Show 11 OJ Sm Town Small Tow lI-Tow Park With a Big Big- City Air PRESENT size attendance and IN activity our second sec sea and ond youngest n national park Bryce canyon Utah Is a small affair so affair su so small In fact that I Its doings are sug of ot the adventures of a 0 smalltown small town police or fire department If It parks parks- were we're Inclined to be jealous of each other Its bigger brothers could laugh ort off the mention n of ot nr Bryce ce as us easily as M a n physician of ot forty years ago ngo could e have passed by the name of ot Rochester Minn But forty years now from from Yell well you'd lud letter plan to visit this Art Gallery r of or the Ages Aes much earlier than thun that because some of these days B theres there's 8 going to be an nn awful traffic Jam even out there In InU U Utah ah J 1 J Bryce c canyon on wl which ch became a ana ana- national na national na- na monument In tn 1 1023 23 mid and graduated u ed Into Hedged full c p In la 1023 Is one of ot the sma smallest II of at the thc entire list of twenty pile ole having only twenty twenty- two twenty o squa square o miles miles' s' s area r in Ip c comparison on to Yellowstone's or 01 l Mount lunt Ic Icy's s 2 2045 2615 G 5 It Is not e c even hug big enough to o have Its own gWI n in superintendent In fact having ha only a minority Interest in in Its superintendent Its supervisor Its chief chief ranger und and un Its chief clerk They li j mire are r borrowed rr i irom from rom zi Zion i n national f park 54 l. l miles les away by hy air nir and find HiS by road rond although a u new neap and und shorter 1 highway y Is s now practically completed com completed com com- Oli- Oli Bryce has n. n no animal life with th the possible exception n. n of ot a n few mv d deer r there were wel no pp I animals 1 to start with and so far far apparently not even the Union hotel manager has hns happened en l' l to lo think of ot borrowing some The pat p park ll k hasn't even a a ranger except the two 1 temporarily employed ed In the he summer summer one one to give gie hikes and lectures lectures lec lec- tures Lures and the other to be policeman for visiting automobile and amid to shoo the neighboring g I g ranchers ranchers' jh-e jh I e stock home oc occasionally 1 But Bur BurIn In spite of these small begin beginnings beginnings 1 this thIs' toddling tot tut of ot the park parks park's s system stem is dreaming big dreams eams Why Because the place has bus not riot only beauty but a fascinating Individuality too also a touch of ot drama Theres There's something something some some- thing about that awesome awesome- F two two-hy- three by oile shaped horseshoe ed chasm chaste of ot erosions erosion's most fantastic forms form that grips and and- hol holds s you ou they stand like la a n petrified ed march rn wooden of of of Il parade dress on and theres there's a mysterious mysterious ste m rJ rious us C appeal about them that makes s' s you want to stand guard with them through all eternity l I There Is Is- Is nomore no nu more mare restless creature cre l ure in lu the Uc world probably JY th than rt the American motorist motorist but of ot some some w who o visited l JIe the h. h Yo j fo t x Mo j. j JJ t M. 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N t r t IV J t 4 I fl J P A f l t t i fM wi 1 m i R t. t t W H f 5 1 ro y vL 1 t li ow Mg 4 d yo b bf s' s f Queens Queen's Court park last year at least a third stayed over long enough to be counted at the rangers ranger's evening lecture And more than one fourth of the total summer registration actually toll followed owed the guide guld around and into th the canyon on his dally daily nature hH hikes es 1 J The nation Is fortunate In that its Its' two ne' ne newest cst purl parks paries s. s Bryce c canyon on und and the Teton pl playground are of ot such su su- superlative superlative u. u individuality Indi and therefore of national appeal There are three or r four parks In the s system sfern nh already ead unfortunately which s seem m to have only a nominal and therefore regrettable regret regret- table claim to that df distinction and congress congress' Is constantly besieged with a additional demands for tor park palk creation which would flatter mend local prides but hut which h reflect renert little If It any ny reason f for r national attention or expenditure rake Make state parks out of them a u thousand thou thou- I sand annA times yes tD arid and O n r in D u had bad or Mammoth caves es or the time Great Smoky mountain r region lon might pre pre- presumably sit unabashed In the same distinguished dIstinguish cd family circle with with Yel or Hr Bryce ce or Yosemite or the Grand Grund ran canyon on but ns mf as for fOJ the purely local s heres here's hoping for to-r st statesmen esmen with time the courage to forget torget them I But back brick to nr Bryce ce Beg borrow bonow I or steal summarized d one ont visitor If It you must ride on n a a u day coach ouch or the bumpers go 10 In an auto unto a bus or a n buggy bugi or just t plain hoof hoot it but do not fall to vl visit lt Zion park Kaibab forest forest- nl Bryce le cnn canyon and Ce Ce- dar a breaks s. s Wordy Words W d ar are fn Inadequate See th them nJ YOl yourself 1 G Western f Ne pet Union |