Show SCENIC UTAH TO BE VIEWED t 00 30 TRIP SOUTHERN PART OF STATE PLANNED BY PARK DIRECTOR n Tribune I WASHINGTON June 3 Stephen Stephen T T. Mather director of national parks and Representative L L L. C. C Crampton I of Michigan chairman of the subcommittee subcommittee sub sub- I committee on appropriations that handies handles han dIes appropriations for the interior department will make an extended tour through the park region of southern Utah in about a month They will meet at Salt Lake June 29 and and from there go to Lund Their route carries them to Cedar City through ZI Zion n park south across the Arizona line to Pipe Springs on the route to the north rim of the Grand canyon They will then turn north through Kanab visit Bryce canyon thence to Richfield and east to Hanksville Hanks Hanks- ville yule where they will travel by pack train to the natural bridges bridel I Bluff and thence into Colorado to see aee the Mesa Verde National Park I They plan on spending about two weeks in in Utah Representative Cramp Crampton on is utilizing the summer familiarizing himself with the west and Mr Mather took advantage of I I his opportunity to to show Mr Cramp I 1 ton what Utah baa has to offer in the way of scenic attractions The visit is calculated to encourage greater liberality in CO congress toward Zion I park and the north rim highway hishway and incidentally may encourage the tho ve-Jt ve U n e national park I I Mr Mather seeing the possibility of having congress create 1 the Bryce e canyon national P pare rT is is hopeful hope the state of Utah will not make an an out out- o outright t- t right sale of its lands on the rim of Bryce Canyon to the Union Pacific J I but instead lease those lands as sands lands are leased in national parks I Should Bryce canyon become a national national na na- park the government later would have to do as al it has done in other cases cases all private I holdings I IOn I On recommendation of the secretary secretary secre secre- tary of the interior President Harding Harding Hard Hard- ing has established by proclamation the Pipe Springs national monument containing forty acres The monument monument ment was created primarily for the benefit of motorists traveling between be be- be between tween Zion National park and the north rim of the Grand canyon as it contains the only pure water along the road between Hurricane Utah and Fredonia Ariz a distance of two sixty miles i I I I I At present there are two old stone I buildings and it is planned to havethe havethe have havethe the old fort restored as it was formerly for forte I merly with a wall connecting the the two buildings I Pipe Springs is within the Kaibab Indian reservation and is involved in certain private claims It is the in intention intention In in- of spirited public-spirited citizens in Utah to recompense the present t claimants for improvements made in j order that the department of the in interior In In- tenor may take over the active administration administration ad ad- ad j ministration of t the e monument |