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Show IIS UTAH TOWN IS! WTO WELCOME TOURIST IN STYLE Cedar City is going to capitalize U.s nearness to Zion national park and make a bid for the thousands of tcir ists who will v',3it that wonderland the coming season, according to Emil Hansen, landscape architect of the Utah Agricultural college. Mr. Hun sen has just returned from Cedar Ci y where he went to lay out a municipal park and camping ground, designed especially to accommodate the tourln?. public. The new park and camping ground will be put into shape immediately. Ii will bo located right in the center of the town and will have several features fea-tures that should appeal particularly to the tourist. Summer lent homes, surrounded by trees and each supplied with v. latticed summer house, will be available. These tents will be provided pro-vided with lights and stoves for cooking. cook-ing. Bath houses with showers aro planned as is a large auto washing station. sta-tion. Four modern tenni3 courts will also bo provided. Adjoining the enmping grounds will 1 be the city park. This will consist ! of paths radiating from a common cen-I cen-I ter where the band stand will be lo 1 catcd. Spreading lawns dotted villi I evergreens and hardwood trees will , make this a park of singular beauty, j Tlie citizens of Cedar City are also j building a modern tourists' hotel for ' those who are not prepared to camp out. Zion Canyon is just three hours beyond Cedar, and the people rightly ; feel that they must make ample prep-i prep-i arations to make the tourists' trip to j the can on most enjoyable. Mr. Hansen is giving his services to ! Cedar City as part of the plan of the . Utah Agricultural college, to benllufy , tho state by beautifying of parks, play i grounds, and the surroundings of pub-j lie buildings. Mr. Hansen has alio planned the grounds for tho branch Agricultural college at Cedar City. Hibf activities have taken him into every j community of Utah and into southern Idaho. nn |