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Show Daughetr of Famous Explorer Visits Southern Utah Traveling In a few hours through the same country that her distinguished distin-guished father Major John Wesley Powell took months to transverse, Miss Mary Dean Powell of Washington, Wash-ington, D. C. will visit by motor the gorgeous canyons of Southern Utah July 9 to 11 according to Park Superintendent Su-perintendent Paul R. Franke. After visiting the South and North Rims of the Grand Canyon, Miss Powell and her traveling companion, Miss Myrl Rhine, also of Washington, will be escourted through Bryce Canyon and Zlon National Parks by Superintendent Franke. In 1870 Major Powell, having returned re-turned from a successful trip by boat through the Grand Canyon, received a Congressional Appropriation Appropria-tion to finance a second expedition to obtain scientific data concern ing a rough and unknown region in Southern Utah and Northern Arizona. Ari-zona. Tills area, bounded on the North and West by the Green and Colorado rivers, on the East by the Wasatch Range of the Rocky Mountains Moun-tains and the Rio Virgin, and on the South and West by the mighty Colorado cutting through the Grand ' Canyon, was an arid wasteland rarely frequented by white men. Due to the hostility of the Indians, the seeming impenatrability of the steep walled canyons and the lack of water, this region was at that date, unexplored. To accomplish the task of conquering this wilderness, plans were made to devote several years time, making it necessary to have, food cached at various places along the turbulant Colorado River. Consequently Major Powell spent most of the Summer and Fall of 1870 doing this preliminary exploring, explor-ing, the entire expedition consuming consum-ing the better part of five years. Establishing a rendevous camp at the head of Kanab Creek, Major Powell began to make preparations for the trip southward. While the work proceeded the Major, as he was affectionately called by his associates, as-sociates, made side trips into what Is now Bryce Canyon National Park, at one time ascending to the top of the spectacular table cliffs which form the escarpment of the great Paunsagunt plateau. On Sep-temper Sep-temper 9th. the company crossed westward to the head of the East Fork of the Rio Virgin following this stream down what is now Long Valley dropping into Parunaweap Canyon. Sending the majority of the party around the cliffs, Major Powell Pow-ell and his two companions decided to explore the gorge on foot. Tying their provisions to rafts made from driftwood the party waded and swam for two days, finally arriving at the small Mormon town of Schunesburg. The following day the party ascended the North Fork of the Virgin River, which met below be-low the settlement, leading into Mukoontoweep (now Zlon) canyon. The Major explored this canyon to its head, returning to Schunesburg quite late at night. The company moved southward the following day traveling to Pipe Springs, Arizona, and thence to the Grand Canyon where a supply cache was left. Comfortably traveling over ex- cellent paved roads, Miss Powell and her companion will be able to Journey over a good portion of the country which her father explored. The magnificent table cliffs, climbed climb-ed by the Major and located ln Powell National Forest, are easily seen from the highway leading to Bryce Canyon National Park. Long Valley will be passed through en-route en-route and the ladies will spend several sev-eral days ln magnificent Mukoonto-weap Mukoonto-weap (Zlon) Canyon before returning return-ing to the South Rim. |