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Phone Wasateh 5409 S11-12-- 1S SCENIC HIGHWA Y r )li( ub c iin jm Nowhere in the world is there a duplicate of the Scenic ighway of America, which begins at Yellowstone Park just irth of this state and ends with the Grand Canyon of the Colo-d- o in southern Utah, where is located Zion and Bryce canyons, (withstanding the stupendous geographical and geologic ractures of deep gorges, precipitous and craggy walls topped ith numerous spires, etc., we find the Union Pacific system rail- iy tracks built into the very heart of these scene wonders and . ; . spared to handle unlimited tourists on their vacation jaunts. Yellowstone Park is a big cauldron in which broken moun-in- s are piled up in confusion, spouting geysers and hot lakes streams, rumblings under the earth and hisses from a thou-n- d vents, mud geysers from which emanate all colors and d huge paint pots, mountains of glass, sulphur and a forest, are all there a combination of grandeur which no an lias yet been successful in describing. Yellowstone is vast, tc ild, unspoiled, a masterpiece of the primitive set aside in the stensses of the Rocky Mountains. It has lofty peaks, immense kes, majestic rivers, wild flowers in profusion, forests living id fossil, glaciers at its border, and a multitude of wild ani-alsome of which have become extinct in all other parts of the nntrv. At certain times of the dav when the sun hits this won- f rland at a certain angle and all the beauty is brought out, one n only imagine they are in fairyland. The view puts the spec-to- r into a trance, and it is more like a dream than a reality. The gateway ofthe Union Pacific is at West Yellowstone, at kich point the great and magnificent scenic wonders commence, stage coach then takes the tourist into a scenic gulf from ireh one fll emerges bewildered with natures beauty. There is other place in the world like it; it is the natural home of the to. The grizzly and black bear abound. The black bear is a tural pet and is as tame as a dog. It is not an uncommon sight see some adventurous tourist feeding a big bear that eats out your hand. While the grizzly is more shy, and much more focious, it is occasionally seen coming to the camp dumps about H sk to eat. When the grizzly shows up at the dumps, the black scampers off into the timber with fright. Elk, deer and the ?on are numerous and the tourist lias much pleasure in taking fores. The person who sees the. great Yellowstone park must e it again. The park officially opens tomorrow. D. S. Spencer, general Wenger agent of the Union Pacific system, announces that one V ccial train out of here carried over 400 tourists for the open-?- ! and from now on the tourist travel over the road will be I Hunting is not allowed in the park and all wild animals id re-mb- le pet-fie- s, tie T k 10 heavy. Those who like fishing, will find Yellowstone Park a mecca jail species of trout can be taken. It is a natural home of the t the rainbowr, eastern brook, dolly varden, Loch T 0 j trout, and grayling. No one needs a license to fish in the rk. E t S f IP r Jr i K The Great Falls of the Yellowstone River is one of the grandest spectacles of natures freaks on earth. A huge body of water plunges 308 feet to a rocky river bed below, and then winds its way down a deep gorge, some 1,200 feet deep, which gorge is about 2,000 feet wide at the top and narrows down to about 200 feet at the bottom... The sides and slopes, where only here and there it is possible to descend are made up of the most gorgeous patterns of color, resembling the rainbow. A stairway leads to the bottom of the falls where its beauty and vastness can be closely inspected, as well as providing a dandy fishing hole where many tourists are able to catch the beautiful trout When Rudyard Kipling first saw the falls, he wrote of his experience: Without warning or preparation, I looked into a gulf 1,700 feet deep, with eagles, and fishhawks circling far below. And the sides of that gulf were one wild welter of color crimson, emerald, cobalt, ochre, amber, honey splashed with port wine, snow-whitvermilion, lemon, and silver gray in wide washes. So far below that no sound of strife could reach us, the Yellowstone River ran, a finger-wid- e strip of jade green... The took those wondrous walls and gave fresh hues to those that naturesunlight had already laid there. Picture by J. E. Haynes. 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