Show LEES FERRY BRIDGE MEANS MUCH TO SOUTHERN mm for fan years the old perry ferry operated by coconino county across the colorado river at leos lees ferry has been a bogy bear to tourists traveling from southern utah across the line into arizona three years ago a party of five and their car way was swept off of the ferry by the breaking of a cable and while fortunately a man in a small boat wa was s able to rescue the tourists their car and equipment was never recovered now comes word that the arizona legislature has passed a bill ting to defray part of the ex pense of a bridge across the Colo colorado Fado river at that point for which tile the government has already appropriated the spanning of the colorado river with a steel arch feet above the river bed just across the utah line in arizona will mean an increase in the number of jurists passing ahr through ough this thia pr part rt of the state of at least twenty five per cent it will mean that the tourists can then visit zion lion national park and bryce canyon and then continue on oyer KI good roads ral ads to the petrified forest and other points of interests in arizona it will give A a short cut to the south and be a c con on Pe renting eting link with the many bornio ll 11 families from utah that are now ye residing siding in saint johns snowflake and ajl colonies in the gila river valley of arizona the majority pf af this road is now all year roun round d highway construction of which has been made possible po by forest service aid the state of ariona has added funds to complete the road to the state line and utah with the he aidi of fede federal raland and forest service funds has already completed passable roads e ads the noi northern thern points jt H is ii thought that the near future f will frd find his artery adall an all year round highway of great importance in the national high ay system |