. The national parks portfolio. of trouble. Later it was known to the geologists,who buried graphic descriptions in their scientific texts. It was made anational monument in 1909, but the public did not discover it until 1917. Nowit is reached by rail and motor, and a public camp has comfort for all comers. Zion Canyon is in truth the Rainbow of the Desert. Its carved cliffs arequite as high and its conformation not dissimilar to those of the YosemiteValley. But instead of granite, its precipices are of sandstone stratifiedin brilliant contrasts. Most of its cliffs are gorgeously red two-third

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. The national parks portfolio. of trouble. Later it was known to the geologists,who buried graphic descriptions in their scientific texts. It was made anational monument in 1909, but the public did not discover it until 1917. Nowit is reached by rail and motor, and a public camp has comfort for all comers. Zion Canyon is in truth the Rainbow of the Desert. Its carved cliffs arequite as high and its conformation not dissimilar to those of the YosemiteValley. But instead of granite, its precipices are of sandstone stratifiedin brilliant contrasts. Most of its cliffs are gorgeously red two-thirds up,and glistening white above; and some of these white-topped monsters arecapped again in crimson. In places the white is streaked across withcrimson bands like a Roman sash. 8 - s$L ^90^tiHBEft&M 4 •• 111r - ,j IKl-il . «?^ «f mo -,- -? • ~ ?—» .1—iJwfe. —nl 9t^ - J The Public Camp on the Floor of Zion Canyon 6^163°—21—16 (241) Often the White Tops of These Fairy Cliffs are Streaked with Vermilion. Photograph by Willis T. Lee Where the Canyon Narrows (242)

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