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Show lillllrlG SUMMER BUGS Grand Canyon and Yellowstone Yellow-stone Park Will Be Most Popular Trips. COAST TRAVEL LIGHT Vernal Country and Bear Lake Will Attract Many Local Motorists. Locally, touring will center on Yellowstone Yel-lowstone park ami the Gram! canyon this season, according to requests coming com-ing into the automobile tcuricg bureau at the Conlmercial cinb for road infor mation. "While la&t year many Utah motorists visited the coast in their cars, this season the number will be far less, and thoso wishing an outing bv automobile auto-mobile will select cither Yellowstone park or the Grand canyon. ti'hovt trips for pleasure will, however, be made into the vernal country and the lieyv lake district. The new route iuto Bear lake, by "way of Logan canyon, will be open, according accord-ing to the best information, in about two weeks. Heavy snow has delayed the opening of this routo, but the new state highway through that canyou should be in good condition by that time. That Yellowstone park will be a popular pop-ular spot for tourists is only too plainly evident from tho nieny requests received re-ceived for routes and logs into that section. sec-tion. The road-makers along the route are aware of this condition of affairs and improvements in southern Idaho are goirg on on a wholesale plan. Thi park op?ns for tourists on June 15 this year and a string of ears will probably dot Die Salt Lake-Yellowstone route all summer. sum-mer. 1 The Grand canyon trip is not as well advertised geneially around the country, on account of the inaccessibility of that btauty spot. Thoue who have visited both the Yellowstone park and the Grand canyon declare the latter is more wonderful to see, but lacks th-3 home comforts for tnoe who liUc to tako life easy. The roads to the Grand cinyo:i are' much hotter than it any year previous pre-vious and Bright Artel's point is omy three days away, muler fair weather conditions. The Tribune auto tour to ,L' -,.:4. 1 : Olt- T nl,n v, A I. LUIS IIUJliU, icav-iut; unit, xjciiyu v ij iu- gust ti, expects to reach the rim in that time. Transcontinental travel is not as heavy this season as last, and it is quite natural, because the San Francisco fair is no longer the drawing point. Nevertheless, Never-theless, cars- are passing through Salt' Lake daily and reporting at the Commercial Com-mercial club bureau for logs and routings. rout-ings. During the past w eeUs storms held up this travel considerably, but by now cars are moving again. The arrival of the Cactus Kate party this week reawakened re-awakened interest in the St. George route to southern California, but the opening of this route depends more upon Nevada and California, because Utah roads are already in good condition. |