Show PICTURES OF GRAM CANYON mr eyre fowell press representative of the union pacific railroad and press agent extraordinary of the newly christened alon national park Is at the cedars hotel with the mission of preparing for a film reproduce ed excursion to the north rim ot the grand canyon of the colorado the idea as gathered from mr powell s explanation Is to conduct a typical group of along the rim ot the canyon making moving pictures of all the interesting stages ot the trip designed to arouse in the jovla patrons of far off countries the impulse to visit in person the scenes filmed sir interesting illustrated feature stories of alon park wonders have done more than anything else to call the attention of the reading public to that scenic wonderland his whole mission is to proclaim unceasingly and above all attractively the scenic wealth of the west the railroad he represents is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to this end in regard to the need of a road connecting alon Kat lorial park with the grand canyon fand the need of batter roads in general he takes the stand that the first need is a vigorous advertising campaign that will create an urgent public demand tor the road this will force its construction he pointed to the amazing system of concrete highways california baeb built and the vast amount of advertising ver the state had done before building its concrete roads and which had in fact made possible their splendid roads any talk of building a road anywhere batore a strong public demand has been created for it Is in his opinion contrary to the natural laws of community development the party which wilt make the trip to the canon with mr powell will meet him here within about a ateek prominent members of the party are clarence J blanchard of the united states service and mr I 1 B perrine of idaho falls idaho one of the leading figures in the reclamation work of the west mr perrine is credited with a large part in the promotion of the great irrigation systems recently constructed ted in idaho the latest of which Is the mammoth bruneau project these gentlemen have as an important object of their trip the investigation of the virgin river reclamation project in washington county which irrigation engineers have predicted would go through in some form or other before long the interest of mr perrine in the proposed development la said to promise immediate gratifying results for the people of washington county interested in putting more land under cultivation iron county record |