Times Independent | 1959-07-09 | Page 1 | Arches Travel Shows Jump over Last Year

Arches Travel Shows Jump Over Last Year Travel n In hi Arches Arches' national monument for for- forthe or th the first six months 0 of 1959 Juts has as shown an nn Increase of ot lOG per cent according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to 0 word received this week from Su Superintendent D Bates BatesE E E. E Wilson Mr Wilson stated Wednesday that during the first half of this year visitors signed d registration books In the ment meat of this number visited visited vis vis- vis the Arches during the month of or f June This Is around 2000 more visitors than the monument was receiving during the same period last lost year when the tho new entrance road was under under under un un- un- un der final stages of construction In the Natural Bridges na national national na- na monument also aIso under tho Jurisdiction of Superintendent Wilson people visited tho the monument during June to bring the total for the year to 1991 This constitutes a a 64 per cent Increase In travel in the Nat Natural r- r al al Bridges