| Show BRIDGE ROAD PROJECT FAVORED 1 tho the proposed construction of an automobile road froba bland ing to tho the natural bridges Is gradually gaining favor throughout the state and this increasing sentiment will without doubt in tho the completion of the road at an early date the salt lake tribune in its edition of last monday came out editorially in support of the project as follows tho the automobile tourist will take a watchful interest in tho the effective working of the arrangement recently announced for tho the completion of a highway to the natural bridges in interior ban juan county utah starting from blanding the thirty five miles of comparatively rough country is to be spanned by a passable automobile highway at a comparatively early date under the plans said to have been made by the forest service the state road commission and tho the sari juan county commissioners ain cooperation according to our information the region to be traversed by the proposed highway is in part of the character of df the kaibab gou ou being good for automobile traffic without construction work holeve however r much the greater portion of the route is through rocky defiles and over sandy sands mesas which will require a large amount of dugway grade and other construction work after befog being cleared of cedars and rocks this makes the project one of rather extraordinary proportions though there are said to be a number of unusual scenic points along the bouto of the road it is evident that this road must be built and that at an ail early date considering the increasing desire of the touring public lic to visit out of the way scenery the bridges are among the few great natural phenomena ranking in interest with certain other and more accessible that are already very greatly patronized As natural phenomena these great stone arches are unique in the world of scenery once the way is open there can be little question that the navajo trail from the new mexico colorado country by way of the mesa verde national park into utah through monticello an and moab will become one of the most popular routes for the I 1 C asing stream of nf automobile tito mobile tourists from the prairie and eastern stern states there has long ben been a need for inducing the mesa verde traffic to took to utah for further interest and enjoyment joy ment and no one feature will add so much interest as the opening of the natural bridges national monument by an automobile highway |
