Show A Soad to the Great Natural Dean Byron Cummings of the University of in the southeastern part of Utah are found some of the great natural wonders of the Here nature seems to have performed all sorts of capers and to have taken supreme joy in leaving the earth's crust seamed and scarred and tilted and folded into all sorts of fantastic One can hardly realize the towering structures reared by the mighty forces in the interior of the earth and finished by the slow chiseling of wind and sand could so rival the handiwork of Here the real giants of the forces of have more than Ossa upon and stormed the abode of the gods the blue ether of Along the southern borders of the state stretches a vast mesa that rises thousands of feet above sea At one time evidently portions of this region were covered another mesa that rose i s 9 I t several hundred feet above the level of the present This of vast made higher mesa was horizontal strata of red As time moved on with its ever surging currents of and wind and tits driving blasts of all of the softer portions of these highest sandstone deposits have been carried down to the present mesa while the that were hard enough to withstand this ever-recurring tack of the elements still stand out as huge giants of Worn into all sorts of fantastic they rear their turrets and spires above you to the height of from five to eight hundred As is reflected back from the rich reds and light of these battlemented you can readily imagine you are standing among the ruined castles of a mighty race of giants who once stalked over this land at This is Monumental a more than of the Here nature has shown the artist and The rich warm colors of the sandstone cliffs at mid-day and the violet haze gathered about them as they pass into the shadows of makes pictures' that can never be effaced from the memory of the About fifty-five miles northwest of Bluff in White and its the are found the three greatest natural bridges in A number of others the celebrated natural bridge of Virginia are found near by and in other parts of San Juan but these the feet and the feet high and and the feet high and are striking specimens of nature's bridge Their lines are so graceful and their proportions so massive that the beholder stands before them in wonder and The- rich coloring of and the forms of the cliffs round about give these bridges a setting rarely equalled-and the ruins of numerous cliff villages perched in the towering cliffs on every hand lend an- air of mystery that caries one back into the goblin days of Here is food for the student man whether be he a. an an anthropologist a pr a mere teller oi tales of the time when mankind Here the world was sure make pilgrimages and pay fitting to the Giver of Beautiful and The United States government has oft a tract of land that includes these bridges as a or small so that they are sure to be preserved in their natural state for the benefit of all Many are already inquiring hew they may reach these great natural and scores of people from eastern cities would have gone there last had been able to drive there in a A horseback of fifty-five or sixty miles is a for most and you are compelled to tell them that this is before them after they have eighty miles' in a stage to they conclude they will wait for easier There is now good wagon road for a few built by the citizens of and for part of the distance over the very little work would be needed to put the old wagon in good shape for An expenditure of a thousand dollars would good road from V money into the who would this 1 wonder and Below Bluff about near where aJi good oil haveS a gorge where a m feet will carry a bridge This would easy route to and the oil fields' ana f lands lying south of the The most direct route to road for all that rich fields that are sit J opened there is throng is blocked by the a that bed almost nightly and in 13 hours forms eddies and sands where they known A place list good today abandoned ami 1 you may have crossed safety m the ni i could stand or swim the til It is a treads stream and the people Continued on page 13 I 7 10 endanger life and f they da in endeavor- of the oilfields and ll oi Monumental increase of trade Rio Grande compensate for Lt of abridge across the Juan at the point I have in-La Let us wake up and de-Lour open up our Ls let the world know and toy of which they have never The state a bridge is built across the Juan and that a good wagon to is constructed to the Nat-el |