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Show 4 Ruminatiri & j Roundabout f ! In which Ruminator proposes ; to cream a lot, think as little as necessary, scatter a few bou- ! quets while their objectives are ! still above the sod to enjoy ! them, and fire a hot-shot now j and then while said Rumii,at- or can enjoy seeing the sparks ! fly. . Little Girl: "Mama, if God brings us all our blessings, and F. D. our relief, and Santa Claus brings us presents, what's the Uvse of having- papa hang around?" It looks very much like the Mil-ford Mil-ford Tennis club might well be subsidized by the farmers of the valley to bring a storm to the valley val-ley Just about any time .it might be desired. The disastrous storm of six years ago is said to have hit Milford while a tennis tournament tourna-ment was in progress and two weeks ago the whole western part of the state was treated to one of the best storms in months when the local tennis club undertook to play the Desert Range Experiment Experi-ment station fellows on the station sta-tion courts. The latest coincidence coinci-dence was the shower of Wednesday Wednes-day night which had to come the evening of the scheduled moon-, light dance of the club, the first stormy or even cloudy night for weeks. By alternating between the ten-nnis ten-nnis court and the Arion hall a "good time was had by all" despite de-spite the storm, Except for the poor guys to whom fell the duty of moving the piano after all the fun was over! o New homes being erected on every ev-ery hand no matter how small the village is one of the most impressive im-pressive features to be noticed in a loop tour of highways 21, 89 and 22. Such a trip was enjoyed by the News family over the week-end with an afternoon and night at Bryce canyon and side jaunts to Tropic and Escalante (two of the few communities in the state we had not theretofore visited) as pleasant additions to an altogether alto-gether enjoyable trip. mucii.- Slipping out of town before daylight day-light Saturday and returning af-' af-' ter dark Monday (which is quite a regular thing with us and not such a bad idea for us and those of equally 'shady professions) we were just in time to see so many deer along highway 21 in the Beaver Bea-ver mountains that it was useless to continue counting. The largest bunches were in the Three Creeks meadow and on Big Flat. One big monarch with a beautiful spread of horns and a group of five bucks, none with less than a three-point spread, were especially especial-ly noticeable in Big Flat, where Bud tried to make us think this or that deer was the identical one he had seen a few days previous on his forestry club trip. But enough of deer (until the season opens, when they're so darned bard to find) and something some-thing of that marvelous road from Big Flat (and the swell new ranger's cottage, and barn-garage) down to Junction. And we mean DOWN! It is an ideal piece of roadbuildiivg and to the best grade possible but there can be no mistake pf it being down as witness wit-ness the eight or nine miles of second and low gear work lots of it low for the Gnash when we returned over the same route. For Junction, tiny town capital of Piute county, the mass automobile auto-mobile traffic gained through being be-ing on a highway that is fast increasing in popularity, appears to be regaining a measure of the community importance which may have been theirs before the days of the individually owned automobile sounded the knell of the small town located anywhere near larger towns. Here in Junction were several new home." going up and all the others with nice shady yards, prolific and ,.-.,11 i , , wen-Ke-pt gardens and plenty of flowers. Courteous business peo- 1 W pie too and one of the most courageous cou-rageous newspaper women in the profession! Mrs. Eva Swanson, publisher of the Piute County News, utilizing type and equipment that she managed man-aged to gather together after a fire (with no insurance) which left her stripped of equipment of any kind, is proceeding- with the publishing of her paper under circumstances which would down most any representative of the sterner sex. More power to her! A 13-nu'le side trip over to Marysvale disclosed that once-(Centinued once-(Centinued on last paga.) Ruminatin (Continued from first page) booming little mining center to be taking on signs of rejuvenation that are most encouraging. Circleville, which you can see to excellent advantage before you drop off the mountain, also has a number of new homes underway, and a fine new grade school build- I int- that will be a credit to the i school district. Panguitch has 15 or 20 new homes under construction, several i of them quite pretentious structures struc-tures and that many or more of high class homes Only two or three years old. Bryce canyon is the jewel of Utah parks it was always and the excellent service and happy hap-py commingling of the young people peo-ple employed there several of them wellknown to us adds no' little to the complete pleasure of those who include Bryce canyon on the itinerary of any tour one makes of Utah's beauty spots. Tropic is one of the cluster of little communities nestling in the j valley below the colorful rims of ' Bryce canyon which has intrigued us every time we have iewed them from above. And we found, the short run to Tropic well worth 1 making though there were not! enough apples ripe down there to! satisfy the missus. From the well-J laden trees in almost every lot,; this little village could well de-' clare an apple day (or apple week, for that matter) anil ably take care of a large and apple-hungry crowd. Widtsoe in the community which the rehabilitation movement is supposed to erase from the map. War-time agricultural activities and a period of non-drouth yeans apparently spurred a large number num-ber of well-intentioned people to locate in this section, with the re-mult re-mult that abandoned farm houses may be spied almost any direction the eye is turned. with hardly a sign of land that is under cultivation cultiva-tion at the present time. To get to Eiscalante you cross the Table Cliff plateau and climb a hefty lot from either side to get thereon. This town is on the very edge of a great untraversed area which is partly winter stock range and mostly waste land. This great area must be crossed sometime some-time though by an east-west highway that will bring to southern sou-thern Utah direct the huge tourist traffic which now either stops at he west Colorado line or trickles through by diseouragingly roundabout round-about routes. Our determination to proceed on to the little ranching center of Boulder, non-accessible except by pack outfit until two years ago, when C C C workers f irst opened that scenic section to the automobile, automo-bile, was frustrated by the threats of the weather gods, who ordained that we should have one shower while we roasted green corn for dinner six miles out on the road and another coming up! We dc not, under any circumstances, welcome wel-come a renewal of old acquaintanceship acquaint-anceship with greasy roads, sc gave up, for the time being, what is saitl to be a trip that opens up something entirely new and grand in Utah scenery. |