Show utah girl gir of thirteen describes southern souther utah in school essi essay y liy aila jenor luS alf lake tribune tho the following essay on southern utah and tier her wonderlands Wonder lands arlands was waa written by buss jenor 13 years old daughter of W W i sog seg mille of kanab speaker of th tho 0 utah house of representatives the essay wa wai 1 written in a school contest of which the prize was the publication of the essay in the local paper the kano county news from which it is hero here reproduced when our forefathers the pioneers of the LIM state of utah were led lea to the promised land of the twentieth con cen tury lary little didi did they realize that hidden in tho the vaults of the unknown rochlee lay the most indescribable scenic wonders of the world in actual awe they first behold beheld the crystal streams the beautiful vales and majestic snowcapped snow capped peaks of northern utah As aa their journeys called them southward new and interesting visions were revealed on every hand dut but not even in the prophetic and farseeing far seeing mind of the pioneer did there exist oven even the vaguest vague st idea that in southern utah hidden from the gaze of an ever curious world lay scenic wonders whose transcendent beauty defies all description of tongue or brush so commonplace have become these erlanda to the children of those sturdy fathers and mothers who so nobly undertook and so faithfully finished the task of making the desert into a garden of food and flowers that it remained for strangers to discover and advertise the mhd wonderous beauty of utah dixieland Di leland come with me then take a little hike up silver rio virgin now we enter national park As we approach the great white throne our very beings are filled with the import of that word zion the abode ol of gods people As wo we journey up this ever winding stream the sheer and precipitous cliffs towering thousands of feet above our heads bring us tor for the first time to realize the insignificance ot of man and the overwhelming great greatness noSS of him who created all things the grand canyon of the colorado to is said to be the greatest gorgo gorge in all the world but even so it cannot compare in coloring and majestic sheer walls walla of stone stolle with zion national park our journey now from hurricane let us hesitate one moment at the top of the rugged ridge to the east and behold the most beautiful agricultural scene in all america hurricane valley the of the west eastward now in the shadow of the vermilion cliffs we wend our way over the painted desert with all its alluring mirage and endless expanse of territory to the most beautiful be dutiful oasis in any desert deserf the little city of kanab nestled in a semicircle pt pr brilliant vermilion beauty it is said that when the spirit of Minnel minnehaha itilia was seeking the prettiest hunting ground in all indian heaven she was attracted by a sparkling brook wending its way through a thicket of willows and christening tho the spot kanab ever since her spirit sits enchanted on the throne of the goddess diana hilt way from kanal kanah to mt carmel over ever the eve olef restle rest loia 13 sanda sand ot of the i head waters ot of kanab creek through the fertile fields of long valley we journey in a spirit silent and worshipful as we would the majestic a beauty of the water inscribed cliffs of white mountain reaching the head of the rio RI 0 virgin we divert tor for the ille moment to the westward through sevier forest crystal streams on every side elde streams that hat burst in one huge flood only to disappear again like an alluring spar it of the wilderness now wo we reach the tha navajo lake clear as aa a crystal blue as the ocean and pure as the dews of heaven beautiful beyond description dut but let us hasten on our journey to the top of tho the mountain and lake ako our position on point supreme looking northward we seg se unfolded the most beautiful coloring that nature in all her thousands of years of j experiment has yet been able to produce all the colors of the spectrum are so beautifully interwoven and so perfectly blended thit that I 1 must leave the task of description to someone whom god has blessed with grouter greater powers 5 th than mine oh coda cedi breaks your coloring sublime un equaled and indescribable it boasi ble lot us now be ba aroused from thi enchanted dream of Co color lorland lani ing ft long enough to view the great E bunto desert which binds utah gal and nevada in the bo a 0 ot t state wo we retrace our steps now to to tte hg head of the virgin and have only to turn a little north northward warI to find our tho the head waters ot of the ge q vier Laugh laughing iii brooklets broo klets spark ll streams and rushing rivers |