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Show and more and more Utah communities com-munities will prosper. Establishment of a state parks system will greatly aid in making mak-ing our attractions known outside out-side our own state, and in making mak-ing the visiting of them more enjoyable to tourists. We now have two national parks, eight national monuments and seven national forests, all justly famed across the nation and often their fame has spread around the world. Yet many people people in a position to know feel that we 'have an abundance of little known scenic attractions fuHy equal to those that have "national" "na-tional" status. 'When Dead Horse Point and the Land of Standing Men, to name just two of our falbulous "unknown" scenic resources, re-sources, are as well known as Zion and Bryce, our tourist business busi-ness should increase materially. As the new Parks and Recreation Recre-ation Commission goes about buildtimg its program, some important im-portant facts in connection with it should he understood by Utah citizens. Among them are: .The comimission is operating on very limited funds, and a practical way must he found to finance a system of state parks. While the state will undoubtedly undoubt-edly provide some financial he?p in setting up sta-te parks, at least in the initial stage, the needs of the parks program must obviously obvious-ly 'be 'balanced against other demands de-mands on state funds and against again-st the state's financial ability. State parks, unlike national parks, will be built on a theory of reasonable multiple use, and not on the National Parks theory of complete withdrawal from the development of natural resources and other normal and beneficial uses. In other words, we can build cur future without at the same time destroying any part of it. Fur buyers indicated that private pri-vate beaver trappers an Utah would receive best .prices from beaver trapped between December Decem-ber 1 and February 15. Utah's current open season on beaver ends on April 30, 1958. All monies received from fur sales are returned to the fish and game fund. In answer to recent inquiries from rabbit hunters concerning the status of state game preserves, preserv-es, fish aind .game department spokesmen today announced that only five such areas now exist in the state. The five areas were (listed as J the Cache, the immediate dradn-jage dradn-jage into Fish Lake, the Salt iLake, the Monestary and the Heaston. Only one of these, the Heaston, lies in the popular rabbit hunting area of Tooele County. Previous Tooele County preserves, pre-serves, in the Willow Creek and Vernon areas, have been ebol-I ebol-I ished. At the time of abolition of these two preserves the Heaston Heas-ton was also reduced in size to about half its previous area. Present boundaries of the , Heaston are as follows: Beginning Begin-ning on U. S. 'Route 40 as it in- tersects with the Tooele County line eiost to the town of Garfield; I from Garfield the boundary runs ' south, roughly corresponding I with the highway througih Bacchus Bac-chus and Lark, to the division between Rose and Butterfield j Canyon.s. The boundary then ; faloJws the ridge line between' these canyons to Mount Butter- j field and continues on the ridge ( line to an intersection with the : drainage into Soldier Canyon, j From this point the boundary runs west to the highway, then north through Tooele and back to the beginning point. With this increase of open hunting grounds department spokesmen were quick to caution bunny shooters that a large percentage per-centage of the lands in Tooele County are privately owned. As always, before hunting on such lands, permission of the owner should be obtained. A REPORT FROM YOUR GOVERNOR Gift of the historic Carson Hotel Ho-tel at Fairfield to the Utah Parks and Recreation Commission last week turned the spotlight on a new agency of state government that will play a big role in Utah's future development. The Parks and Recreation Commission, set up by the 1957 Legislature, is quietly going a-bout a-bout the business of outlining a lor.g-range program. For the most part, its activities are in the nlanning stage, but eventual results are going to mean a great deal to every part of the state. As we all know, Utah has some of the most magnificent scenic attractions THE most magnificent magnifi-cent scenic attractions, every loyal Utahn believes in the world. And yet, in 1955, we ranked forty-third among the 48 states in tourist income. Many states without a fraction of our natural attractions are receiving a larger share of the tourist dollar dol-lar than we are and the tourist tour-ist business in the United States right r.ow is very big business, about double the size (in annual cash returns) of the entire U. S. automotive industry. It obviously will be to our advantage to make our scenic, historic and recreational recrea-tional advantages better and more widely known. If. we do so, more and more tourists will benefit ben-efit from the wholesome vacation vaca-tion attractions we have to offer |