Show Visitors at Arches Show ShowBig Big Increase in 1946 1946Travel Travel records for th the travel travelseason travelseason season of 1946 which closedSept Sept dosedlSept 30 show that 720 dosedl cars carscontammg carscontaining contammg 2129 people vIsited visitedArches national monument dur durmg during mg the period penod Oct 1 1945 to toSept toSept Sept 30 1946 accord ng to Rus Russell Russell sell L Mahan custodian of the themonument themonumentThirty [ Thirty five states were rep represented represented [ resented among the visitors as aswell aswell [ well as the District Dlstnct of Colum Columbla Columbia bla Alaska Canal Zone Can Canada Canada ada and France The bulk of the thetravel thetravel travel was from Utah with 287 287cars 287cars cars and 924 people but Callfor Callforma California ma came in 111 strong with 129 cars carsand 361 people and Colorado Coloradohad Coloradohad had 88 : cars 1ars and 292 pepopleThIS pepople pepopleThis This was the best travel year yearS1l1ce yearsince S1l1ce 1941 when there were were3786 3786 ' vsitors V'sltors Vsltors to the areaTravel area areaTravel Travel to Arches during dur1l1g the thepast thepast past season would have been beenmuch beenmuch much heavier had the entrance entranceroad entranceroad road been passable at all tImes tImesAs timesAs As a result of washouts the road roadwas roadwas was closed for ior considerable per per10ds perlods 10ds |