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Show Utah Parks Show Increase In Tourists Zion National Park, October 14 The annual travel year figures for southern Utah's two well-known national parks clearly show that, despite the drop in vacation travel trav-el at many other sections of the country, these parks continue' to incief.se in popularity, and show a large increase in travel over all previous year. It is interesting to note that travel from the state of California exceeds all other foreign states in attendance, and for a time threatened to exceed even the attendance from the state of Utah. At the end of the s ason, however, Utah showed : an a .tendance of 23.5LM personj as against California's attendance of 17 893 for Zion, and 15,249 from i. lab as against 13.M87 from California Cali-fornia at Bryce. At Zmi National Park, which was the first park (U-ated in Utah and which has over since shown u continued gain In tne number of visitors, 50,183 persons entered the pa k dining lOM sciuon, as against 55,217 fcr the same period In U'M, or an increase of slightly over 7 per cent. It is ' t.nificnnt tha the gain in travel to this park is made up of persons making their first visit here, as the figures show that the increase of first entry cars cr new Li i i'es.? is a hig'i as 29 per cent c.er any pmvious urns, while there '.s a decrease of 17 per cent in cars making the'r ,-eccnd visit The famous . Zi';n-Mtunt Zi';n-Mtunt Carmel Tu'.nsl during the past season ccmplelcd its first yeai of full service and has rapidly become one of the major po'n'.s of interest in the national nark system, not only foi the wcndi-r :t the tunnel itself, but for the lnaiAiilous scenery which ha? been 'ipened to "iew on rhe east sirif. of Zicn The exceptionally fine nam in new visitors is a very favo nble propN ry for the ac'pnees r.I th-i tourist indiirtn in the state cl Utah. A Bryce Canyon National Park, an even larger increase in total travi-1 Is shown, that paik showing 41,571 visitors agninpt 35,982 foi 1930, or 13.4 per cent gain. Here, likewise, was an increase of new visitors amounting to 15 per cent. The liict t.hnt Individuals arriviiii! at the parks by railroad or Rtages showed a large decrease over this yie totals In the attendance at ious years has not at all affected method oi transportation In prev-southern prev-southern Utah parks. a the priv-vatc priv-vatc automobile transportation has more than oflset that loss. |