Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-12-04 | Page 13 | People and Things

re People I 0 pie and T Things h i n 5 By FRED B BAGBY BY IP Portal of Life Did you know that the ril Ui bridge down in Utah's wondered wonder wonder- ed md San Juan county was according HopI Indian lore the portal of ofle le e and portal of death d-cath through E thc Indian spirits of the happy MIng Ung grounds emerged to take on onnan pan nan form and through which they em lamed after their mortal visits eke ke John Johnson Johbson on U Uncle de Sams Sam's cus cus- of the natural bridge lent is authority for this interesting Jt Of information and a lot more its ts 15 about these natural l wonders had Jad ad the pl pleasure the thc other day tearing Bearing Zeke spin some interest- interest Tarns arns about the old Indian names mes mese le e c bridges what th these e freaks of ire r meant to to the superstitious In In- how th they y were discovered by and how they how they got their peat u t names name S S h tribe ie the remnant of bleh b SlOw hOw found the on high II ef Arizona in ares ages past I bUd ea the territory far up lip to it lilA Uth and on one of th their lr blab habl- I- I Lt t. t 11 the natural bridge reo re- IIIi 1 i Thet Indians Zeke told Believed that thai the spirits of ii I II I c came rac from the IH through h a a. great reat un gate ate when they en en- eel bodies for a span of III the e earth rth ey ai aho believed cd that when an In n n died filed his hj spirit returned to the er world through this same un un- r round gate r. r HoLs also so believed that spir- spir had displeased the Great Were condemned fon to enter enterS bodI We S J ot of lower animals Beof Be- Be of th of-th this of the old would cJ not cat eat SPirits that the fish harbored bored of the cUt cliff dwellers rs who believed to have Incurred thc the i of I J gods t S S be z e IndIan 1 name Dame for the thc AU bridge C Was Sipapu which e W opt P tongue meant portal ze e. e The Edwin bridge wa was known as the t I or mound bridge bridIe Dr a e fro from the B that LUat tiiT p. p large 41 mound a appears rJ the l top P of the structure Cre The Idge Indiana Indian the e Caroline n the ine i Kachina which ant dancing tin girl TM bridge I. I rw Ita fact Indian appellation appell PP a n from Ai that o on n the thc formation the be abutments r re icare are ancient of the structure PiCtographs of r gIrls tIby t by Probably traced trued th the forefathers forefather of 01 the Discovery Discovery- of the natural bridges by the white man is credited credited to Al a cattleman and md rancher in San Juan county who chanced upon them hem in 1907 while riding range When the report of their discovery reached cached Salt lIt Lake City the late Colo- Colo nel el Edw Edwin n F F. Holmes financed a trip of f exploration to the region and sent Harry larry L. L A A. A Culmer no noted led Utah arIst artist ar ar- to make sketches The late Burl Armstrong Salt Lake City newspaper newspaperman man lan got wind of the di discovery covery about the he same time and with true newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper enterprise showed up upon on the thc scene about the same saine time Culmer named the bridges and the thc unnamed can canyon ori in which the Edwin bridge was located locate he called Armstrong Armtrong Arm Arm- strong trong canyon canon in honor of ot BurL One brIdge ridge was named mimed for Colonel Holmes The Caroline bridge was named amed for the the- wife wiCe of f Al discoverer of ot the wonders The Thc third bridge ridge was named for Mr Culmer's wife Augusta CIS Zeke Zeke says that people who think his us job of taking care of the bridges bridgess is s easy east dont don't know how much trou trou- ble le he has keeping people from writing writ ing Log or carving their names on them or trying to steal mementos