Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-09-28

Mr.. Wylie has been spending the
summer here and assured us that by
the opening of next season numerous
Improvements would be made and
trails completed to many of the rare
points. 1t is planned to endeavor to
interest the government in building u
road so that camp can be maintained
at the top of the gorge on the left
side.
At the close of the meeting, the
party seated in comfortable camp
chairs held a powwow around an old
fashioned camp fire, spun yarns and
just enjoyed themselves until retiring
time. Then, such sleep of refresh
ing tranquility without a qualm con
corning Mr.. Indians supersttious
dread of sleeping in the weird gorge.
Seeing the Canyon
Pen hath not power to portray the
many interesting peculiarities of the
Dixie wonderland with its grotesque
figures resembling the sphinx, pre-
historic and NEUROLOGICAL beings and
the handiwork of ancient and modern
men. The longer one gazes the more
there is to be seen, and the contem-
plation of natures handiwork when
this chasm was chiseled is inspiring.
Red walls fully 1000 feet high rise
perpendicularly on either side, as
smooth and straight as if moulded in
the furnace of the Gods. On top are
plateaus covered in places with tim
Der and on others are farms with
springs of living water where are
raised corn and other crops. AS it is
not practical to bring down the pro-
duce young pigs are carried up and
fed until there is now good sized
swinery in the upper regions, the
smoked product from which might be
called heavenly hams"
A few miles above camp is another
amphatheatre into which 4000-foot
cable has been erected from the per-
pendicular precipice to convey the
lumber from the sawmill in the for
est above. Some Embarrassing stunts
have been performed by few fear
.ictc h.
strand, but none of our party became
obsessed by such an idea.
After tempting breakfast wagons
and horses were secured and we pro-
ceeded up the canyon as far as wag-
ons can go and then took to the horses
and proceeded several miles further
until the walls narrowed and it became
too rugged to continue. At night a
party of young men arrived in camp
who had walked from Cedar City to
the head of the canyon and then down
the entire way, distance of so miles.
They reported that for long distance
the walls are so near together that
one can almost touch both sides For
eight hours they walked in the river
and on the way they routed heard
of deer. In a little side canyon they
attempted to catch fawn and by
standing in line they closed up the
mouh of the crevice, but the fawn
came toward them and with one leap
went over their heads and sped up
the main gorge.
By 2 o'clock our party had returned
to camp with whetted appetites, and
the way that iced tea, made from the
soft water flowing from the spring
through sandstone, disappeared was
marvellous and tasty and savory vi
ands were certainly appreciated by
hungry crowd. By the way, the wait
resses, who were experienced in cater
ing to the tourists in the Yellowstone,
captivated the guests and it is Won
der that they have not ere this been
carried away by some enthusiastic
traveller.
The irrepressibe motion picture
man, always on the alert for novelty,
has ben there and film of Zion Can
yon is scheduled to be presented for
the the first time in Salt Lake on Sep.
10 and 20. Another corps of film ar
lists are now on the way to the can
yon and second series is to be staged
which will be shown throughout the
eastern states. The environment is
especially adapted to staging some
most startling scenes; as for example,
the jumping off tremendous cliff and
landing easily at the bottom on the
cable, which is practically invisible.
HOmeward Bound.