Show S southern dathern utah soon to see vast Develop development meni of natural resources government railroad state anda an counties ahti es combine in plans T to 0 exploit wonderlands Wonder lands reprinted from salt lake tribune washington march it 11 development work r k in the zion alon national pork par utah a h in III be started as soon as climatic conditions permit under a pr program approved today by secre work existing roads and trails will be widened and traverse trails from east to west constructed in order that tourists may have easy access to the rim odthe of the great canyon which ik iff the parks principal feature the union pacific railroad has announced its intention secretary work said to begin construction at once upon a room hotel in the park to cost between and the union pacific program for the development or of the scenic resources sources of df southern utah involves expenditure pe pend iture during the coming summer that may be roughly placed at 1 this is a part of a program tor for the development of the southern part of the state tributary to the salt lake route tor for which appropriation has been made by tho the directors of the company the first step in that program of course is the construction of the railroad branch line from lund to cedar city of which other branches will serve the mines in iron county from which the ores will be smelted smelter at the steel plant to be erected near provo word comes from cedar city that the contractor for this construction st work the utah construction company is under orders to begin on the new line next thursday march 15 material collected the progress of assembling ties and rails tor for the new road at lund has hag been going on tor for some time and a large amount of material is already on the ground including terminals and depot in cedar city the railroad will cost in the neighborhood of according to the best information available the railroad has already taken over the big partially completed hotel at cedar city paying dollar for dollar the invested by the file citizens of that town in a cooperative plan for the construction of this building the union pacific will spend something like in the completion of the structure possibly another in fourn ashing it and an additional in the parking of the grounds and the general improvement of the facilities cili ties at cedar city all this expenditure pend iture at cedar city is in addition to the raised by the people of that city for the purchase of right of way for the railroad ri pi considerable in addition to the hotel gro grounds ands and the bortl end of the block 0 on n which the hotel is situated the railroad i has two blocks of land on the main street of cedar just north of the hotel and extending to where coal creek crosses that thoroughfare the passenger depot will be on oil main street with attractive grounds on first west lest street will be the freight depot the railroad instead of having a Y tor for turning trains will use a baloon this necessitates the purchase also ot some ground in ill the second block west of main street and a spur line extending up the center of this block will serve warehouses and similar establishments which may be located there the to blocks on oil which the actual terminals are located have been planned with a view to ultimate development of the yards so as to provide parking space for five pull man mail a day randall L jones representative from iron county in the state legislature has been an active worker in behalf of cedar city and the development of southern utah generally and until recently as secretary 0 of the cedar city chamber of commerce in close touch with developments alo along ag these lines E completion expected when this chis work is completed said gald mr jones yesterday cedar city will have some of the finest depot grounds to be found in the state the railroad 1 is sparing no pal pains lis to make the place attractive to the tourist it is hoped that before july passes a traveler may arrive at cedar city in ill a pul pullman linan sleeper and walking across across the street obtain his breakfast in the new hotel so far as the exploitation of the scenic resources of the southern part of the state and its wonderful rock masses and colors however goes the ho railroad and the accommodations at cedar city are but the beginning several agencies are at work the national park service as ab noted in the washington dispatch the forest service the federal bureau of public roads the counties affected and their individual citizens the railroads intention as announced to build a hotel ut tit zion national park representing with the additional equipment required an anve invest st continued on oil page S SOUTHERN UT H SOON 0 SEE continued from page 1 ment placed at around Is supplemented by plans for a similar lar structure at bryce canyon rim running in cost around and a lunch station with some limited hotel accommodation at cedar bre breaks aks costing around when ace accommodations 0 have thus been p provided provided for handling large numbers the plans are understood in another year to involve a line of f motor busses with necessary equipment which will of themselves require another investment of roads to be built the road question is an important one and various forces are cooperating to solve it prisoners from the state prison will this year it is expected be placed at work vork cm an the road from Ail Ander dersons sens ranch to zion national park they will run a new road from the ranch to toquerville the prisoners are also expected to improve the highway into zion national park there connecting with the proposed improvements mentioned in the dispatch from washington given elven above the road crosses north creek where a bridge went out some few years ago and arrangements it is recognized will have to be made for restoring that structure before heavy traffic may proceed to the park without danger of having a schedule disrupted from andersons Ander sens ranch north for several miles a new road is under construction as a federal aid highway project this eliminates several dangerous spots and much rouget going in the route which this section of the salt lake national park high way has followed in the past still further north citizens of washington county are raising by subscription to improve the same thoroughfare ough fare over the black ridge dugway dugnay and up tp the iron county line with these improvements made there will be a fair roadway all the way from cedar city to zion national park from cedar easterly the forest i highway finished in 1921 to midway near cedar breaks and last year past navajo lake almost to the mysterious duel springs will be completed the coming summer to long valley and the salt lake grand canyon highway in kane county from the latter thoroughfare a new road will be constructed up red canyon toward br arce ce and the forest s service ervice will construct a road from the panguitch tropic road the one which comes up red canyon to the rim of bryce this will give passable connection this year and good connection in another season between cedar city and bryce by a fairly direct route which has not heretofore been practical tor for anyone but the most daring while attention will be especially given the present year to these road improve cements to connect the three great and readily accessible rylands fairylands fai of that territory the plan Is ultimately to bring the grand canyon park in on the improvement program this year the salt lake grand canyon highway will be improved between mt carmel camel and ka nab as well as in certain portions of long valley and also further north towards marysvale Marys vale the forest road through the kaibab will be improved and arrangements will be attempted to obtain cooperation from arizona in completing the highway from fredonia to the kaibab forest boundary then at the beginning of the next season all will be ready tor for further plans tor for the development of the north rim in t the he grana canyon national park in the meantime accommodations tor for tourists are to be enlarged the coming season so that the automobilist automo biliet who makes the trip to bright angel point need have no fear that his bis nee neece cannot be cared for when he gets there bridge included the federal government j aaion of for zion national park specifies that part I 1 is s to be ex in construction of 0 a bridge across the virgin rivet river this will be somewhere in the vicinity tv of rick ville and will enable a traveler headed for the grand canyon by a driff dral of eight miles to eliminate some thirty miles from the present route which takes him down the virgil river as far as hurricane and then by bv a stiff climb up the hurricane fault the recent utah legislature played a part in the program so far as bryce is concerned by passing a law permitting the state land fand commissioner to lease this school section 0 or r any iny part of it for hotel and tourist camp pu purposes reposes this bill was prepared by the state land er with the approval ot of governor mabey it now awaits the governors signature the state land commissioner already had power to sell this land or to lease it tor for grazing or for mineral purposes it might be that he had power also to lease it tor for other purposes but ln in any event the matter was thought of 0 such groat great importance as to call for or the approval of the legislature as the board of directors of the states business 1 administration in addition the railroad before making the large investment that would be required in such an undertaking wished to have assurance that the tenure of the property might last for a longer term than the customary five or ten years of a grazing lease Cooper cooperation atlon in view said mr jones yester 1 day of the prospective development in the southern part of the state both by reason of the exploitation of scenic attractions and the industrial Indu al development that will come with N ith the establishment of steel nills mills in utah th the e citizens of the i state in my opinion and particularly all cham bers of commerce should cooperate in putting this development over in the biggest way possible it is not a matter of financial assistance so much but people should talk utah and think utah and create such an atmosphere that we will come to realize that in utah we have as good a state as there is in the union with such a spirit prevailing here the tourist and the visitor cannot help but be infected and carry the same message to ills his home industries will undoubtedly follow the opening up of the iron fields for these the chambers of commerce would I 1 believe do well to be on the lookout advance agents agent s of many large concerns have already been or are now on the ground going over the possibilities one of the largest manufacturers of automobiles in the world has been studying the situation through special agents sent here california cities are already making preparations for the indu industrial s trial development and their newspapers are asserting that the greatest event in the industrial development of the entire pacific coast is the opening up of the iron deposits of utah and a study of the underlying conditions will reveal no reason why this should not be so |