Show I NOW UTAH By ALBERT F. F PHILIPS PHILIPS' American Fork canyon has lon Ion been wn as the Yosemite of 01 Utah and its succession of wild urges gorges and vales als mal male e it ono or oc the most picturesque canyons canons ot the Wasatch range It opens into Utah lake laka basin was told ti a tourist yesterday when he sought the gorge lIe had been to told d of the of the can canyon on as he came ame across tho l range by train and when he be t tho tho Great Salt lake basIn he was with questions So he at In one of oC the clubs and this i Is the story that was told him him American canyon I Is two thirty miles south I of oC Salt City It i is reached T D Ig h noted not only for the tho towerIng altitude ot of Its inclosIng wall wails but for the of th infinite I shapes resembling artificial objects towers pinnacles and minarets At first the formation is ran Ite arId and the cliffs rise to lofty lony hel heights almost verti- verti cally caily Then comes quartzite conglomerate and sand and stone TIle The canyon opens open to the sky ky and you ou enter a along long iong gallery tim tho sides of which recede at an angle Ie ot oC 45 degrees de to a a. dizzy height profusely set with elemental ele- ele mental sculptures in an endl endless variety of sIze and anel patterns onen stained wl with h rIch colors Towers battlements shattered castles and amid the Images es of oC mighty sentinels exhibit their outlines against the sk sky flocks twisted and gnarled g and distorted distorted dis- dis here a mass like UIe the skeleton ton or of some somo colossal tree which lightning had wrenched and burned to a cinder there another vast and overhanging apparently apparently rumbling rumbling- and amI threatening to fall faU to ruin At JJ er creek th tho- tho canyon canon proper ceases time the road read hay hay- lug climbed out ot of it 2500 feet in eIght miles The are sun still but there are breaks where the conic come in grassy hills asp aspens ns and pines S STo To To the pf o the canyon canon scenery in summer sum sum- mer mCl an indescribable beauty is added in time the when the deciduous trees and on a thousand thousand thou thou- sand slopes slopE touched by frost present nt the tho colors of of- ofa a arich rich painting and meet the eye cre wherever it rests To 10 get the fun full benefit of this one must go up and up until there is nothing higher to climb Iio In wInter another and very different pha Phase o sue sue- ee ds The snows descending for lays das and days In blinding clouds b bury lY the forests and fill the canyons l Accumulating to a great depth on high and steep declivities it ft starts without warning and burIes in ruin cr may be In its track aek ilie he avalanches of the tho Wasatch are arc as ablo as aR those of the Alps Probably fort forty feet of snow falls faUs on tho main range lange every winter Entranced and nd enthralled the tourist listened to the description of American Fork canyon and amid when the narrator had time the tourist exclaimed Anti nd aU all this in your own state Your word picture of this this' magnificent gorge should bring pring thousands to Utah Yet you ten tell me that this great canyon Is Ia sim- sim pl lIY ono of many others othel's or of equal beauty and that farther far far- ther down the state you have es Cedar and Zion national park pari that in grandeur the have havo described you canyon just 5 AS |