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Show PARTYOF TOURIST' RMKES BECmi Ifei State, Railway and Q i( Officials Enjoy Visit j, Southern Utah. 'j AUTOMOBILESUPERioj r Roads Found to BeinG0oJ j Condition; Visit. Rim of Grand Canyon, By driving the big ten-pas.,., Ing car through to Rockville, 1 ' using teams, from Virgin Cit'y thl , " of state, railway ana touring officials that left here last Satav"'1 for a tour of southern Utah Jf Rockville at 5 o'clock yesC."' one hour ahead of schedule V touring car. driven by Fred created a sensation wherever it .iff In southern rtah, but lla 1 m IJH Ii gin five times and succwful v Dm irg n C ty and Rockville hai nel ' e,ua,ea ,n that section by was in waiting. On Sunda , ft 1 'K siomsts drove to Kanab. and o SI ! , to Blight Angel, where thev camLj' 1 i night. On Tuesday they return " nalj. ami yesterday made th , Kanao to Rockville, etopplnr ' . Si Spnngs to' look at the old Ion li. Hurricane for luncheon. ' ,i Auto Is Efficient. ,a Accjrding to arrangements m., fore the party left here, msZV -J l Hirschi of Rockville met the err' ' ' 1 sta at Virgin City with tearn , Ing that the automobile would iisv. - abandoned there for the trip u'' ' ' Zion. Mr. Boucher, however jr" that the automobile could make i-T . and it did, the teams following ""' . The excursionists remained in M ville last night and will start morning on a trip throush I1.C-; m valley. The trip from Ruckvii , Jill least from Springdale, to the ('. miles up the canyon will be nV: i wagons. The plan is to make t'"' : X ney to the cable, and return to E . ville by wagon, and bv amomr.t.1'; -Rockville to St. George. - The par. J6f pects to reach SJ. George loniEji. ': ! ' to Lund tomorrow and reach Sait " J 'J Saturday morning. ' lIU Road in Good Shape. 'j j The road from Lund to Hurricane : y ported to be one of the best in ih ; The recent rains washed the roa'h;-northern roa'h;-northern Arizona to Kaibab vert : Hi for a distance of approximated' e ... miles. Tho road along the north the Grand canyon is reported In ' zri shape, and the party drove along t:;-within t:;-within six feet of the precipice. - Included In the partv are Go"-- i:lt William Spry, Gerrlt Fort of C. .. passenger traffic manager of the 1 Pacific railroad; D. S. Spencer, 1' at passenger agent of the Oregon j , Line; Howard Havs, general tourist-, of the Wylie-Way; Gilbert Fuller oi : "Ki ton, vice president of the Ra-;. .. t, Whitcomb Tourist agency: J. H. M:;:. J field, assistant general freight and ' -de senger agent of the Sait Lake P.oae i , George A. Kelly lof the White M-:J ' company, Cleveland, Ohio. All meTrtyrre-j- ; of the party who have seen the 'j)..,- canyon from the south rim eniir:-;! ,LUl cally agree that the view from the r.i rim Is far superior. "A?H |