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Show 67 for all for commercial and money-making projects alien to the Park Service's organic act."11& With Utah's first national park, the news of development and economic opportunities related to tourism overrode news of preservation. Utah's newspapers announced research expeditions to Zion, but the stories were brief - several sentences and vague. These accounts often carried as little detail as; "Little Zion canyon will be explored and cliff dwellings there will be excavated by a research party."179 Another article simply announced that a group of geologists from the University of Utah "will study geological and mineralogical formations, as well as enjoy the sccncry." 180 Typically, the papers would publish a few sentences announcing that a group of scientists planned to visit the park, and similar coverage would welcome the group on return from the canyon. 181 When Mather visited Utah and announced that President Wilson had signed the Zion National Park legislation, he was accompanied by William E. Colby, a director of the Sierra Club. Colby also spoke to the Salt Lake Commercial Club and vouched for the benefits Yosemite National Park had brought to California. The Salt l ake Tribune reported, "[Colbyl said that his state has found its national parks a great asset. Development of Zion park [sic], he said, is the only way in which to make it both profitable to the state and enjoyable for the people. He paid a warm tribute to the great 171 Albright and Schenck, Creating the Natiurwl Park Sen•ice, 271. 179 Deseret Evening News, ··ro Explore Cliff Dwellings in Little Zion Canyon," June 13, 1919, sec. I, 10. IICI Descre/ Evening News, "Will Tour Canyon," June 20, 1919, sec. I, 3. An example ofsirnilarrcponing frorn The Salt Lake Tribune was ..Lauds Grandeur of Little Zion," August 21, 1919. m Desere1 Evenin~ Ncwl", "Salt Lake !'arty Back from Exploration Trip," July 2, 1919, sec. I, 8. |
