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ZION NATIONAL PARK DEDICATED 

 r T , HE formal dedication of Zion National 

 Park, Utah, to the American people was 

 held on September 15, Stephen T. Mather, 

 Director of the National Park Service pre- 

 siding. Congress created the Zion Park, 

 November 19, 1919, making it the nine- 

 teenth member of the National Park Sys- 

 tem. The area has been reserved since 

 1909, and was first known as the Mukun- 

 tuweap National Monument, and later as 

 the Zion National Monument. Governor 

 Simon Bamberger and United States 

 Senators Reed, Smoot and William H. 

 King solemnized the occasion with appro- 

 priate addresses. 



Zion National Park is in extreme South- 

 western Utah. It is reached by rail from 

 both Salt Lake City and Los Angeles by 

 the Salt Lake Route to Lund, thence by 

 motor stage a distance of a hundred miles. 

 It is also reached by motor from either 

 Salt Lake City or Los Angeles over the 

 Arrowhead Trail. 



The park contains 120 square miles of 

 76,800 acres. Zion Canyon is the most 

 important scenic feature, bisecting the park 

 from north to south, it is 15 miles in length 

 varying in width from 50 to 2.500 feet. 

 with walls 800 to 2,000 feet high. A well 

 known writer says : "This canyon, wind- 

 ing like a snake, abounding in enormous 

 peaks and domes, and glowing like a Ro- 

 man sash, is one of the most striking spec- 

 tacles which even America has to offer." 

 Because of its gorgeous coloring, Zion has 

 been called the "Rainbow of the Desert." 



Although the newest of our National 

 Parks, Zion is only new in presentation as 

 an attraction for the traveler and lover of 

 the marvelous in nature. Geologically 

 speaking, it is perhaps millions of years 

 old, historically probably thousands. Only 

 this year ruins of the Cliff dwellings of a 

 pre-historic race have been discovered in 

 almost inaccessible places in the canyon 

 walls. The Mormon pioneers were the first 

 of our time to discover the region, enter- 

 ing in 1858. In 1861, Brigham Young visit- 

 ed the region and named the canyon Little 

 Zion. Captain C. E. Dutton, the cele- 

 brated geologist, wrote, "No wonder the 

 fierce Mormon zealot who named it was 

 reminded of the Great Zion on which his 

 fervent thoughts were bent, of houses not 

 built with hands, eternal in the heavens." 

 Major Powell, noted explorer of the Grand 

 Canyon, visited the region in 1870. Cap- 

 tain Dutton studied it several years later. 



However, until the coming of the rail- 

 road and the motor road, few persons had 

 ever seen the region. Elevated to park- 

 hood, Zion has come into its own. 



