498 



THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



A ZIGZAG MOUNTAIN ROAD NEAR DENVER, COLORADO 



and turned the land that lies around Salt 

 Lake City into a garden. 



I brought from Egypt several years 

 ago the greatest irrigation expert in the 

 world, perhaps, the man who built the 

 Assuan Dam upon the Nile — Sir William 

 Willcocks, the man who claims to have 

 discovered where the Garden of Eden 

 was located, at the junction of the Tigris 

 and Euphrates rivers — and I sent him to 

 look over the irrigation enterprises of the 

 United States, and he said : "Nowhere 

 else have I seen people who understand 

 so wisely how to apply water to land as 

 around Salt Lake City." 



Utah has wonderful beauty in it as well 

 as great stretches of desert that are to be 

 reclaimed. We have just discovered a 

 new beauty spot there, Bryce Canyon. 



A PROSPECT FOR THE FUTURE 



When the King of Belgium was here I 

 gave him a picture of a new beauty spot 

 in the Lnited States that we had found 

 within a canyon. Just think of a land in 

 which after ioo years or more of occu- 

 pation men can go out and discover a 

 great canyon filled with wonderful stalag- 

 mites, great pillars of rock which rise up 

 hundreds of feet from the bottom of the 



