Show j I t BRYCE CANYON n M ln n our article last week week touch touching Ins Mon on the fine outing o of ot the news news- per er cr men at Panguitch JC le hinted hinted I r it t tt at somo som future tim timI e t I article would be devoted to toyce toyce Canyon This task which r jy have assigned ourselves we hav have i nth h dreaded and loved loved dreaded dreaded t n ause me recognize the ina inability t r. mortal being to set forth b bi byr by byrd r rd Id of or mouth or pen or coloring i t 3 lovely delicacy In the the ji i of minute detail or the the e it t of the spectacle cle In it its ut ny moods and atmospheric ef eP ts loved ts loved It because no mortal 1 i I ose soul swells with appreciation o n r ff i on viewing the tho masterpieces o of 01 t G I gods god's of or creation handiwork l look upon Bryce Canyon with with- being deeply Inspired and once one e td tf 1 L ing seen saen this masterpiece o oure of t ij ure cannot recall It without be be- i thrilled Its splendor t ind nd just as we wo were to at at- f q pt some sort of description w we e t folded the Reflex an and d 1011 ire ro found an effort in the I tI l same sam e IIi by Editor Epperson which L I Ido m m do not hesitate to pass on i in n L of our effort f p Three ree hundred miles mUes south and liP k haps hap six miles west from Kays- Kays I tl e is that peerless gem of or all the the t J rd's Ids Canyon Just our speedometer regIst registered red three ilk 14 I died dred miles mUes a a. rod more w would lil only have brought us t o 0 the tho I h j of the road but to tho the end of tit III tit I world so far as our party was rl in the bottom of the canI can- can I ar with with its tone tene of thousands of spires minarets tow tow- tow tow-I h iJ temples pagodas mushrooms I liska and nd all ma manner of forms rui Continued on nn page 8 8 I y I iJ Bryce Canyon S s. s l from Crom page one Imaginable and previously i in red In coloring the red ranges Bryce ce Canyon and from the most vivid red rod to the most delicate shade of pink Even the thc W and creams tied and nd yellows are tinted with red So delicate d are the soft colors that at nt times the of the extravagantly antl ornate crests deeply serrated formations seem more like transparent alabaster I than like Idea the soft sandstone which It Is Bryce Canyon cannot properly proper proper- I ly b be called a canyon It is in no I l mountains sense a gorge between It has a sharply sloping floor noor which Js is crowded at all parts with eroded Canta fantastic tic shapes from afew a afew few tew feet to hundreds of feet in height Thousands of chess boards hoards J crowded with chessmen of every oven conceivable and inconceivable form would best express the appearance of or this canyon There Thero is no walor b shed into this canyon in fact all ll the tho drainage is from front the tho can canyon on All through h the vast amphitheatre hc between the groat rocks racks are beautiful ful pines of or considerable age but there is no evidence of or recent fill or stash lash at thair their base nor or did we note te any fallen any fallen Callen spires or monuments The sculptured formations formations form form- tower towel hundreds of oC fe feet t high from the floor of the canyon at v times only a few feet Ceet or a few inches from each other but there e r re no evidences of rapid erosion One can stand on the brink of this I colossal amphitheatre and imagine that it was made In a day One can imagine Ine that all the gods of the storm storm rain rain wind thunder and were summoned to create through their destructive agency this Timis mighty masterpiece of wild and weird beauty The place chosen for lor forthe forthe the mighty might demonstration of the force of tho elements was a round round- topped lopped mountain on the westerly side of a deep lep valley whore where the heart of the mountain was made mado up of red and white whit and delicately tinted sandstone sandston Tho The attack was made on the mountain b by the storm gods as they thEw had never nc attacked be be- fore All the clouds were laden with water from the surface of the great seas and at a given time 3 aril 1 the cloud fleets of the time sky floated to tho the mountain which had been selected and Jove with his bolts boIts of thunder and lightning blasted the mountain and shook water from tho the clouds as they floated against its crest The Time eastern side of r the great mountain was torn asunder for more than a thousand nd feet Ii is depth and Bryce Canyon was form form- ed Time went on and lesser storms of rain and wind assisted b by the scorching sun of summer and the time I frost kin king 00 winter continued the tha th work and as they wrought the they carved the most niost intricate to and anti delicate delicate deli deli- cate cite forms from the time so soft n. n marv- marv tinted stone As the centuries centuries centuries ies pass tho the work went wenton on and on constantly beautifying but hut never 1 fulI fully changing The Tho work was done doneas I as does docs who is putting putting put put- ting the time last delicate chiseling on hs masterpiece This masterpiece ot P of u the gods will never be finish finished ell 1 I in n detail although it was vas perhaps created in a u day and it does seem rain fair would destroy It it- it that they just as the they m made de it It-a It it-at it a its towers spires and minarets never fall they only grow more beautiful more fascinating more delicate as S the tho ages pass This Is a f idea as to the creation of Bryce's Canyon but to those who have stood on its receding receding receding re re- ceding rim and feast feasted d his eyes on its appalling beau beauty a beauty all without comparison comparison comparison its own a beauty ison it is as aB correct as an any For Forages Forages Forages ages thi this wondrous spectacle has been hidden away in the heart of the wilderness bounded by pathless pathless pathless path path- I less mountains dry can canyons ons and sun-scorched sun deserts Toda Today an almost perfect ct auto highway leads to Its brink and on last Sunday Sunda more than 1000 people parked their I c rs rs' under tho the pines which clothe 1 that part of the mountain which has not kiwi torn asunder by hy the tho mighty might forces which men now know as the o omnipotent omnipresent God There Thero is a glory to the sun and tho the moon and the stars and anti to the these e may mar be he added the glory JOl of Bryco Canyon As the years come and go millions will stand on its brink and marvel No pen willever will willever willever ever describe it no painter will ver ever portray it It is not stupendous as is tho the Grand Canyon it is tho the delicately wrought bejeweled lav- lav resting on the breast of mother e a rth I 1 |