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Show e tiyould Direct Tourists jflii'o Mountain Meadows it n; The Iron County Record, a A. eekly newspaper printed at edar City, in an editorial points ut that Cedar City is passing ..,,p a chance to increase local jurist travel because they have ersj-siied to preserve an important , 'historical marker. J6ts Tne editorial is quoted as fol-jws: fol-jws: "We refer to the monument monu-ment at Mountain Meadows be-ween be-ween Enterprise and Veyo. Of illed ourse, this is just as important ,ii d other towns of southern Utah ''"is it is to Cedar City, but the Con'-'edar City Chamber of Com- '.'nerce took the initial steps to -et up a monument at the John h Lee grave, and to mark the 'ite of the historical event. "Something should be done to reserve and maintain this, narker and its surroundings nd to see to it that a good ; oad, well marked, is provided 3 make it possible for those Vho desire to do so to visit the jjv'lace. It has tremendous histor-cal histor-cal value and for this reason H fiUone, it should be preserved. Ve hope someone does some-,hing some-,hing about it soon." 'PK: For the uninformed, the edi-5,oral edi-5,oral has reference to the place ' 'yhere John D. Lee was exe-Waiuted exe-Waiuted and buried in 1877 at the j,. ite of the famous Mountain vleadows massacre following fcjis trial and conviction at Bea-jj..er Bea-jj..er the year previous for allegedly alleg-edly taking part in the massacre CCLVhich occurred in 1857. |