| Show B r f Journalists Description O V i Of fU Ut alls Dixie i Land To tho the Editor I Schneider Is on one e etor I The Tho writer Adolph Ado ph wV try nI are HO man ma maIng tor of or the tile four Journalists jc ing Ins a n tour of oC the world In ha the Inter inters t tu ui u scientific research r carch Investigating oJ J Conn condl commercial and nn 1 Industrial customs of oC tho the tons habits and etc The ont peoples etc ct Or Orono Orton C are arc arc Salvie Salo ei of o the lh patty who Is lep ec CP at of France ton ono S a n e the Site leerier Courier do Franc a IC former form Paris PAr I r or ot Kome doto do t tor Iy jy of or the University of oC philosophy and literature who 5 s that Institution mi md u gathering data Cor for also diso representing La Tribuna of oC Romand Romo Rom the tho American o otho or ortho and Albert c tho the party a Harvard tho New York Tok American Nine different languages are spoke 9 by the thc combined patty party the tho writer write several The party left New No Newyork York Oct 7 1509 and traveled to PIttsburg Pa where we are separated 1 two members covering tho thu United States tho the oth part rt of oC the two tho the writer and Prof ProC 1 co separating ai at t tho northern part Denver Colo where the time writer stay star stayed conditions In Iii that thai t w cd ed to investigate t tc to state while his companion Alaska The entire party parly will wall ea at ot Los Angeles Cal Col and anal am pro plO proceed coed eced thence to Honolulu the Philip Philli Philippines Phillipines China r n Japan Corea pines Slam India Afghanistan Tut ruI Asia Minot Minor Arabia tan Persia perilla Turkey the Balkan peninsula Austria Italy France Francc Germs any and l Gita Gt at Britain Tho The entire trip covering title line Be ire Besides five fie years continents will occupy sides writing magazine ma articles their observations to several magi results C CI the tho J and intI newspapers lIew shies nines I s i their Investigations will be he publish 11 1 I In four different Ian IanI book form Corm In i of oC o be vast store which will wilt a I concerning tit no he valuable Information actual conditions In these several coun countries countries j tries as aJ they th are arc today toc the where I r spent I 1 While In Utah months of oC November antI and December I 1909 I was Induced by Gov William what Is known know visit to to a Spry pay visit I Dixie the extreme southwest south southwest us Ii west portion of oC the tho state This part partI par much lower than the tho rest res of oC Utah lies the state the altitude at St George Georgej Geor e eI I of or county count countI j I the tho county seat Beat of oC Washington than 1600 1000 foot feet lower being 2800 2600 feet or Leaving the railroad t tI tat the state slate capital i I I at Modena on the tho Salt Lake Route the 1 nearest railroad point to St George GCOrge Georgea a n stage line takes the traveler tr veler over owe overa owea rough mountain road 65 miles to St StGeorge StGeorge StGeorge a n I George The Journey down Is through a n desert country which at Severn several places en route shows that subterranean subterranean in it forces have hae been at nt work tho the past ages leaving as ns monuments monument of oC their destructive agency gene numerous i extinct volcanoes and ridges es of oC lava lavaI ii which with the wonderful freaks of oC I erosion produced by time on the tho red sandstone formation ot of the country forms interesting breaks in a Journey journo that would otherwise ho bo monotonous WONDERFUL CLIMATE CLI ATE Arriving near St George Georgo a 0 wonder wondel wonderful ful Cut change is noticed In ht the climate Tho The sun shines more brightly and with more power and glimpses of oC the tho pret pretty pretty ty t little city are arc occasionally seen between breaks In the red sandstone and lava IDva ridges that bound tho thu valley At last wo we reach roach St George a de delightful delightful delightful little city of oC 1800 1600 inhabitants which was first settled by bt a 0 band of uC Mormon pioneers sent there by tho the great Mormon loader leader President Brig Brigham Brigham ham Young in its 1861 1561 Although it is tho the middle of oC December rosebushes olean oleanders oleanders oleanders ders and other shrubs still sUU have their leaves on them and bouquets of oC chrysanthemums chrys chrysanthemums plucked out of oC doors adorn the tables of or the tho hotels A feature that strikes the stranger most in this beautiful little valley is the tho Quiet happy and amI contented life liCe led by bytho bythe the tho Inhabitants No o saloons are al at allowed towed lowed to exist here but instead is a splendid school system that tends to elevate the tho young ng minds and make of ot them a most desirable class of oC citizens The Time Mormon system of oC cooperation Is here evident In n a very marked de degree degree degree gree and one can not but give sive credit to a system that made gardens gordens of oC the desert made happy homes and built up p cities cilles and villages where the stran stranger stranger stranger ger is made to feel at nt home and re received received In a broadminded manner that sots his mind at rest After 15 months spent in traveling over nearly every ever state tate In the Union I was exceedingly pleased with tho the high standard of or life liCe that exists among the tho Mormon people who are usually considered ered a peculiar peculia people poop Ie I am not a Mormon and had hadI heard but little of oC them until my mv ad advent ado adE o E vent Into Utah Since I have visited I amongst them and studied their modes r I of life lite and their high ideals I am nm forced to the tho conclusion that they are areas areas I as well vell along the thc road to the universal I brotherhood as any people I have mol met mm I anywhere So much for tor the people New Mow to return to St George and anil an Dixie While St SU George Is to I the chit chief town In Dixie yet t It was vas slot the tin settled The first settlers tame came I in It Dixie In 1857 1651 settling at various places place higher up the river and at Santa Clara Clan Claraa Clana live lit a n town on the Santa Clara creek miles west of or St George now Inhabited by s people who wit are arc noted for their thrift and end energy ener SUNSHINE ABUNDANT DU DANT The Tho people of oC Dixie DIde claim over 30 days of oC cleat clear bright sunshine during Burin each year and I 1 can well bellow their thel claim to be bo well neil founded for while It IL I Iwas was winter inter when I was there a n cloudiest sky prevailed during that the time lime and the sun shone with remarkable remark remarkable able clearness It Is owing to this great grey amount of or sunshine and nd the tho short win winten tent ten added to the extreme dryness ot or o tho 1111 long lonh summer that the fruit grown growl In lu Dixie has been acknowledged by py ex cx experts experts as ns better than that of oC other oth r places being of n a more delicious flavor Four our crops cf of fig are arc grown Irown each ich year poaches J grapes almonds pomegranates ales ates English En walnuts und and other sub subtropical subtropical tropical and temperate zone fruits arc air groin Live five e crops of oC alfalfa n arc are grown each ca h year and cotton cOlton was grown for a 1 number of 01 years and worked Into cotton materials at a n local loe l mill Fruit growing however has ho not been en engaged engaged In to any great extent com commercially owing to distance from Crom mar ma markets marketa keta and the difficulties of oC transportation tion This Is now about to be changed for SL a railroad l is protected projected through the county count that will leave the Salt Lake Luke Route noute at Lund and run southerly over oer the plateau to the tho Grand Can Canyon Canon yon cen on of oC tho the Colorado river the grandest and most sublime scenery lc In the world so o pronounced by MaJ Powell In his investigations for the United States geological survey On the plateau Is an Im Immense immense Immens mense mens body bod of oC timber mostly yellow yellowpine yellowpine pine Ine estimated by the government ex cx expert expert pert lumbermen It t Is on a national forest forst for est st reserve to contain upwards of ot four Cour billion feet of oC timber ready for the saw Immediately available This timber Is tho he objective point of oC the railroad and tho ho scenic portion of oC the Grand canton can cnn canyon yon ton which Is here hero at Its best will draw many nany thousands of oC tourists annually One ne however does docs not have hoc to go as asfar asar far ar as the tho Grand canyon to see sub sublime sublime lime Ime scenery for Cor about 38 36 miles cast of St it George Is the eap canon can canyon canyon yon on of the Virgin river of oC which MaJ Ma Powell of oC the United States St geological survey urvey says In Its proportions It ft Is bout equal to Yosemite but In tho nobility and beauty of oC tho the sculptures there here is no comparison The amount of ground under ler cultivation lon tion In n Dixie Is 15 not great Two reasons canons may be given glen for Cor this first be because because I cause ause the early settlers only cultivated that hat ground that could be easily irrl Irrigated Irrigated I gated great groat root expense being necessary to o bring large areas under cultivation and nd secondly the lack of oC markets and difficulties of transportation Now however that a railroad is lB promised extensive Irrigation schemes sch mes arc are pro projected projected one of oC acres and another of or f acres The water for tot those projects will be taken from from the Virgin river Iver and ant the lands lie in the eastern and nd southern oC the county AUTOMOBILE STAGE ROUTE Mention was made In the fore Core part of f this article of oC the rough Tough mountain road sad over ov r which it was necessary to travel ravel In n order to reach rench Dixie In less than tan three months about March 1 I 1910 a tine automobile road will be in opera operation tion on between St George and Acoma on onlie the lie Salt Lake take Route a n distance of oC 56 66 6 miles isles which will wilt enable travelers to rover cover tho the distance in about three or tour four our hours While le I was In St Georgo George the he amount of oC money necessary to moke flake this road fit for automobile travel ravel was subscribed Kenneth C Cerr Kerr err the general passenger agent of oC the he Salt Satt Lake Route at Salt Lake Uke City with whom I became acquainted while there here says of oC this Acoma road that its It Itis ItIs is s the finest mountain road he has hns seen that hat only needed some work on the tho St Georgo G end to make It a perfect auto automobile automobile mobile road roul This road rood will be a scenic one ae and will be the means of or bringing In a largo large number of visitors to wonderful Dixie D the land ot of sunshine |
