The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1919-11-28

Jack Laf wrote characteristic appreciation
OF Zion canon for a railroad administration book
let. in which he said:
Zion canon is an epic. written by Mother Ma
ture in her most ecstatic humor, illustrated by
Creation in its most majestic manifestations pub
nshed by God Almighty as an inspiration to all
mankind. Zion canon is the most beautiful spot
on this continent. think have seen all the
famed show-places that the evolution of the
earths formation has made. And of them all
Zion to me stands first, stands alone"
zion has the double charm of form and color.
and IL Is hard to say which is the more appealing
The entrance to the canon is spacious and i'm
pressive The course up the Rio Virgin is tor
fu0us and the variation of view and of formation
Of the lofty walls is great At the end of six or
seven miles Of canon the wall narrows to the
stream What there is beyond is practically un-
known. Thus from the plateau above the WISH
Tor may look down thousands of vertical feet into
the painted canon with its river. From the river
Dank ne may look up thousands of feet with a
changing view at every turn of the canon
The entrance to the canon is most impressive
To the west rises the West Temple (7650 feetl
fanked by the Towers of the Virgin The guar
dian to the east is the East Temple (7.O0O).
nanked by the Waterman (635O) and Bridge
mountain t6650). Then come the Streaked war
on the west side and the Brown Wall on the east
side topped respectively by the Three Patriarchs
anu the mountain OF the Sun. Extraordinary fea-
lures OF the wall formation include El Goberna
dor. the Great Organ and the Temple of Sinawaya
The visitor finally comes to a point where the
chasm is more than 1000 feet deep and the wells
50 nearly touch that he looks up to see no slv
The walls are practically vertical and parallel and
warp in and out, thus cutting OF the blue above
Here is revealed the secret of the Making NJ
Zion, as is pointed out by DIR. g. K Gilbert Of tho
United States geological survey. This chasm Is
an example of downward erosion by sand-bearino
water which acts like the marble saw The emf
is not entirely vertical, because the current has
carried the cutting sand to one side or the ofher
and the cut undulates both In Its vertical ana
horizontal sections.
The forms along the canon walls are exfraor
binary And the colors are even more striking
The famous VermiIion Cliff of the Painted Desert
here combines with the White Cliff and we 500 .
thousand feet Of white superimposed on two
thousand feet of red. But this startling combine.
ton is but the beginning OF a yeritable riot ~
color. The Vermilion Cliff rests on the Painted
Desert stratum-350 feet of a deeper red SET ofr
BY purple and mauye shales Below this is 4 him.
dred feet Of brown and gray conglomerate. The
browning touch Is the celoring Of the upper sum
nits Of the White Cliff. Here there ara IN nlaces
several hundred feet of varfcolored shales ana
iimestores whose seepage Enthusiastically stains the
gilsteniHg white. In consequence of the tneeting
or these many col0rs Zion is as gorgeous ne )
Gypsy scarf and sunrise and sunset produce nm.
belieyabe effects. -
For example, take tile West Temple. From :
foundation Of mingled reds, yellows. browns