Show Scenic Wonders in Utah A Road to the Natural Bridges Will Open Region to Thousands of 1 An undeveloped resource is no an inaccessible curiosity or wonder is of no Great good great natural are of but litle value unless they have a road or avenue to the A school is known by its A farm is known by its a sculptor by his an by his and a county and state are known by their Like the arteries of the human the roads are the arteries of commerce and when they are clogged and business comes to a standstill and The Wonders of San Our San Juan county has the greatest natural curiosities in the known the largest monuments the world ever and an a museum equal to the Catacombs of Egypt or the ruins of Babylon or In Grand and San Juan counties vast expanses of the finest dry farming lands in Utah and hundreds of reservoir sites for irrigation There are over one million tons of good ore in sight at the Big Indian Mines in Grand and the finest crude oil on the globe has been discovered there in large Niagara Falls is such a great wonder and curiosity that and representatives of far off tourists from other the educated from all the great colleges of the ministers of the gospel who wish to see God through His wonderful works of and others annually spend millions of dollars and make great sacrifices tp see Niagara And yet if in San Juan the of all natural were to be put into the bottom of the gorge under Niagara its arch would extend seventy-two feet above the brink of the If it were placed up and down the Niagara its arch be several feet above and over the suspension If the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake placed under this the An gel Moroni would have to reach up twelve feet to touch the are two other bridges equal in dimensions to the Then there is Monumental Park in San Juan county a great city of nature's and highly colored perpendicular cliffs that look like curtains of variegated and beautiful colors hanging from the The cliff whose occupants and builders left them centuries are today well preserved even to the roof which have withstood the the the heat of the and the ravages of time without decay for untold What Should Be If the world knew of these greatest of curiosities that nature has yet a million people from different parts of the world would visit San Juan county every A railroad was built to the top of Washington in Massachusetts and one to the top of Pike's Peak in Colorado just to accommodate tourists who wished to vist these two Yet these places are insignificant in comparison with the wonders of San Juan A railroad from Thompson's Springs on the D. R. G. railroad to in San Juan would not only accommodate thousands of but it would open up some of the finest and precious metal the best oil and the most productive and grazing county in the Rocky mountain Representative F. B. Hammond of and Francis Nelson of Bluff are intensely interested in the development of Grand and San Juan Hammond presented the following Petition by nearly every voter m the above to the Utah state legislature for their The Voice of The A petition of the citizens of Grand and San Juan counties to First-That the citizens of Grand and San Juan counties are engaged in the off stock fruit A and vj the road point to Moab and Mesa Grand county and to Monti J La Verdure Springs and Indian Creek in Juan is M That in order to Thompsons from the above points it is necessary to Grand River at J That said Grand rS is too deep to ford and the M other means of crossing the rM is by W That owing to high 19 er during portions of the river is That high M ing ice and sandbars make it to cross the ferry the year and that freight team often delayed for days carrying United States is often delayed from twelve hours I That Moab is the ty seat of Grand county and that Monti J is the county seat of San county and has inhabitant that people of the two ties depend on the route get their supplies market their jK That the United mail for the of La Vert Grayson and Bluff ried over the route from sons to M That there is hauled by wagon from to Moab and vicinity That tons of chandise are annually shipped Grand and San Juan wagon over the Thompsons it That ton pounds of other produce are annually out of the settlements m over the Thompsons m-besides thousands of an cattle and sheW cross the Grand owing inconvenience of cross Grand river at much ing that would otherwise c is now being imMS to the W Colorado points fields at |