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Show "See Southern Utah and Live" i Associated Civic Clubs Issue Description of Beauties of Southern Utah All aboard for Los Angeles. Centuries Cen-turies ago a well known epigram advised ad-vised the world to "see Carthage and Hie." Or was it Rome? Or Greece? No matter our modern epigram gives better advice by telling the world to "see Southern Utah and Live." Utah? Oh yes, the Western State with one corner cut squarely out, but so jammed full of beautiful and wonderful won-derful things that a corner chipped out is missed hardly at all. From North to South, Utah is interesting, but no where in the wide world can one find in so small an area such charm, such beauty, such unsurpassed unsurpass-ed magfiificience as has been strewn with lavish hands in Southern Utah, making it a veritable wonderland of ever changing scenery. Two Highways High-ways U. S. 91 and U. S. 89 take you into the heart of this wonderland. Leaving Thistle, Utah by U. S. 89 a highway of unbelievable fantasy and coloring leads you first into the embraces of San Pete county where one may visit the sheep ranches, famous fa-mous from Argentineto, Russia, from Japan to Australia for its unexcelled Rambouilett sheep. A few miles south at Manti, silhouted against the green of the hills, rises in simple dig- nity one of the temples for which Utah and the "Mormons" are known the world over. You just must pause to climb the many steps to view the checkerboard beauty of well regulated regulat-ed cities and farm land stretching in all directions to meet the blue distant mountains which hold San Pete County in its close embrace. Con-! Con-! tinuing south, the gray and tan hill sides give place to the reds and oranges, or-anges, the trade mark colors of southern Utah; one cannot help but feel a genuine surprise to see clear bright green fields springing from a vermillion soil. Red Mound rises from the valley hurled there after being torn wrathfully from the hillside hill-side by an angry God. Behind the Mound the hillside shows "the deep crimson stains which tell eternally of the sad bleeding away of the hearts blood of the mountain for the lost mound." Can you afford not to see it? On a few miles, a mere slip from the highway, by Lions Trail built by the Salina Lions club, you turn to Fish Lake, the paradise for fisherman, fisher-man, 9000 feet above sea level. In this natural lake several miles long and a mile wide, in ice cold waters Eastern Brook J&nd Rainbow Itrout flash and play in waters so blue that one hardly knows where the lake ends and the heavens begin. A beautiful beau-tiful lodge and many cabins make the visit here enjoyable and never to be forgotten. One of natures most marvelous works is' her natural bridges in San Juan and Wayne, two Southern Utah counties have an uneualed number of large bridges. There one may see the graceful Edwin Bridge, oldest and nost perfect formed, with a span of 194 feet and a height of 108 feet, and Agusta Bridge with a span of 2G1 feet and a height of 22 feet and a thickness of 50 feet. The Rainbow natural bridge is the highest in the world with a span of 278 feet. Fruita or Hickman bridge with a span of 1G2 feet and a height of 96 feet. If the depression has got you, stand here on the colorful bridge and realize real-ize how fleeting-depressions are compared com-pared with the age old phenonenon. Near the bridges are cliff dwellings, centuries old, perched almost inaces-sable inaces-sable on the steep cliff sides. Enter and you may be lucky enough to pick up an arrow head or bit of pottery used by the ancient tribes of Indians who dwelt here. A few hours drive and you are in the heart of Earth's most magnificent scenery. Within a radius of a hundred hund-red miles or so, the sublime coloring of Zion Canyon, the spectacular wonders of Bryce Canyon, the majestic ma-jestic beauty of Grand Canyon, the colorful expanse of Cedar Breaks are yours for the looking. Bryce Canyon, Can-yon, resplendent in flaming scarlet and gold, staggers on at first sight and then calls one to linger a little longer to learn of the canyon's moods which the changing lights of day or night bring to it. Chisled with infinite infin-ite care it is Utah's jewel box, whose gems are carved with the exquisite care of the rarest cameo. Nowhere in all the world can be found Kaloid-scopic Kaloid-scopic coloring never to be forgotten Zions National Park, coloring ranging rang-ing from browns and vermillions to purples and pinks to climax themselves them-selves in virgin whiteness of the Great White Throne. One should never nev-er try to describe the changeless, yet ever changing, Grand Canyon, but one should never leave the West without having stood on the rim of that "awe-full" canyon trying to mir- ror indeliably in his soul the immensity immen-sity of that flaming abyss. A visit to the sun-kissed, snow cooled Cedar Breaks and the circle of Utah's unique uni-que Southern Canyons is completed. Two -wonders more seem to have been tucked in as if for good measure. meas-ure. Only a few miles from Zion Canyon the famous Mt. Carmel Highway High-way 'begins to ascend. Through a mile of solid rock this road climbs upward, six windows opening at intervals in-tervals to afford a view of the valley and canyon below. Truly this most spectacular feat of engineering is worth traveling across the continent to know first hand. The forty-mile drive through the shady aisle of the Kiabab Forest, that 800,000 acres of trees surely was designed to repose and quite in to the travelers soul that that it might be ready for the stupendous stup-endous view of Grand Canyon. In this mighty forest, and nowhere else, the white tailed squirrel is found, and great herds of deer along the way tantalizingly near but safely far. So many wonder belong to southern south-ern Utah that one hardly knows how to stop telling of them. Would any one beleive that Utah's roads are built upon untold wealth? Just take U. S. 50 in Carbon County and you will find yourself in the vast coal fields there, riding over millions of dollars; you may stop and view the coal fields and realize in a small way the immensity of the deposits. Enough coal is under your feet to supply the United States for fifty years. If you are tired of traveling, steal away from the hurry for a peaeefull day at Puffer Lake, easily accessible fromj Beaver City. Whether Wheth-er you like to fish or not you will fall in love with Puffers. Puffers lake is a jewel in a magnificent setting of aspens, pines and snow capped peaks. By all means don't over look Utah's Lehaman's caves a stones throw from Milford, Utah. Centuries ago, nature na-ture exerted all her efforts to produce for us one more wonder. Any list of Utah's wonders would be sadly incomplete in-complete if the fossil beds of Emery county were ommitted. To the serious ser-ious scientific minded, what could be greater joy than to stand actually viewing with ones own eyes the rest-ingplace rest-ingplace of dinoasures of centuries ago, once so terrible, now only a sign of that stupendousness of that age. Don't forget Emery county's famous dionasuers. Just one thing more our inland California Utah's Dixie almonds, al-monds, and figs, and grapes are growing there for you in that thriving thriv-ing county. If any one finds himself experiencing some pf the discomforts of changing altitude,' drop into St. George and be slightly above sea level. le-vel. See Beautiful Snow Canyon, but why say more? |