Show 2 PARKS NO CONNECTED BY WONDER ROAD Mt Carmel Highway Marvelous Fe Feat t. t of I Engineering One of the wO wonder highways o of tho wor world oria c has haf Just been cen completed In southern In-southern Utah which connects connects' two n national parks and will draw draw- laW thousands Of ot people to Utah This Is Is' is tho Mt Carmel Corm l highway tunnel which Is 18 cut through solid soUd tock rock for for- mor moro morp then than ono and one eighth miles mites and at Lt an Ln clay elevation of ot moro mora than two th thousand feet teet A ck highway which elevates cle s tho the motor 1st be I cd h has seven lifts JUts This bore through th the mountain connects Zion and Br Bryce cp national parks and will reduce the present mileage be be- be twe tween n t to 88 miles Innes The dis dis- dis lance tanca anc from Zion national park to the Grand Grand' ca canyon which is now miles will boo bo cut to miles s. s The Tho tunnel I Is d Ii way two ono one and I lighted b by electricity 1 It is 16 feet 1 et high and 24 feet teet wide so o that tho the larger motor motol vehicles may turn turnaround turnaround around In it and it 11 is is' intended to permit motor vehicles to pa pass ri each other othe with room to pare T are aro five o galleries or windows in ono one side of or the tunnel wh ro one may stop in his car land and look ook out from n rf sheer er cliff clift more than one thousand feet high hIgl on 01 tho great colorful formations of oC Zion na na nal park INVOLVED PROBLEMS This great tunnel involved some new y problems in engineering which It is said no engineer ever before betor had to meet No o human being had ha ever been bean at either portal vortal of ot the tha great bore boro until the plans were prepared d no nor had anyone anone ever oVer scaled tho mountain through w which tho the tunnel goes goes' goes The Tue line IIno of the tunnel had to be he b the engineers from a a. foot path at tho base bas of the tho cliff cUr feet teet bel below bela w where the tunnel was was- to be run It wa wax was fo found nd that that'S It k wa was impractical to start the tunnel at either cither cm end The engineers started in the puddle after erecting a it scaffold which look looke d l Uko an eagles eagle's ne nest t and from froni frani d a point determined up upon n began drilling drill drill- Jug InS in ill either direction from the point I t o on the tho tunnel proper Other points were drilled and and finally tl tIC the ri he headings dings were brought together fr in ln a a. consecutive o tunnel VIEWS PRESENTED From the galleries may be bo seen seen natural al panoramic views that have IJ no IW O c ual in the W world rl 1 Heavy ma ma- balustrades 5 guard the openings open open- ings or 01 windows so that they are Entirely safe a Every move move made froth from 1 the bottom o of ot the canyon to the portals of the tunnel and every everyone one ol ot of the p panoramic views give sive gl onea a thrill that cannot be tie had any any- where The Tho grade grado of ot the highway which carries one UP imp thousands thousand of or feet not in any liny ny case I 6 per perc c cant o eL 1110 most t of ot the tho dIm dIm- tance ance It Is Js 5 per er cent or Je less lema I. I The summit under which the tunnel passes Is Js around feet teet There is not not not-a a foot toot of ot thIs road that is not interesting from the floor loor of the can canyon on road load to the top Tourists who havo been all aU allover over the world declare that there thero is nothinG anywhere that will compare com cam pare pare with it 11 Looking about bout the thc P peaks l is reached by bythe th tunnel is seen n Dl Dianas Diana's throne which Js 13 Is one ne of ot the themos most mos curious as it is the m mOt most t. t Interesting in interesting In- In rock in tho the wonderland of 01 southern Utah To construct h tunnel Involved of f f r r rock cl and dirt and of or this q quantity yards were classified as solid soUd rock Two of ot solid soUd ro rock rock- kj one 70 10 the theother other 75 feet were ero m made de and a I. I concrete arch an over Pine Pino creek as se cral smaller bridges over washes had to bo be made matico maticon It n has been said that Irrespective of its setting among amonS the mammoth gems of ot Zion national park palk the road Itself Is a n. scenic attraction It 1 rises riSe from the the park hark ark o op opposite op- op the registration station t tAking taking tak tAk- k ing lug off oft up tho the drainage of or Pine Pitie Pinecreek I creek winding on a n. series of or switch backs a a. distance of or four miles to th the west portal of the tho big bore boro where it passes pa out of or tho the road and andi i proceeds for fOT another three and on one one- h half miles mile still sUI climbing mind and nd with the exception of or the tunnel of i feet this distance I Iii trav traversed over overa a a. tho sk sky arching the roc rock wills on both sides sides' finally to connect with the western p of or the tIle 1 project loj t of ot the state It wasa was a Do t tremendous s und undertaking an and its its' successful Stul completion Is a a. menu manu ment mont to Its Its' builders rs |