Whoever collected the stationery presented over the last three days also brought home these soap wrappers that advertise Union Pacific’s “Cedar City Gateway” to the southern Utah parks. The first wrapper once contained “Colgate’s Floating Soap,” obviously Colgate’s answer to Ivory Soap (which was “so pure it floats”).

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The second, slightly smaller, wrapper once held a small bar of “Cashmere Bouquet Toilet Soap.” Though I suspect these wrappers are at least 90 years old, they, or at least this one, still have a very fragrant bouquet.

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Both soap wrappers list the four major destinations on UP’s southern Utah tours: Cedar Breaks, Bryce, Grand Canyon and Zion. All of them are listed as national parks when in fact Cedar Breaks was a national monument. In fact, Cedar Breaks wasn’t designated a national monument until 1933, which is why I would date these soap wrappers, and the stationery shown in the last few days, to around 1935 plus or minus a couple of years.

While the Union Pacific-built lodges at the three national parks are all still open for business, the day-use facility that the railroad built at Cedar Breaks, which probably consisted of a small restaurant and souvenir shop, was demolished by the Park Service in the 1970s.