Glimpses of our national parks . ion. It isprobable that they were known to De Soto, who died in 1542 less thana hundred miles away. It is tradition that Indian tribes warred fortheir possession but that finally a truce was made which enabled alltribes to avail alike of their waters. Government analyses of the waters disclose more than 20 chemi-cal constituents, but it is not these nor their combination to whichis principally attributed the waters unquestioned virtue in manydiseased conditions, but to their remarkable radioactivity. TheNational Park Service will send full information to inquir
Glimpses of our national parks . ion. It isprobable that they were known to De Soto, who died in 1542 less thana hundred miles away. It is tradition that Indian tribes warred fortheir possession but that finally a truce was made which enabled alltribes to avail alike of their waters. Government analyses of the waters disclose more than 20 chemi-cal constituents, but it is not these nor their combination to whichis principally attributed the waters unquestioned virtue in manydiseased conditions, but to their remarkable radioactivity. TheNational Park Service will send full information to °—20 5 66 OUR NATIOISTAL PARKS. XVI THE ZION NATIONAL PARK Special Characteristics: Vividly-Colored and Fantastically-Carved Sand-stone Cliffs Bordering a Deep Valley NOT many miles north of the Grand Canyon National Park thedesert of southern Utah finds its most gorgeous expression in adeep canyon between sandstone cliffs of great height and vivid the famous Vermilion Cliff, whose brilliant red precipice. Photograph by R. D. Adams Angels Landing, Zion National Paek brightens more than a hundred desert miles, joins the glisteningWhite Cliff, another desert feature of celebrity, the white overlyingthe red. Here, too, sandstones and shales of many other hues unitein dazzling combination. The canyon of Mukuntuweap River, cut-ting vertically down 3,000 feet, displays these colors in many majesticand fantastically modeled masses. This valley has been known to the Mormons since the late fifties,and Brigham Young named it Little Zion Canyon in 1861. A fewyears later it was explored and described by Government geologistsand a few years afterwards reserved for scientific reasons under thetitle of Mukuntuweap National Monument. It was not until 1916that its amazing scenic splendor was made known to the public, andsince then it has been entered by an automobile road and has become OUR NATIONAL PARKS. 67 the resort of tourists. In 1918 President Wilson enlarged its
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