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Show Governor Bern I Praises Soot hern ! Utah Scenery! i ! : Scenery, in the opinion of Governor Gover-nor George H. Dern, just back from a week spent among the beauty spots of southern Utah, is the greatest natural na-tural resources of Utah. Development of this resource haj been . umewhat neglected In the past but has been initiated in the pas few years, the governor pointed out yesterday. The two great necessities in the ue velopment of this resource are good roads to the points of scenic interest and suitable accommodations for the visitor when he gets there. Whiiu there is still much to be done. Governor Gov-ernor Dern found on his visit a good road practically all the way from! Salt Lake to Zion National park over ov-er the Zion Park highway, and another ano-ther most of the way back from Ha-nab Ha-nab to Salt Lake over the Granu Canyon highway. He foundl that the accommodations problem has becii worked out satisfactorily at Ziou and at Bryce. At the latter a large force of men la at work, and it i promised that the lodge center will be completed and the lodges themselves them-selves built by the opening of the season at Bryce on June 1. The governor was earnestly invited invit-ed to be present at a celebration a.c Panguitch, on the occasion of th,. completion of Bryce and Its opening open-ing to the public. He could1 not say yesterday whether he would be abl to accept the Invitation or not, but he expressed himself as thoroughly In sympathy with the spirit of ttiv occasion and aware of Its Importance. "We often talk about the need in i Utah of outside capital. I don't know of any better way to get outside capital cap-ital here than through the develop- ment of our scenic resources." The governor is now one of tnu few persons in Utah who have seen the wonders of Zion canyon from the floor and from each of the rims. He also has made various side trlpi-. in the national park, which few per sons have made. Following his visi, in tie canyon, on the occasion of its opening, and his conference on roao matters with Governor J. G. Scrug ham of Nevada, Governor Dern left the park Sunday, traveling on horseback horse-back over the location of the proposed pro-posed road from Rockville to Big Plains, in the construction of which state aid is to be used this summer. This will shorten the distance Di road) from Zion National park to Ka-nab Ka-nab or the Grand Canyon north rim by about thirty miles. Meeting tnu automobiles near Short creek, thu governor and the state road commission commis-sion spent Sunday evening at KanaD, I where they witnessed the sustaining of Heber J. Meeks to succeed W. W. Seegmiller as stake president. The latter, who was a candidate befoiu ' the Republican state convention last .' fall for nomination has gone temporarily tempor-arily to Pheonix, Ariz, i Kane county has many unexploit- i ed wonders of its own, and Mondav. j morning Mr. Meeks, County Clerk; Delo.s R. McAllister and Mr. Heaton) conducted the governor to the Cavul lakes, not, far from the Kanab- Mt. UarniPl road. A program of development develop-ment here, he was told, would carry car-ry a road over to Cottonwood can yon and open up an area unusually rich in cliff dweller relics. Many Indian In-dian relics are in the hands of interested in-terested collectors in Kanab, and Royal Sapp, an auburn haired young ster of that region, eagerly urged upon the governor one of the most perfect ever seen. He was glad to accept ac-cept the gift, the best in the boy's ! collection. Informal, hearty and bounteous receptions were arranged for the gov ernor at Orderville and Glendale, tnb latter community boasting of a ladies' brass band that would do 1! ln-n trtlTfn TtTrtt,. CietlH LU 3. LUUCU Ittl&ci lunu. a,. v.. day was spent at Bryce and Tuesday the governor gained some first-hand knowledge of the road problem oi 'he "Tropic dump" before starting for Salt Lake, which he reached on Tuesday night. Tribune. : |