Show 4 it j VIV V X 2 fir 4 k it 0 0 1 V va ga no vol 11 z baj I 1 V 4 at J al j 4 A 1 14 lull 1 A 11 Z I 1 y IJ 1 I 11 j V V ve V e A av S ow ak ly I 1 i 4 if ju I 1 I 1 I 1 P AIN 14 w BRYCE CANYON 4 9 where the editors and people of this 4 district will spend sunday july ath and seeing 7 1 TOR SURE KES BRYCE written by ed ank beckwith of the delta le expresses ones true feel itter atter than any description we yer ver had the pleasure of read r beckwith will be hers with igors on july ath ath and eth can look for or dozens of stories te ke this after the editors re thel homes this public ches the families with tha sara cars the camping outfit that to our locality and spends uc hasing g at loia getting acquainted with we pie then going away and tell e other fellow about us our Y r and our roads the ef t tourist that does southern more lore good than fill all the six and cYl lader cars that go past us ua miles illes an hour and the best we m them Is their dust duat and a honk bonk and the horse laugh it roach them and Pan gultch garfeld county will be found my y on the spot trying to do our bast sst to malto make life comfortable i but bat tor for real hospitality and fd d friendship give us the tour oats our or grub burns burna our gas ad hunot Is ilot afraid to take hold of hand 1 I JR in an honeas lion es t td good goodness ness rand anil all ua I 1 that hoja ho as glad s that we have something from what lie he or oe she have cave aad that they will tell their a and ild they too will come att articles leles we ye receive from the capers pers of utah will was its a s 0 of people a aa well as the lows it if our own people in state ate ot of utah will boost each a 1 little more and we cau can get tle closer to each others hide id of slinging mud we will be a istir w ott off editor has led 1 beverli inches under conr in 1 th the 0 rOl following lOwing article and we a te his tell story more than worda morda bro or beckwith w we e thank the people als of our county and sure re and a road read every line of the tish mahal 1 ono no of the rosi ticul lul dungs the in the world boru Is gelt eest many s ex aeed it in size but few surpass it in beauty almost every scenic bit of nature park forest lake or other marvel surpasses braces canyon in extent but this little gem tiny in com comparison parl to others Is the most gorgeously splendid bit of nature in the state and Is truly gem of splendor incomparable braces Bry ces brycel canyon is a little amplis theatre only three miles across and about five hundred feet deep so small Is in it that one may walk around the entire rim in a forenoon or an afternoon or one may clamber down the depths and stand entranced view after view and even with such innumerable delays one may climb up the ladder and out at the other end of the path and do br easily in a day but do it more leisurely and do it more often newer and newer enchantments enchant ments will be discovered with each recurring visit jhb tn writer has been to braces canyon now five times and expects to go twice more this year and ho will then vary his trips with trips to yellowstone and california and then come back again to braces and make e other comparisons to see it with wider travel that small snatch of rare beauty still holds a foremost tore moat place in his opinion of scenic values tile the writer lias has visited a few places been way up the slope of glibert ellberta 4 peak in utah just across the wyoming line which peak has an elevation tio n of feet fee t he has been in til timber williber liber line and above it ben been up lip the slope of mt dit wheeler in nevada Is feet high han hah seen the deep span apan of tho the canadian eifle alc over ali the river at canada one of the very high railroad bridges in tile the world he has been down in the caverns of lehmans cave seen gorges peaks and ran canyons raised in ili the mountains and visited the arwa canyon of abd tbd ool lorado dorado the royal gorge and zion Vat national ional park but so far to the extent of his minor travels braces canyon la is incomparable ono one rides up red canyon where the first scenic value Is tile the turn of the road as oue eaters the pines where a deep dull red cliff meets tho the road with the sky li line nelie hs tore fore one serrated with the tumbled mass which hints what one may expect further on one then comes to L envoy envoy an n ambassador from the court cow of splendor ho he himself a oc linen of the dress dresa and fashion observed there the now road passes through first onO one tunnel and then another these two are about yards apart both give excellent photos at the proper sun and the scene is fascinating the road disappearing through a narrow red rock with the deep green of the evergreens ever greens seen through the tunnel and the hills on the opposite side thickly dotted with pines and red cliffs just on the crown of the range A saw mill Is passed soon boon where the writer had the pleasure ot of eating a meal served by a cook who had been with zane grey on one of ills his utah arizona toura fours the road is easy and soon boon one la is at braces proper ride swiftly up to the brink and stop the most gorgeous jorge gorgeous ous spectacle then lies below you never before in any place has the writer seen been such a riot of intricate form tinted so airily and aesthetically the beauty of braces canyon is not a coloring of dull pigment not dull red nor sombre sandstone huas but the most evanescent fairy like gauze of tint tilt that almost floats the most beautiful sight eight the writer has ever seen lit in braces was waa a sunrise in summer a splendor of light whick which was so reflected from highly tinted pile upon pile as to give an almost serit geml translucent gleam to pinnacle and wall between the eye and the sun it was waa most beautiful in a place to tho the east like a pioneers stockade with lookout posts and corner turrets the scene fairly gleamed it shone with radiance so delicate and so airy that one who could reproduce it in colors would bei be a master of the craft indeed that same morning an hour later in one of the deeper corners of an alcove to the northeast there tho the must most tantalizing hue which fairly tilled filled tho the space between cliff and rim so all present was waa tho the floating color it actually stood apart from the material like the haze painters film over a space to give distance ur like the drapery of colored gauze which adds adda depth and hue to al setting on the stage and those hues that morning were just after a s severe evere thunder shower ot of tho the day before when ayery thing was washed clean and bright and lavenders lavendera lav enders dresden blues bluda and just the hint of yellow held one spellbound spell bound in an ho hour and a hilt it was gone and not since has the writer been able to pick up such 1 1 N a view of doli delicacy caer reverberations of thunder the evening before tile the writer motored to the edge during a sudden and somewhat severe thunder shower water had boon been falling in sheets it lessened and suddenly a most blinding flash and an instant ter riffle staccato and then from froin the depths canio camo reverberation rev orbe ration titter after re tion as canyon titter after canyon took up tile thy sound bound carried it town down tile the sides and delivered it to tile tho ear car it seemed scented that the canyons handed it back from ono one to another deeper softer more rolling and gently fainter taintor and fainter it scenic incredible to say now but the writer believes that there were surely kuroly between thirty und mid forty echoes of that poil poal where fancy roams in III zion silon N sue see mighty walls and ono spectacular mountain tho the groat grent whito white throne Kh rono feet ili III ono single mass of rock no not two or three pieces plied piled one on oil an another anathol othol but one solid gigantic piece lit in tho the narrows you yott soo wilh as high ns as clifteen hundred I 1 tot foot meet so eliat there theio la is only I 1 room for the stream and if ono goes up tho the narrows one must to do it horseback with the willig lit in ot roain ii there Is no and fl detail etall auric ate splendid details dp talla Is what milked braces nry Bry cos ces or at the grand canyon there Is IH an immense lin mensa ditch which it took countless of ages to furrow but do 1 I tall Is s not to bo be compared with alyc nry ces brytos canyon is 18 a coin cut to exquisiteness As if a diamond had a thousands upon thousands 4 of facets each reflecting litie hue and differently placed aso so anro at 0 o tile the forms forian eroded tit in braces Bry ces it la is of soft dirt as highly co colored I 1 arec I 1 a aa s a paint mine of dirt so soft that it eroded rodo in ili the most moat fa fantastic 1 forms imaginable one can stand on oil the brink and without fore ing the tin imagination agi nation see five brothers the sentinels the doughboy guarding the throne of zeus with tile the tile the king of gods clods there on oil ruined on oil ills his throne with tho the ever wining willing bird of jove to do its his bidding and an urn of neet nectar t ar at his side the sphinx the Ethe queen elizabeth with fluted collar ancient bodice and full skirt down in the depths A cub bear an ancient castle cantle showing allowing a bombardment by cannonading canno when knights gave place to gunpowder and sancho panzie to fo a flivver these are not imaginary stretches of a fertile brain forcing a resemblance but so ao real a likeness as aa to command attention at once there la Is the acropolis ot of athens on an eminence tier upon upon tier of ghatt shattered ered ruins magnificence crumbling like the greatness of greece spen today twenty odd centuries after affer fer its pericles on the opposite 0 bank in the tar far distance Is a remarkable temple of athena in ruins a facade as aa plain as a drawing with throe corner columns yet standing marking three corners of the ancient edifice and there la Is cas tle tie where the bold and burly front do de held the lady rowena prisoner prisoner and just give the imagination ever so 0 slight a rein and one can see in fancy the remains of the 0 ancient moat over which richard of the lion heart spurred his noble charger with the black knight at his side in which reposed the ladys glove the mountain of trial the ancient persians had a belief that after death the naked soul traversed a very narrow mountain which grow grew thinner and thinner and sharper and sharper as the soul progress sd ed and the wicked soul weighted heavy with sin and debauch staggered and tell fell over the side where lapped eager flames but the righteous soul used to walking the st and narrow trudged across the edge of trial until an angel at the other side gave the weary traveler a needed lift and escorted him to the reward so well earned and that selfsame self same sharp eyed mountain Is right there in braces with yawning depths on either side and the jn ln befouled old jold reprobate who writes this set foot on that razor edge either it he be had bad hed gone agone a to hla his just deserts tales you remember when j old and worn was still struggling to attain his ideal in sculpture and wah even then in his old age engro engrossed seed with hla his status statue of the flying heri her mos mes and alb little grandson played at its hla side and watched we th 0 old mari man chip off tiny bit after tiny hit bit and rub and polish and shap ahapa it into fora fo rift and when the lad would half close his eyes ayea the tricky rod god fier hermes meso whose image the old saw man wits wag cary carving would endow ala cold stone atone with life 1111 and through ugh the veiled llda lids the lad would glimpse the least aleast move movement I 1 i but quick as ie be colleti coll could ti ia 11 ha 6 cotil dilt open ills hla eyes quick enough to catch tho the statue in tile net act and lie he boy would say bay grandpa when will you he be through and tho the old ohl mail would alpo lila brow with it a once olice brawny arni and stand oft ut it a distance for or oyer vero old mid lie ho see it well nt at close range and ot off liere ito ho would stani stand and gaze all und reply to tile tho lad when it moves and lio lie put ills his whole soul and ai id being behig into that work and nightly lid hei prayed to pallas athens athene tho the patron of the artisan to take an all old mans work an old mans of offering foring and oil oh hut but would the goddess hut but j just astr lend tier her hand to ills hla guide the chisel in its ita cut then both lie ho all and d it bould live forever it in deathless marble movement froze in stone and lie ho in undying camet famo and lie he pledged ills soul in payment for the tha boon and one night the goddess howd heald next lay day the old man mail was oil so bearyl ills his hand trembled and lie ho feared to guide the steel for lits hla being was in that ston son soni i 3 and with eyes weary of life and his lifes work done lie he nat hat with halt closed lids gazing at the statue with the little child taco face lit in hands reclining at his side and suddenly the old man startle d the lad with tho the cry it moves and fell forward lifeless at tho the toot foot of his masterpiece his soul expressed in arrested movement and the hand that carves at brycel may ho be caught at its york work may he be seen cutting with wind an and d rain snow and sleet frost and tee ice as the work goes steadily on and on using these instruments as tile tho master artisan cuts bit after bit in shaping this geni gem of splendor and adding the pigments ahl which ch allure this Is tor for believers only un believers see nothing but a tavern at tho the edge of oc a gaudily painted hole hol e which it Is fashionable to see gee and for th the e other fellow to write about FRANK BECKWITH |