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Show -ISTATE HEADS m 1N-MT. iClMELRBllIE Large Crowd Gathers for Dedication Ceremonies ia Mile-Long Tunnel on Na- turn's Birth Anniversary" The Zion-Mount Carrnrl j highway and its 5600-foot long tunnel were dedicated 1 1 Friday morning. It was an ; Independence day celebration that was without parallel, even though the whole land Friday was celebrating tho . anniversary of the nation's birth. I This one was unique because vtov-J vtov-J er 'before has completion of such ; a highway through a mountain j been a feature of such an ooca- v sion. i It was unique this year because ! of the presence of so many gov-j gov-j ernors of commonwealths, including includ-ing four of the original 13 states ' and the official representatives cf j the governors of two more present, and above all it was unique because ; of its setting. As a part of the pageant presented pre-sented at the park camp grounds on the evening of the third, under un-der the direction of Jos. W. McAllister, Mc-Allister, the following group jsuir the Pioneer's Hymn, "Come, Come, j Ye Saints": Mr. and Mrs. 'Vfiiu j Brooks, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. T. tir-I tir-I ris, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. MaxiS ! Sproul, MVs. Arthur Taxman. P. j A. Reber, Mona Rbor and Lc j Gene Morris. Following the pageant Mr. McAllister Mc-Allister lead in community sinking sink-ing of America. While the audience assembled at the tunnel Friday morning, Mr. McAllister led in the singing or & number of conuminity snnres. among them The Utah TralL With his male chorus of thirty members the following numbers were rendered on the regular deih calory pioyram: Anvil Chorus, from Faust. The American Ode, by KoimU. especially featured for the occasion. occa-sion. Concluding the program the clu-rus clu-rus rendered "Oh, Ye Mountains High." Sitting within the tunnel at the : commodious gnllery and portal were several thousand persons, who had come by automobile from this section for the occasion. TJmto was music by the St. Oeorw; choir. When one raised his ryes lie pazed out from the cool drpU) cf the gnllery on tho lowcrimr cast temple of the Virgin, bathi-d in sunlight symbolic of the clcnu. impressive majesty of nature as found in the national playi;nmml of Utah and northern Arizona. Parks Diiwtor MiwAiT of WrmmiT!. E. T. Sooycn, ns suixrliitemleiiir of the two Utah national parkv Zion and Bryre canyon, was liev.t. and presented Horace M. Albrigril director of tlic national park t-vice, t-vice, as mHf.lrr of rrmnimirx. invocation wils 1)y Ireldcnt Ifrbexr i J. Grant, of the L. D. H. ctiurcii (C.'ontiiiin.d on paiee 41 ZION HIGHWAY DEDICATED fContinued from page 1) Albright, in an introductory talk, told something; of his experience ex-perience with governors' conferences, confer-ences, and paid tribute to Governor Gov-ernor Eamberger, host of Utah's list governors' conference, and the work he had accomplished. Mr. Albright also paid tribute to Governor Spry, as being among the first to bring about the development devel-opment which resulted in Zion canyon can-yon being 'made a national park. The director paid particular attention, at-tention, and won a round of applause ap-plause from the people of southern south-ern Utah, as he paid tribute to Stephen Ste-phen T. Mather, his predecessor in office, who died this year. Mr. Mather would have been 63 years old Friday. His last official trip had been to see the progress of construction at Zion in the late months of 1928. Roitl Held Symbol cf V. S. Principle. Mr. Albright mentioned in succession suc-cession Representative Cramton of Michigan and Senator Smoot of Utah for the part they had taken in getting appropriations through for the park, and Thomas H. Mac-Donald, Mac-Donald, chief of the United States bureau of public roads, and his engineers in designing and constructing the new highway. Reference was made by Mr. Albright Al-bright to the part taken by the Union Pacific system in this development de-velopment work. Cavl R. Gray, president of the U. P. had told .something of the details of how so much had been accomplished here in such brief time, at the meeting the night before, and this was confirmed, with additional details, de-tails, by Mr. Albright. It was allotted to Mr. MacDon-jUd, MacDon-jUd, however, to mention those who, he said, should be on the honor roll for this work. The road, said Mj MacDonald, is symbolic of a promising principle in gov ernment operation, that cf cooperation co-operation among the departments, 1 and also with other agencies of government, and with private interests. in-terests. There was no compulsion, . ! and no reason at all, except co- .-.peraticn. said T.'r. MacDonald. I '.vhy the parks service should turn over to the bureau of public roads I some $1,500,000 to spend. Mr. MacDonald mentioned the I cooperation, of Governor George H. Dern cf Utah, of the state road commission, of Arizona and its highway department in completing the link wan the Grand Canyon National park, and especially Governor Gov-ernor John C. Phillips, who has shown more interest in such matters mat-ters than his predecessors. I-.e named the contractors, the Nevada Contrattir.j company, for the tunnel section and the 4 miles of switchback in the approach; Reynolds and Whiting, contractors on the bridge; Ora Eundy on the surfacing cf the tunnel end the approaches, and Raleigh and Lang on the state section of 16 miles, connecting with the eight miles in the park. He mentioned also two men who had been accidentally killed in the course cf construction, Mr. McLean, Mc-Lean, killed by falling rock, and Mr. Morrison, who died as a result re-sult of inhaling gases frcm a pow- ' cler explosion. ; : Fiii'.'h Introduces Mr. Finch, in turn, b if ore turn- : in5 to his prepared speech, Intro- ; ; iuced to trie crowd Henry Oakley ai:d Franklin Davis of his office, , I who had charge cf bridge and ! office work on the project, and . also Allen Jones, now on a proj-jest proj-jest in Washington, who had charge of the detail work and con-! con-! c,uered. the difficulties of surveying survey-ing the tunnel with such success ( tbat at no place were the workers work-ers a more than three inches out ' cf line with one another in mak-j mak-j ing their bores meet. 1 Mr. Finch said the state sprfinn 1 of 13 miies cf roadway had cost ' $436,000. The eight and one-half miles of road within the park would cost when completed, it was estimated, $1,440,000. Thrs is still I some work to 'be done cn one of the bridges over Pine creek. Mr. Finch paid especial tribute j to Howard C. Means, former chief I engineer for the state highway de-! de-! partmer.t, who was prests.': on the trip. Back in 1922, Mr. Finch and Mr. Means made a trip lasting several days, and approached the barrier from both the east and west sides. It was then that the plan for the tunnel was first conceived, con-ceived, which in a different location loca-tion was finally carried out and proved to be the solution of a difficult highway problem. The selection of the route for this road was not an easy matter, said Mr. Finch. The only road theretofore existing between Rock-ville Rock-ville on the west and Kana'o on the east, lay by a devious route through an uninhabited section of Arizona and there was little prospect pros-pect of any funds for its improvement. improve-ment. Thirty miles to the north there is a road between routes 8D and 91, but it rises to an elevation eleva-tion of 10,000 feet and is blocked by snow fcr at least seven months in a year. The solution lay in finding a way through these cliffs which surround the. Virgin River valley. There were only two feasible feas-ible rcstes and after complete surveys sur-veys had been made of both, this route was selected as the shortest and cheapest. Surveys Covared Four-Year Period The investigations and surveys covered a period of four years and the work involved many tedious and dangerous hours. The c-r.ri-neers climbed and descended impossible im-possible cliffs and, by means of ropes, waded in water to their waists for hours at a time, and endured temperatures ranging from zero to 126 degrees. Vet when the surveys had been completed ' and actual construction b"?an so j accurate were the measnremet-' j that it was possible to project this . tunnel through these cliffs and ! reach the upper end wi:h a vari-; vari-; ation of less than one-tenth of a foot from the designated point, j This route. 25 miles in length, from Zion canyon to Mt. Carmel, shows what can be done by co-i co-i operative effort. The sixteen and ' cne-half mile section outside the j park was built by the state high-; high-; way department and - the United ' States bureau of public roads as a federal aid project. The cost of this part of the work was about $453,000. of which the state paid about $98,000 and the federal government gov-ernment about $358,000. The eight and one-half mile section within the park was built entirely with federal funds from the appropriations for the national park service. The plans were prepared pre-pared by' the bureau of public roads "and contracts were award-l award-l ed by the secretary of the interior. The construction was under the supervision of the bureau of public roads, with the cooperation of the park superintendent and engineers of the landscape division of the park service. Last Contract Nears Completion. Three contracts for the work have boen finished and the fourth and last major contract, that for the bridges which you saw this morning, is nearing completion. The Nevada Contracting company, of Fallon, Nevada, completed the grading and the tunnels, Cra Bun-dy Bun-dy of Ogden laid the concrete pavement in the tunnel and the oil mixed surface on the road between be-tween the west end of the work and the tunnel; Whitney and Reynolds of Springville, are building build-ing the bridges. To these firms great credit is due for the way in which the work has been handed. There are many unusual features fea-tures to the work. Ihe winding' approach road up the slopes of Pine1 Creek canyon, the bridges, the masonry walk, the unique drainage structures. But the out- j 'pJj V Zii r --;a . " J r - ' s t. cjr &r - ' , V, , f 1 SCENES AT ZION-MT. CAKMEt. IHGITWAY DEDICATION JULY FOUBTU. Phokw Courtesy Salt Lake Tribune standing point of interest is the tunnel where you now are, 5600 feet long, 22 feet wide and 16 feet high. There are six openings similar to this, affording light, ventilation and marvelous scenic views. The cost of the tunnel complete com-plete as you see it was $503,000 and the cost of the eight and one-half one-half miles within the i-ark will be about $1,440,000. Ileiiry IL Blood Introduced to Crowd. After formally accepting the road for the park service from the bureau bu-reau of public roads, Mr. Albright introduced Henry H. Blood, chairman, chair-man, and W. J. Parker, member of the stats road commission, and said that Preston G. Peterson, the other member, should have been there. He also paid tribute to assistance given by the late Henry W. Lunt as predecessor to Mr. Parker on the commission. He also introduced H. S. Kerr, present chief engineer of the state commission, and told something of the personal attention at-tention given by Governor Fern to the project. Governor Dern was the final speaker. He prefaced his talk by mention of the comfortable and picturesque location for the ceremonies. cere-monies. He said that there was no criticism among the governors' conference members, who have emphasized states' rights during the last few days, to cooperation with the national parks service. The parks are the property of the whole nation and the west is glad to welcome the people of the nation here to inspect and use their property, he said. The program was interspersed with music by the St. George male chorus, under the direction of J. Wm. McAllister. Second of Formal Exercises in Park. The ceremonies at the tunnel or! Friday morning were the second of more or less formal exercises held in the park in 12 or 15 hours. Thursday night, at the public automobile camp, President Gray gave a talk on recent park developments; de-velopments; Governor Christian-son Christian-son " of Minnesota gave a stirring address on the text "2 Pluribus Unum," with a Fourth of July tinge, and Anthony W. Ivins, of the first presidency of the L. D. S. church, and a pioneer of this region, told something of his personal per-sonal reminiscences and discussed for the benefit of ' the governors some of the historical and underlying under-lying features of the Latter-Day Saints religion. Mr. Gray said, that what development devel-opment has been accomplished in the Utah and northern Arizona, parks, and in making them accessible, acces-sible, has been due to cooperation of all agencies concerned, the parks and the roads, also congressional leaders; the state authorities of Utah and Arizona, local officials and others, as well as the U. P. President Gray a-lso told of the cooperation which had been freely given by the L. D. S. church officials of-ficials and by the Salt Lake chamber cham-ber of commerce. He said that the Union Pacific had not gone into the matter very willingly, but the other agencies had been invited first and declined, whereupon the Union Pacific took the matter up. No Monotony on Trip, He Said. He said as a result of such cooperation co-operation of all agencies, the governors gov-ernors would see, on their present pres-ent trip, a completed system of roads, connecting up the wonders of the three great parks. The latter, lat-ter, he pointed out, are all different, dif-ferent, each from the other, and there is no note of monotony on the trip. Mr. Gray also told of some of the engineering accomplishments in bringing water from Roaring springs up to the rim at the Grand canyon national park, under un-der a head of 4000 feet. The pipe line is about three miles long, and the pressure is 1900 pounds to the square inch. The line had been located by engineers who were constantly risking their lives to put it in place, and in one place there is a perpendicular rise of 400 feet, where the line had to be attached at-tached to the canyon walls by brackets. Water for the south rim of the canyon, he said, is hauled 90 miles by railway, but such a solution of the problem on the north rim was impossible. The penstock for the hydro-electric to operate the pumps is itself 2300 feet long, Mr. Gray said. Goversvr Dem Dediates Route In dedicating the Zion-Mt. Carmel Car-mel highway, Governor Dern said: "It is particularly appropriate that this great highway should be dedicated to the use of the people of the United States on our country's birthday. "It is also fitting that thi3 ceremony cere-mony should be held in the presence pres-ence of the governors of so many of Utah's sister states. Their presence pres-ence here is emblematical of the interest of all the states in this project. It io as if the people of the whole nation were here this morning to see this marvelous undertaking un-dertaking placed at their service. "There may be differences of opinion among the western states n regard to the national policy of rrrer.ing their lnnd and minerals from private entry, but there Is no difference of opinion among them in regard to the national parks. These areas of outstanding beauty are chiefly valuable fcr their recreational uses. "We do not need them nor want them a3 playgrounds for our people peo-ple alone. We are happy that they have been set aside for the enjoyment en-joyment of all who may be attracted at-tracted by their charms. They are the show places of our nation, in which every American holds a sh.are cf ownership. While Zion National park and Bryce Canyon happen to be situated within the boundaries of Utah, yet we are proud to share our ownership of these natural marvels with all the rest of cur fellow Americans, and we say to therh: Cerne out and inspect your property. You will be proud cf it and your pride cf ownership own-ership will make you a better, more patriotic American in the best sense. Hoad Links Three StapetidoiM Spectacles. "This highway has been constructed con-structed for the purpose of linking link-ing up Zion National park, Bqyce Canyon national park and the north rim of the Grand Canyon cf the Colorado, three of the most stupendous spectacles on the North American continent. "Zion National park has sometimes some-times been referred to as Yosem-H Yosem-H done in oil. I trust you have all experienced the sense of hush and awe and mystery that comes over one as he looks up at Uu Great White Thro"' J from the Temple of Sx-toward Sx-toward Angel's J gloomy gorge ix' red and white high on either side, 6J der the Indians regar-j-' spirit land, to b: er.:er-- -fear and veneration. ' -When you yon national pari y - entrancing fa:ryaj spires, towers and inmost in-most exquisite c carved by nature y, , sembles lace. S cathedrals-the eye c;- all cut everywhere- ' ,. the wide world can ; I thing like it- If ' sensuous beauty . ! the memory ; V' ! the Giver of all V gilts. Mother's Mem01? i Landed by I- "Drive 60 m.les comparable tff-largest tff-largest tract o y. the United S T deer as J-to J-to Bright AM'r-S; Royal on the n ,, Grand cj;A if the majesty of tW must indeed j duties of - ,,; "In rd I rational ra-tional Pte r'-;, A |