Show douglas whitens party return from zion canyon sir douglas white general IL dustral agent of the silt take route passed through st george june 29 on his return trip from zion canyon where he and his party spent the week in photographing the scenic wonders of that region which hag so lately been placed in aay reich of the tourist accompanying mr white was J H buff um a prominent photograph artist and and moving picture op critor both he and mr white carried moving picture outfits and between them more than a thousand feet of moving picture film was made in the canyon besides to hundred exposures by their still cameras this is the first lime that the canyon has been and systematically photographed and the result will be distributed far and wide bv the salt lake houte one reel of the films taken will be released by the bellg tribune company and shown in hundreds of theaters within the next few weeks another means of publicity that will be used for zion is the arrowhead magazine which will devote its entire july number to zion canyon and dixie for this special number copy is now being prepared and marion A byrne arher of the interesting pollyann Poll vann tours made the journey to zion and will cover her trip in her own original way thia ia pollyanne Polly anns first visit to dixie and she has promised the NES a condensed etor of her impressions mr white and party made the entire jociney from los angeles by auto using the arrowhead trail in the mr white atas a pioneer in fact was second only to the desert trail blazer charlie bigelow in opening the auto route between loa angeles and salt lake to bigelow and white he longs the credit for all of the publicity thit tho arrowhead trail has received in pipers outside of utah angeles the party drove direct to cedar city before turning back to alon and for the entire outward trip and so fir on the return the goodyear tires used are filled with their original los angeles air mr white ia driving a new type of six cylinder oldsmobile specially equist for long tours speaking of his journey r while said you dont know how delighted I 1 am over tho successful opening of canyon we are all especially fortunate in bringing mr W W wylie into this work and the founding of a zion branch of the cylio way meins success from the another feature is the magnificent equipment and splendid service the parry brothers arc giving with their auto line from lund we can now get busy and boom zion with a full knowledge that the traveler will be taken excellent care of and find the best of accommodations a in the canyon this is all that v as needed and now I 1 consider zion canyon to have taken ita place with the yellowstone and the yosemite as one of americas scenic wonders the work we have just completed is the beginning of a systematic and widespread advertising campaign and before its second season opens zion canyon will be among the well known scenic magnets of our western land 1 I drove from los angeles and am returning the same way in order to observe conditions on the arrowhead trail I 1 am pleased with the but there is plenty to do t I 1 hope that the plans laid for rio virgin near th of a branch road to biown anaona will soon become a fact down in levadi and california we are busy and now that the route has finally been settled to enter california by way of silver lake the building up of the trail can proceed rapidly the bait lake route has no connection with the arrowhead trails association nor are any of the associations cooperating with us we have fostered the arrowhead trail to the extent of over thirty thousand dollars and it is the hope of our wn officials that it mil become the best traveled route between the and alm southern seaboard 1 I certainly hope that the arrows bead trail as an inter auto highway will be enthusiastically supported by every local community along the route the wonderful drive made by captain bird and charlie balov from Lost Angeles to salt lake and return has fully es the feasibility of the route and the ball lake route was more han pleaded to cooperate with the government and oldsmobile company in making this remarkable run a which incidentally was carried out the know ledge or help of any association or road organization between the drawing power of zion cans on and tha splendid ap to it from both east and west by tho arrowhead trail I 1 see a new and moat prosperous fu ture for dixie and her tributary country the salt lake route pirth will complete its work on the bourney homeward by making photographs of alie most interesting joints along the way using two and one half days ot grael beti veen t george and la ane |