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Show Professor Reid Presents Lecture On Beauties of Southern Utah "Wbat tourists see in the beauties of Southern Utah" was the subject of an illustrated lecture lec-ture given at the West Ward Conjoin Con-join M. I. A. meeting held in the Elementary school building. Sunday Sun-day evening, by II. L. Reid, head of the Division of Social Sciences at the Dixie junior college. "All Southern Utah should be set aside as a National Monument." said Mr. Reid. "Eighty-five per cent of the different strata flayers) of the earth's crust can be seen in the Grand. Zion and Bryee Canyons. In the layers of roek in these canyons we see the history of animal life written in nature's own hand writing. As we pass through the various strata we go from no fossil life at the bottom of Grand to the other extreme ex-treme at the lop of Bryee. where we find the highest type of focjl animals ( mammals). "Tourists not only come to see ;the beautiful colors of the tower-jing tower-jing rocks but the geological classic which can be seen at no other place on earth," he added. |