Show IN CANYON COOLNESS T is doubtful whether Utah residents properly apPreciate ap ap- appreciate IT their climate blessings The Tho towering and tho mountains that temper tho the sun o of summer rigors of winter aro our permanent possession Thc They beneficent effects so 80 aro arc with us always we tako take their greatly for granted l we wo fail to appraise them at their true value value- when wo tl think of them at alL The smothering smothering smothering ering humidity that has bas enclosed tho community liko like a stifling during the tho past few da days s 's sho should shod d tho the delightful summer slimmer 1 prompt us lIS to recognition of weather wo we usually enjoy enjo Only as wo we reflect that our recent extraordinary tenure of discomfort which is but temporary and unusual hero is tho ordinary conditions elsewhere do wo we como cone to full realization that our linos lines indeed have havo been cast in pleasant places Unlike the tho suffocated cast wo we hayo have o relief at our very lory or doors Upon tho those o c rare occasions when Salt Lake is not itself a veritable summer resort tho cool canyons beckon to their t recesses Within a few fow miles of tho the city a trip of no more than an nn hour b bj by trolley and much less by automobile hovers ho grateful relief One has no moro more than approached tho the entrances to these places of refuge than tho heat falls away like discarded clothing the atmosphere changes eg egas as if by magic ic tho torrid waves wa caught cau ht up by b city streets are succeeded by the ozone-laden ozone breezes filI filtered fil fil- through the pine trees and purified by contact I with tho the ru rugged peaks of the Wasatch In no other particular docs does Salt Lake so 50 persistently persistently persis persis- ignore the unusual gifts of a beneficent Provi- Provi Providence dence than in this matter of the nearby canyons Only one Emi Emigration Canyon has been thrown open to the tho use uso of the family of moderate means tho the others equally equall as susceptible of being bended bonded to mans man's summer summer summer sum sum- mer use aro are accessible only by b automobile At our balm of Mother N Nature Nature Na Na- very ery threshold lies the tho healing aturo a- a ture turo tho zest of life the tho full enio enjoyment of summer whatever hato tho the eccentricities of the tho thermometer a full fulI free infallible panacea for most bodil bodily ills are arc there for those who take Yet Yeto wo we f fail il in large largo numbers to reach forth hands and md grasp Comparisons are arC odious but it is inevitable that one shall contemplate tho the avidity a with which a sweltering sweltering sweltering eastern city would seize soize upon this treasure we almost ignore Were these delightful can canyons ons within such easy engy reach of any eastern metropolis of Salt Lakes Lake's importance trolley lines would pierce each of them Every ery mo mountain cleft would bo be e dotted doted with summer homes pleasure resorts would crowd one another another another an an- other for room for hundreds of miles in n ever every direction tion smothered unfortunates would stream to them for relief and entertainment To Lo Le Grand Young and his associates who opened Canyon to io the people of Salt Lake commendation commendation com com- is duo due They have hn struggled against public pub pub- public lic lie lethargy and ignorance of the delights of that sheltered length of mountain-bound mountain coolness an and life- life giving air they have ha contended with the forces of nature and antI the ers pcr perversities ties of topo topography and they have refused to be discouraged From one end o of that canyon to tho the other dwell through tho thin summer discerning Salt Lake citizens who avoid the tho discomforts discomforts discomforts forts of tb tho city and wonder at the tho density of their fellows hi in not imitating that example |