Show scenic wonders of zion national park utah and the building of auto tunnel through cliffs what utah makes creates or fosters that has a tendency to draw at attention of the world to this glorious wonderland of natural beauty and unequaled field of business opportunity and homelike hom lioni elife comforts to its rapidly expanding population has a legitimate place in the columns of this macy magazine simply because it caters primarily and particularly ticul arly to the advancement of chief sing single le industry the wresting of clean untarnished wealth from the hidden resources of its mountains is not reason for clinging to the beaten path to the exclusion of everything else and particularly in instance where mining enters into the picture as it does in the following story dealing with the marvelous awe inspiring b 6 grandeur and of zion national park for the illustrations and the recital dealing b with the work of boring 6 a tunnel of sufficient size to permit the driving of automobiles through a mountain of solid sandstone and which at intervals is connected with the edge of the precipice so that the tourist may secure frequent glimpses of the carved and painted landscape through which he rolls merrily along the mining review is under tinder obligation to mine and quarry the S sullivan v a n machinery companas Comp anys rn monthly 0 n t h I 1 y publication and to the author of the article T J welcker of the com banys engineering staff the less technical description of zion park and the place it occupies ill n the 1 governments pro and operated I 1 list of f national monuments is s taken from a recent report port of tile the secretary of interior roy 0 vest est on oil national parks s ly A IV 7 view in zion canyon from a gallery of the zion mt carmel tunnel in this report he says outstanding event of the year the outstanding event of the year in the park service and of vital importance to the scenic development of southern utah was the commencement of construction of the zion mt carmel road this highway when completed will connect zion t the h e grand canyon and the new B r y c e canyon national park the state of utah is now working at its end of this highway and is also improving a section of the arrowhead trail near the arizona state line another bridge which will be of great benefit to many visitors is that now being constructed across the colorado river at lees ferry by the state and federal governments this bridge which it is expected will be completed and dedi caad early next spring ID will b greatly facilitate park to park travel in the southwest and make possible motor travel between tile the north and south rims without ion long detours through adjoining states the problem of furnishing an adequate supply of water and electrical enery energy was successfully met by the construe oda 4 und 1 W 4 je N M 40 fla itce M de pmj tron 93 0 H CITY hot r A 4 YGE hc I 1 ja ON our 1 14 1 I 1 rd Z ell 0 ayi A ZI K V dijt kaw 1 joni TD V j I 1 1 showing location of zion national park cedar breaks map of the so uth western corner of road utah under construction from Spring lale to mt carmel is the 27 mile and bryce canyon shown by the box dotted line tion on oil bright angel creek of a hydroelectric cal plant and a pumping plant by means of which the water from roaring springs creek is lifted against a static head of feet to storage tanks on the rim of the canyon two t trail r a i I 1 developments were of outstanding importance one was the completion and opening of the kaibab trans canyon trail affording fordin spectacular views views and reaching from rim to rim the other was the transfer of title to the famous bright angel trail from coconino county to the federal government after several years of controversy immediately upon the taking over of the trail by park authorities the collection of the 1 toll was discontinued the new kaibab suspension bridge the construction of the new kaibab suspension bridge bricle e was an all important link in the kaibab trans canyon trail this bridge unlike the old one which is replaced is free from vibration and will accommodate an all entire string of pack or saddle animals ani nials at one time formerly in in using the old swinging bridge it was necessary for tourist parties part es to dismount in crossing the alii animals nals being taken over one at a tin time le this caused con congestion estion and delay at one of the hottest points on oil the trans canyon trip steps are being taken to enlarge zion national park in southern utah upon recommendation of the national park service seven sections of land were withdrawn from the public domain by executive order pending a study as to the advisability of adding these lands to the park there is still a further area not yet withdrawn that should be considered for addition to zion included in this area are some interesting 6 cliff dwellings as well as spectacular canyon country new v vistas istas and regions of wilderness beauty with cedar city as the base the three parks are all easily reached by good roads but in each case the route must be retracted re via cedar city to shorten the distance to the grand can oae VF 7 av 4 taw 4 f k MIr rBRA panorama of zion canyon looking east the dotted line shows the course of the highway tunnel |