Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-10-06
SCENERY AN ASSET.

C1bN EN- NN AOobls
& OUTHERN Utah fails to realize
- the asset it has in the form Of its
beautiful scenery. The most of us
have grown up among the rocks and
wales of this wonderful land and have
come to take all these beauties and
wonders of this favored region as
matter of course, and fail to realize
that what is natural and common
place to us is looked upon with wonder
and intense admiration by people of
other regions, where no such phenom-
ena of nature abound.
In another part of this issue will be
found an article from the pen Of K. NJ.
Warner of Corona, California, as pub
lished in the Courier, printed at
that place, which serves to show how
the scenery of this region affects ev-
en- "A Californian, whose native coun-
try attracts sight-seers and tourists
from every part of the globe. And
yet the scenery of which he paints
such a vivid pen picture is right on
the highway between Leeds and Wash
ington, where were any of US out af-
ter scenic pictures we would never
think of pointing a camera.
What then would Mr.. Warner think
if he were TO be conducted into the
Breaks of the Cedar Canyon, where
he could gaze upon one of the most
fantastic, fairy scenes the Creator
ever fashioned; where not only every
color of the rainbow, but q hundred
tints and variations are mingled in
one wonderful panorama of towers
spires, and citidels, resembling fairy
dream, and appearing that a ghust of
wind might sweep the whole away
like the ashes of past decade, SO
delicate and fragile do they appear;
or into the Businesses of the Little
Zion Valley, amid the towering noun
tains of the Temple, which he viewed
at distance OF several miles and sur
missed to be several hundred feet ir
height, and which on closer inspection
he would find to be in reality 5000
feet in height, with almost sheer
sides; or still yet to the brink of tn,
Royal Gorge Of the Colorado River
which can be best viewed from tn,
north side, from whence he coulC
look into the dizzy depths thousands
of feet below and see the great rive
winding like a tiny silver thread a
the bottom of the great crevise below
These and many other sights abount
in this part of the country which i
opened to more easy access would at
tract tens of thousands of sight-seer
annually along the route of the Ar
rowhead's trail.
What would he think of week o
two's camping trip on our mountains
in the grassy gladcs between the beau
tiful groves Of pine and quakingasl
with crystal clear streams of water
Astounding with speckled mountain
trout; or spent over at the Navajt
lake, one of the beauty spots of thi
great country?
Nor do we need a railroad into thi
country longer to open these attrac
tions to the tourist and sight-seer
All that is required is the further inn
provement of the roads and highway
leading TO them-particularly the Ar
rowhead trail from Southern Califor
MIA to Salt Lake City, and the roads
into our mountains and canyons
work that has already been so splen
didly commenced. There is nothing
that means so much to this country il
material way as good roads, and W,
should not balk at anything within
the bounds Of reason in order to OBJ
tain them A bond issue of $l00,00t
for this county would be a real bool
to everybody residing here, and if tn,
money raised by such a bond issu,
We're augmented as far as possibl,
with money derived from the STATE
and the general government, and al
expended wisely, this country woulC
be in a position to enjoy greater de
gree of prosperity than it has ever
even dreamed of. Let's force tn,
question up TO the County Commits,