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Show residents to a seemingly unhospit-able unhospit-able land. In SI. George, one ol the largest cities in the "Dixie" region, a dazzling white Mormon Temple and a red-brick county courthouse dating from 1869 share attention with the winter home of Brigham Young, who found the climate salubrious. sa-lubrious. Now open to visitors, the house is a two-story adebe home reminiscent of New England dwellings dwell-ings of the mid-nineteenth century. A sandstone Mormon Tabernacle, topped by a white clock-steeple, lends to the old-fashioned charm of St. George. At Santa Clara, settled in 1854, a crumbling redstone house was j the home of Jacob Hamblin, often termed the "Buckskin Apostle." Hamblin was a principal factor in the maintenance of peace between the Indians of southern Utah and i Mormon colonists, and served as a j guide to Colorado River explorer John Wesley Powell during the lat-ter's lat-ter's initial trip to the area. "Pioneered" by Swiss emigrants, the Santa Clara country is flanked by the red rock canyons of, Dixie State Park, first such area to be set aside in Utah's new state park system. sys-tem. Mormon history of another kind was made at Cedar City, which was settled by English, Scotch, and South Utah Counties Urge Visits to Old, Interesting Historic Sites Five Southern Utah counties, rich in Mormon history, are expected ex-pected to prove attractive to visitors visi-tors during this area's famed Indian In-dian Summer. Latter-day Saints from Southern California, traveling i to and from Salt Lake City to at- j tend the October conference of the church, will be made especially welcome by residents of "Mormon Country" in Washington, Iron, Beaver, Bea-ver, Kane, and Garfield Counties. Straddling U. S. Highways 91 and 89, these Southern Utah counties were first crossed by Spanish missionaries, mis-sionaries, mountain men, and then wagon trains, following the Old Spanish Trail linking New Mexico and California. However, initial settlement awaited the advent of the Mormon Pioneers sent to colonize colo-nize the area by Brigham Young. As a result, communities such as Springdale, Hurricane, Orderville, and Glendale conform to a century-old century-old pattern. Sheltered by red cliffs or mountain slopes, the towns are bordered by old irrigation streams, towering cottonwood trees, or poplars. pop-lars. Homes of adobe or native sandstone sometimes follow a pattern pat-tern set by the New England ancestors an-cestors of the pioneer settlers. In most communities, a modest Mormon ward house or church structure testifies to the faith which brought the first permanent Welsh miners sent to open up the coal and iron deposits of what is now Iron County. Initial efforts at iron mining were recorded in 1851, and well-preserved and partially restored beehive coke ovens and other early industrial structures can be viewed by today's tourists 18 miles west of Cedar City within with-in view of the huge open-cut iron mines which supply raw materials to the modern furnaces of the Columbia-Geneva Steel Company. On U. S. 89, early autumn season visitors interested in Mormon history his-tory can view such communities as Qrcjeryille, the center pf an intense effort tQ live by the "United, Order," Or-der," Under it precepts, wealth was pooled, all ate at a. common table, all turned the fruits of their labor over to a common storehouse, store-house, and shared equally in the proceeds. The experiment was discontinued dis-continued shortly after 1885. ( At Kanab, true tales of the Mormon Mor-mon qountry mingle with the yarns spun by Za'ne Grey, who lived in the colorful town in 1912, while writing the famed, "Riders of the Purple Sage." In Beaver, Panguitch, St. George, Cedar. City, Kanab, and virtually every community throughout the five-county area, motels and restaurants res-taurants will make special efforts to greet visiting Mormons during the September-October period when many conference visitors are expected to travel southern Utah highways. It is noted that temperatures tempera-tures range from 65 to 75 degrees during the period, ancl foliage in scenic canyons will be at its best, Zion and Bryee National Parks and Cedar Breaks National Monument will be open with inns at both resorts re-sorts operating, |