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Show 68 services of Mr. Mather to the cause of the national parks and spoke of his association with the late John Muir, pioneer of the outdoor movcmcnt." 182 The Deserer Evening News also reported Colby's speech, including his call for better roads: "Thousands of people are drawn each year to California for no other reason than to sec Yosemite valley [sic]. The opportunity is now at band, he declared, to develop and provide good roads in our national parks so that the autoist may travel in safety and comfort while he is viewing the wonders of Amcrica.''183 If Colby spoke of preservation as a mission of the national parks, neither paper reported it. Colby's influence may have gone further than promoting roads. In the month following Zion National Park's designation, a group of about fifty men in Sall Lake City formed the Utah Mountain Club, "whose purpose will be to see that Utahns come to appreciate Utah." 184 The Salr Lake Tribune reported that the club was patterned after the Sierra Club, and its primary focus was to bring publicity to Zion National Park. 185 Zion and the National Park Jdca After Colburn's New York Times dispatch from Utah in 1873, forty-six years passed before another description of Little Zion Canyon appeared in that newspaper. 1S6 But the same breathless language praising the landscape that characterized Colburn 's 182 Salt lake Tribune, "Park ls Reality," November 25, 1919. IU Deserel En:ning News, "Park Is Big Asset," November 25, 1919. iu Salt 115 Lake Tribune, ''Zion National l'ark Associa1ion Planned," December 4, 1919, 22. Salt Lake Tribune. '·Club to Extol Uiah's Beauties," December 18, 1919, 22. 116 Eyre Powell, ''New National Park, Zion Canyon," New York Times, December 21, 1919, 48. In this article, the Times inaeeurntely reported that John Wesley Powell was first 10 discover the canyon. The article did not mention if the two Powells were related. |
