Show Utah's Great Natural From a University of Utah Bulletin by Dean Byron from last Good water is quite abundant in that immediate but grass is scarce and the region so rough that it has been little frequented even by The setting of wild scenery and make it one o interesting the most attractive spots on the On the northern slope of the Navajo mountain are two other smaller each ot which would be attractive in were it not overshadowed by the great arch of I The gorge through which the San Juan flows for miles in that vicinity is a grand canyon of the Colorado on a little I smaller Evidently there once has been a white man's camp at the junction of this canyon with the Colorado but no traces of the Caucasians were found elsewhere in this or in the other The ruins of a few very primitive cliff dwellings are found in the caves of the cliffs that form the 1 The walls of these gorges and in the shadow of stand the remains of what appears to be an ancient stone But the occasional bark of the coyote and the mournful call of the dove are the only sounds that now re-echo among these silent In the following Wetherill guided A. 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Townsend of and his sister to this and to Miss Townsend undoubtedly belongs the distinction of having been the first white woman to penetrate this wild region to gaze on nature in all the grand simplicity she there For men and women who enjoy horseback riding and a trip to from or to the White Canyon bridges from Bluff is not a terrible The outdoor life in such an invigorating atmosphere the and interesting scenes continually spread before the very difficulties to be overcome repay one on the capital invested with an interest that compounds In under the guidance of John Williams of we visited a natural bridge in the edge of Grand county that deserves to be classed with those of San Juan county and counted among the great natural wonders of our This is a graceful arch with a total elevation of 62 feet and a span of feet long and 49 feet It stands beside the cliff on the western edge of Pritchett valley and Balanced has been fashioned under somewhat different conditions from those prevailing during the construction of the natural bridga already Here there has been no narrow zigzag canyon through which waters surged in former fot quite a large some three miles long and from to one-half a mile On the sides of this irregular basis rise rugged cliffs that jut into the valley here and there ii sharp points and rounded The upper surfaces of far cliffs stretch back in bare undulating fields of mud eroded by wind and Caves have been hollowed out if these cliffs at various points and numerous natural reservoir are found scattered on the surface of these bare rocks when Needle fl places have been found in the or whirling eddies former ages have ground out Some of these are m shallow while others reach down twenty feet and more through the Some are irregular and in their while others look as though they had been sunk by some Titanic drill when the gods were playing with the earth's A few drain considerable areas of the and in time of storm many a rushing torrent loses i their In a few instances such a reservoir has been foed directly behind a cave that was being hollowed out of the side of the As the walls of the cave gradually evaded backward farther and farther into the the was sunk deeper and enlarged little by little until its bottom broke through into the back of the Then the formerly gathered into the reservoir and surged though the cave and lost themselves in valley Every downpour of rain and every driving wind carried the work a little farther until the former roof of the cave became an When the reservoir held the waters until its depth about equalled that of the then the gracefully curving arch of the cave became a real bridge as in the case of the fine arch already which we have christened the Ute name for water In two others near the walls gave way when the bottom of the cistern was near the top of the and as a result the arches appear to be only partially hewn from the In across Ostrich narrow canyon from bridge the bottom of a cis-tera 50 feet long and 25 feet wide has broken into the top of Caye 90 feet from front to back and thus formed an immense flight to this large rock-hewn which we named The mouth of the cave is an excellent arch wide and 40 feet high that looks out over the valley a shelf of rock 50 feet above the base of the to between the western spurs of the Elk is a arch that seems to have been constructed Elet e manner just but severe snowstorms prevented our examining and photographing it when we were there in A short distance from the arches in Pritchett a that deserves mention in connection with this interesting stands beside the bold It is a shaft about feet high and 10 feet through at the It is remark- Block able that so slender a column has so long withstood the buffet-ings of The best trail out of Pritchett valley leads one around to-the head of Pritchett gulch past a strangely fashioned remnant of the christened Ostrich and a point of jutting-cliff in which a small bridge has been formed by the breaking and falling of large sections of the strata The view down Pritchett gorge and the well worn cliffs beyond give one-a little idea of the interesting features that appear on every side as one threads his way down this to the and along that beautiful stream flowing between lofty of red sandstone to the land of and and of real Frank Hall very kindly took the time to show us a peculiarly balanced rock that stands on the edge of Wilson mesa about 15 miles east of The formation is greatly eroded along the edges of this mesa a lofty tableland extending along the western slopes of the La Sal At this particular point a section of the cliff has been worn into the form of a graceful pear that seems to stand poised on its It is impossible to get near enough to the rock to actually measure but from the nearest approach it seems to be fully 15 feet from its top to the bottom of the pedestal and about 10 feet in its longest while the stem or pedestal is not more than eighteen inches to twenty-four inches in It probably will not stand many years As one looks from this mesa out across Little Castle valley and then lets his eye make a sweep of this whole he can well understand that as well as ancient has been a battle ground for the gods and the giants the forces of the earth and the i Pritchett McDonald's Price While visiting the Printing company the other day Ave picked up a beautiful 44 page and cover booklet or price list of J. 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