Washington County News | 1927-08-11 | Page 7 | Object to Changing Bryce Canyon Name

OBJECT TO CHANGING BRYCE CANYON NAME Objection to having the name of Bryce canyon changed to the "Utah National park" was made by Governor George H. Dern recently in a letter to Congressman Louis C. Crampton. chairman of the subcommittee on parks appropriations of the national house of representatives. The letter in part follows: "The law creating Bryce canyon a national park undertakes to rename it as Utah Nation Na-tion Park. In my opinion this is very objectionable from every standpoint. There are many objections to renaming renam-ing Bryce, among which are these: "Bryce has already received extensive exten-sive national advertising and we would lose the benefit of all that expense ex-pense and effort it the name were changed at this time. Tire name Utah National Park has no local signfi-cance signfi-cance or application to Bryce canyon, and would fit "any other spot in Utah as well as it fits Bryce. "It implies that Utah has only one national park. As a matter of fact, Bryce will be our second national park and it is possible that we will have others in the future." I