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Show PRESS EXCURSION 1 4 WAS BJGJUCCESS Newspaper Publishers Enjoy Pleasant Outing and Are Delighted De-lighted With South. ZION CANYON AND WYLIE CAMP ARE REVELATION Semi-Tropical I mils and Luscious Melons Also Make Hit With Pencil rusher. The excursion of the Utah State Preso Association arrived in Cedar City last Saturday afternoon on schedule sched-ule time, all hough in numbers the party par-ty was considerably smaller than was originally expected. The party came in from Lund with the regular Wylie Way cars, and were the guests of ye editor for luncheon at the Cedars Hotel. Ho-tel. After resting for an hour and looking over our sanctum, the company, com-pany, which was joined by Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Wilkinson, Mr. and Mrs. LaFayette McConnell, and Photographer Photog-rapher Adams, embarked in autos and "hit the hike" for Zion Canyon. The roads were in very fair condition condi-tion and the ride was a pleasant one. The majority of the party stopped en-route en-route at the Echo Farm, only 3-8ths of a mile off the main route, and enjoyed en-joyed an excellent feast of melons, and spent a pleasant half hour in inspecting in-specting this valuable and well-kept property. Among other things, the Andersons have a large ouantity of beans under cultivation, which will ' net them a neat "piece of money" at the present war prices for beans. The last car rolled into the Wylie camp, which is just 65 miles from this city at about 8 o'clock, jur,t after the daylight had faded away, nd as soon as a hurried toilet could be made, we were summoned to the .lining room for dinner. The tables were artistically artistic-ally decorated with sunflowers and such other wild flowers and shrubbery as the locality affords. There was an air of uiet dignity, and withal of solicitude and genial cordiality about the place which made one feel that it was good to be there, and which when the appointed time for our departure came, made one loth to depart. After a refreshing night's rest in the comfortable Wylie sleeping tents, of which there arc two kinds, some arranged ar-ranged with two compartments, and some with but one, and all fitted with the excellent beds for which the Wylie service is noted, the company took an eight o'clock breakfast and at nine, mounted on horses and wagons, started start-ed out to "do" the Canyon. The view within the canyon is one of unceasing interest. The high and precipitous walls of stone rise thousands thou-sands of feet high on either side, and the variety of color and fantastic diminishing interest. In the paintings paint-ings and carvings of the rocks it takes very little imagination tt form faces, forms and other objects from life in the rocks. The first stop was made at the foot of the somewhat famous cable, which is used in lowering lumber from the plateau above to the floor of the canyon, can-yon, for the supplying of building material ma-terial to a large part of the Dixie country. Riding on the cable has been prohibited by an order from the government, gov-ernment, and besides it was Sunday and the cable was not in operation, so that no one enjoyed the thrill of a slide from the clouds, via the slender wire rope. But with the aid of field glasses one was enable to gather a jl t fair idea of what such a trip would " . mean. From the cable landing to the Weeping Weep-ing Rock, or shower bath, as it is commonly known, is but a few hundred hun-dred yards via a fairly good trail. It is a pretty spot, the cliff from which t J the water drips unceasingly or runs in tiny streams, being more than a hundred feet in length. Behind and beneath the falling water moss and (Continued on page 5.) PRESS EXCURSION WAS BIG SUCCESS (Continued from first page.) other vegetation adds to the beauty of the scene. Photographer Adams was with the party and took pictures of pretty much everything of interest and unusual beauty. Tiring of the Weeping Rock, or desiring de-siring to hurry on and see the remainder remain-der of the canyon, the party remounted remount-ed the horses and vehicles, and proceeded pro-ceeded on up the canyon for three or four miles further, some with horses going as far as the narrows, where the waters of this fork of the Virgen River covers the entie floor of the forge, All the way the scene is a most impressive and awe-inspiring one and the members of the party were constantly discovering new faces and figures in the rocks. Ye editor is not naturally very imaginative, but we claim the honor of discovering the "Black Dutchess," who is a diminua-tive diminua-tive little figure reaching about 1500 feet up the cliff, in a sitting posture. Were she to stand upright at this point it is probable that she would have to find a new setting, or her head would rise above the crest of the rock. Her figure is that of a rather stylish lady, but her face is dark and distorted dis-torted to such an extent as to be quite repulsive. She is visible half a nii'c to a mile above the cable, on the Wttft side of the canyon. Look for her next time you go through the canyon. Many figures and fantastic forms were discovered or were pointed out to us by our guide. But the thing of most compelling interest was the pro. digious size and majesty o the cli.fs themselves, with the sharp contrast in the colorings. We arrived at the Wylie camp again for a 2 o'clock lunch, thoroughly tiled and in a condition to do fu1! justice to the tempting viands servod. Lunch over the company repaired to the Wylie retreat, or summer rest garden, a few hundred yards above the camp, where there is a delightful little water fall, with an abundance of beautiful white sand, moss and grass, in a pretty little cove, just large enough for a lounging room. Here the remainder of the afternoon was spent in playing cards, lounging, con-versatin, con-versatin, etc. This retreat is especially popular and pleasant on warm afternoons, and is a feature of the camp that "Polly-ann" "Polly-ann" failed to tell us of. After an evening about the bonfire bon-fire and another refreshing sleep, the company partook of a 7:15 breakfast, preparatory to starting home again. The trip was made without important incident. On their arrival here the scribes were made the guests of the Cedar City Commercial club at an informal luncheon in the dining room of the Cedars Hotel, remarks at the close of the meal being made by Prof. R. F. Homer, Ex-Senator Lunt, Dr. M. .1. Macfarlane and Mr. J. E. Jones, manager of the Western Newspaper Union, Salt Lake Branch. On the return trip a stop was made at Toquerville for fruit and melons, and the "tender-feet" of the party were initiated into the pleasures of the prickly pear apple, and tre sand-bur, sand-bur, which are natives of the Dixie country. The visitors were strongly urged to remain over a day here and visit the points of interest including the B. A. C. buildings and the mounds being excavated ex-cavated in the vicinity of Paragonah, but felt too strongly the press of business bus-iness at home, and hastened on to Lund to catch the 6:00 p. m. train. We believe that, the members returned re-turned home with a better and bigger opinion of not only the Canyon, but of all southern Utah than they came here with, and wc hope to be favored with I their presence, in greater numbers, at some time in the not distant future. |