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Show Cave and Canyon . Visitors Show Increase There was an increase of 51 per cent in the tourist travel at Timp-anogos Timp-anogos Cave for the week of July 4th over that of last year, Thomas Walker, forest ranger at the Cave Camp reports. The increase for the entire month was not as great as for this one week, however. There was a small increase in the entire month's travel but a small decrease toward the end of the month. This decrease is attributed to the many sto.am during the latter part of the month. There were 2880 persons who visited the cave during the entire month of July 1936. This is an increase in-crease of 161 over the same month last year when there were 2719 sightseers in the cave. On July 4th 373 persons visited the cave while on the 5th there were 533 visitors, making a total of 906 visitors for the two days. Last year on the 4th of July 386 persons made the trip through the natural cavern, and 219 people visited it on the 5th, making a total of 605 for the two days of last year. This makes 301 more persons who visited the cave during the two day holiday in 1937 than in 1936. Ford M. Paulson, forest guard in the Wasatch National Forest, of which American Fork canyon, is a part, reports that some 1479 cars traveled over the Loop road during the 24th and 25th of July celebration. celebra-tion. There was a total of 6921 passengers in the cars. Four checkers worked during the two day holiday, two men being stationed at the boundary in American Amer-ican Fork canyon and two at the North Fork in Provo canyon. There were 4199 persons who traveled over the Loop from the Provo side in 601 cars. There were fewer persons from the American Fork side, 2722, but there were 177 more cars, making a total of 878 automobiles traveling over the Loop from this side. Oiling of the road from the Lower Low-er Power Plant in American Fork canyon up to Mutual Dell commenced commenc-ed last week. Practically all of the gravel has been hauleu and the oiling oil-ing operations will commence within with-in the next few days. The completion comple-tion of this road will add greatly to the attractiveness of American Fork canyon. |