in ill his Ills to tn filter enter the till area al althe althe the south I borders by hy the till great Arla chasm of the t hl Colorado River r. He 1 It reported that the th land north of the flit Colorado was nothing but hut a suit desert It i In lu July 1776 1770 III scone same month and Lind the Ihl of the signing of the tile I Declaration l' of Independence Path Fath er Escalante E a n noted Spanish na mis mi missionary was the second white man to discover the territory of ol Utah Accompanied by Spanish soldiers soldiers- and Indian guides the party enter entered ed rd Utah east easL of or the present town of Vernal and then cut southwest across country to Utah lake Thrill- Thrill Thrilled ed eel with the beauties of the valley the lake and the country in gen gen- general general general eral he proclaimed it New Spain and loped to tu he be able to colonize colonize- the area Irea with Spaniards |
