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Show FIRST OUTSIDE OP LOCAL PEOPLE TO VISIT SCENERY HERE Des Moines, Iowa, June 11. Mr. D. C. Watson, Saint George, Utah. Dear Clark: I have your letter of June 4th, inviting me to be present at Pine Valley Mountain on the Fourth of July. As one of the old original boosters of Dixie and about the loudest talker for Snow's Canyon and the top of Pine Valley Mountain, along with Zion. I should be present, but unfortunately unfor-tunately a few days later I have to talk to the Montana Pharmaceutical Association and the next date is out at Hoquiam, Washington, so I just can't be there. Just to show that my heart is with you, I" enclose a check for $25.00 to add to the fund for the advertising campaign. I thought perhaps you might be interested in-terested in the following excerpt from a letter I recently received from Robert Rob-ert Sterling Yard, Secretary of the National Parks Association: "So far as I can learn, you are, (excepting of course, the local Mormons) Mor-mons) the first visitor to follow the geologists. I think it highly probable prob-able that your claim of being 'the first person from the outside world to visit this mysterious wonderland with no other object than to enjoy its beauties,' is justified." j You can figure that I am going to be with you in spirit on this eventful j day and more than that, (along about 1 the first of September I wouldn't be ; surprised if you would see me, a friend of mine from London and a couple of my boys roll into Saint George in an antiquated Cadillac on our way to Pine Valley, Zion and the Grand Canyon. Very truly yours, CARL WEEKS. |
