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Show CEDAR CITY'S TOURIST CAMP , IS ADVERTISED Agricultural College at Logan Sends Following Press Notice to All State Papers: Cedar City is going to capitalize its nearness to Zion National Park and make a bid for the thousands of tourists who will visit that wonderland wonder-land tho coming season, according to Mr. Emil Hansen landscape archi tect of the Utah Agricultural College. Mr. Hansen has just returned from Cedar City where ho went to lay out a municipal park and camping ground designed especially to accomodate tho touring public. The new park and camping ground will be put into shapo immediately. It will bo located right in tho center of town nnd will havo several features that should appeal particularly to tho tourist. Summer tent homes, surrounded sur-rounded by trees and each supplied with latticed summer house, will bo available. These tentB will be provided pro-vided with lights nnd stoves for cooking. cook-ing. Bath houses with showers aro planned ns is a large auto washing station. Four modern tennis courts will also be provided. Adjoining the camping grounds will bo the city park. This will con-sist( con-sist( of paths radiating from n common com-mon center where tho band stand will be located. Spending lawns dotted with evergreens nnd hardwood trees will- make this a park of singulnr beauJtjf. Tho citizens of Cedar City aro also building a modern tourist's hotel for those who nro not prepared to camp out. Zion Canyon is just three hours beyond Cedar City, nnd the people rightly feel thnt they must mako nmple preparations to mako the tourist's trip to the ennyon most enjoyable. en-joyable. Mr. Hansen is giving his services to Ccdnr City ns part of tho ambitious plan of the Utnh Agricultural College to beautify tho state by beautifying pnrks, play grounds, and the surroundings sur-roundings of public buildings. Mr. Hnnson has also planned tho grounds for the1 Branch Agricultural College at Cedar City. His activities havo taken him into every community of Utnh nnd southern Idaho. |