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Show 147 expenditures, only likely if the area were given park status. Unfortunately, as Sen. Moss said: "It was a case of no mining or no park.',451 Nearly the same quote that The Salt lake Tribune attributed to Moss was attributed to Burton in the Deseret News: "We had our backs against the wall and were faced with a pure park park fsic] or no park at all ... We wanted to have our cake and eat it too.',4 52 After Congress passed the park bill, the Deseret News reflected on the 1961 trip Udall had Jed through the Canyonlands - the rrip that had kicked off the protracted legislative process. The language journalists had used to report the trip in 1961 was echoed in the Deseret News' 1964 reminiscence. In reference to Udall, the newspaper reported: "The man whose own constitution was about as impressive as the view also called the park area the 'biggest concentration and variety of natural wonders in the whole United Sates."' The story replayed almost the entire 1961 trip, from the helicopter ride, the Jeep safari, the river trip, and the press conference when journalists took notes by flashlight as Udall sat on the picnic table outlining his plan for the Canyonlands. The reporter used the metaphor of Udall outlining the park plans by flashlight and carried it to the completion of the legislation: ''The proposal has since had a lot more light put on it and Utahns will soon start to benefit from the glow.'.4!iJ This reporting that conjured images from a remote canyon and predicted a benefit for the state was reminiscent of news from the establishment of Zion and Bryce decades 01 Salt lake Tribune, ··Utah's Third Park," September 4, 1964, 20. m Gordon Eliot White, ··confereesOkay Utah Parks Bill,'" Deserel News, Septemb~r 2, 1964, A\ . m Dese,·e1 News, "'In Primitive Canyonlands," S<.'Ptcmbcr 8, 1964, A 16. |
