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Show 105 Under the headline "Trip Spreads Utah's Fame," The Salt Lake Tribune published a story speculating on the impact of recent events on the state. "Utah's scenic wonderlands will receive immeasurable advertising benefit as the result of the tour recently made by more than 200 prominent individuals and the ceremonies incident to the presentation of Bryce Canyon National park [sic] to the government, according to Horace M. Albright, supcrintcndcn1 of Ycllowstonc park and assistant director of the national park scrvicc."313 Through all the speculation of the new national park's impact on the state, the underlying theme was economic development. Preservation - scenic or otherwise - did not enter the postdedication news. Before Mather left Salt Lake City for Washington, D.C., he gave an interview to the Deseret News. The resulting story asserted that the agricultural industry of Southern Utah needed to make more of an effort to cater to and profit from national park touris1s, "which would be beneficial to the parks service as well as to the farmer."314 Mather explained the dilemma: "As no effort has been made to organize southern Utah, the hotel and tourist camps are forced to send to the coast and points of northern Utah for their food. This is expensive and robs the residents of a substantial income which they are justly entitled to."315 The Salt Lake Tribune reflected on the recent events and on the surging number of tourists visiting national parks each year: ''Thousands of people who formerly felt that vacation time demanded that they go to Europe now find pleasure and education in trips m Salt lake Tribune, '·Trip Spreads Utah's fame," September 20, 1928, 20. JI• Deseret News, ··J>arksOffer Murt for Souih Utah,·' September 21, 1928, sec. 2. I. mlbid. |
