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Show HOTEL TO RISE '! I on cedar ens 1 Cedar,, City Hotel Company Sends !H Committee to Choose Site H For Projected Inn. H H ALL SCENIC POINTS . H COVERED BY SURVEY Camp Pitched at Beautiful Navajo H Lake, Destined to Become the , H Location of Cedar City's Sum- H mer Home and Tourist' Colony. H What may prove to bo a very im- portant step in the development cJE H the Cedar Breaks Region as a tourist H playground was the trip last week H of representatives of the dircctorato H of tho Cedar City Hotel Company H along the Cedar Breaks to select a M suitablo site for a big summer hotel. W. II. Leigh and E. M. Corry mado H the trip for the hotel company and H wero accompanied by Forest Super- H visor iW. M. Mace and wife, and Mes- H srs T. J. Jones, Lchi M. Jonc.i and -H Chris. Ashdown, who went for the purpose of inspecting a strip of tim- ' H bcr soon to be offered for sale by H the forest service. This timber, H which is nil spruce, was found to bo H of good quality and comparatively H easy to get at. H Tho party made their camp at " M Duck Lake, or more appropriately, H Navajo Lake, from which site expo- H ditions in different directions covered H the territory under inspection. H Ono excellent hotel Bite was found 'H at tho north end of the Break?, and H nnother at about tho middle section. ''1 The general opinion of tho party was H that Navajo Lake, where they were-' H camped, is tho place for Codnr'a f"'""iH summer colony, and that r.ol many ' ' "'1 years will pass before Ideal summer kH homos dot tho beautiful shores of H that sheet of water. Tho only acci-- H dent thnt occurred on what was otlw H crwise a wholly enchanting pleasure H pilgrimage was the loss of a valuablo H saddle horso on the return trip. Tho H animal fell off the trail at a point M not far above where the steam shovel M is now working, and did not long sun' H vivc the tumble. M Tho Lowder Ranger station was visited and it was found thnt In tho'' H recent rain storm 1.3G inches of rain ' H fell in n 30 hour period. The rainy ' M Benson began just in timejp save tho H range from drying up.J,"""Thc forage. H was beginning to show the effects of M hot, dry weather, although the stock H all looked fine. H In summing up his impressions, H Supervisor Mace called the excursion H a "real trip" and tho sentiment was M echoed enthusiastically by the other H members of the party. A member of H the party stated that the trip had M opened his eyes to a vast number of H scenic wonders among tho Cedar H Breaks with which he. had thought M himself thoroughly familiar for years. M |