Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-07-01
SCENIC ATTRACTIONS


| q stone COlunn 4UU rect IN neigntn,
a close representative of gigantic
pipe organ. This is located south of
the San Juan river and west of the
Navajo Indian reservation. A
neighbor to Organ rock is Train
rock, a butte three miles in length,
having an accurate profile of a
gigantic passenger train.
Scenery IN asset
Scenery is tremendous COM
mercial asset to any country. 1t has
been one of the big drawing cards
for the tourist business to Califor-
MIA. The Alps in Switzerland have
been the greatest commercial pos
session of that country, and people
have circled the globe by hundreds
of thousands to view the Alps.
From scenic standpoint the Alps
do not excel this section, neither in
fantastic beauty nor magnitude.
The present generation in Utah has
grown up among the rugged rocks
and beautiful glades of this section
and has looked upon them as SIM
pie, commonplace and quite in keep
ing with the country. 1t has
not stopped to admire the beauties
lavished by nature upon this won
derful land or to think what they
mean to people who have never
looked upon mountains such as
these, except in photographs. Stu
dents of geology go into raptures
over the splendid opportunities here
afforded to study the processes by
which the earth's crust has been
formed and of noting the freaks of
nature in the curious modelling to
be found here.
Not far from the Cedar Breaks
is the noted Bryan Head mountain,
the highest peak in all that section
of the country, from the top of
which a sweeping view can be had
of all the surrounding country. The
clearness of the atmosphere enables
the tousist to see hundred miles
or more in every direction. Bryan
Head is the most imposing peak
this side of Mount Badly and in the
early days, before the construction
of the telephone or telegraph,
formed link in the system of sig
nal points by means of which inn
portant communications were flash
ed down thru the state and dis
seminated among the people of the
settlements.
The breathing spring, which
comes and goes in intervals of fiji
teen minutes, is oneo f the chrosi-
teen minutes, is one Of the curosi-
er failing interest to visitors, as also
is the large Blue Spring which
gushes from the ground in a small
river. cool, clear and beautiful and
flows only a mile or two to disap-
pear again as mysteriously and un-
tremendously as it gushed forth.
The CcdU-Long VdHey High1Odr.
The construction of the Cedar
Long Valley road, which is a gov
eminent project, will open up this
entire territory to tourist travel. 1t
will pass by the south end of the
Cedar Breaks and near Navajo
lake. From it eventually branch
roads will be constructed and made
to skirt the entire brow of the Ced-
ar Breaks, winding in and out
among the terminals of the num-
erous beautiful and fantastic can
yons.
Construction work began on this
road little more than year ago.
One section, three miles in length,
is being cut out of the solid rock
at cost of more than $4,000 per
mile. AT one place the underlying
strata has been shot away by the
government explosive 7. n. r. "a,
and the lodges literally overhang
the roadway. A dozen cars can be
sheltered at once under one of these
caves.
The purpose of building this
road was not only to serve as a
scenic highway, but to open up a
large body OF excellent timber and
to form a connecting highway be
tween Iron county and Kane and
, Garfield counties. Funds are as
Sured for the completion of the
road as far as Navajo lake, and
should be ready for travel by
July |.
The Greatest Scenic Trip.
Hence the greatest scenic trip the
world can offer today is that cover
ing Cedar Breaks, Bryce Canyon,
Grand Canyon and Zion National
park. Beginning this year a trans
Iportation company has made ar
rangements TO meet tourists at Lund
on the Salt Lake Route, carry them
thirty-four miles to Cedar City and
the next day to the Cedar Breaks, a
distance of twenty-five miles,
thence on thru the glories of the
Dixie Sewer National forest to
Bryce canyon, distance of eighty
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