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Show 3 . iZt 4 ' -- :: v. -- :' ' .V ' 'V - ' : - ? r p w fSl Vim. p-- fr v, I .. - r; v owS1-- f . ,ij 'i ! , m .. , nJS a' - - - s ' vw rv 'vw aiiiinimiii , jf V V' f A ; r irtfti inr - .'.VWPnv 'YTi Ml p ' v &;& . v.6,-,&- lvjr ?.r )a mxiVitf&yfftfir' h V wwt , ? JU v4- ''' .V ; v Vc s' ss.-- , ' 'V- y New Courthouse Addition Proposed at Monticello San Juan county's courthouse being used for office space. Desks remodeling to are even located in the entrance add 6,348 square feet of floor space, lobby. doubling the present available According to the Board of Coun- ty Commissioners, neither the tax pace. The addition will be made to the levy nor the bonded indebtedness ast side of the present courthouse, of the county will be increased by nd will be two stories high, con- the building program. Expense of taining new offices on the first its construction will be paid from floor and second floor, plus a new increased receipts from county county jail and law enforcement taxes which previously had not been anticipated. Offices on the second floor. Fetzer and Fetzer of Salt Lake The new jail will have three are architects of the proposed completely separate custodial sec- City new wing, which will as nearly as tions, one for juveniles, a modern match features in the presteel cell block for adult males, possible nd adequate quarters for female ent structure. prisoners. When the new structure is com- So pleted, present serious shortage of Office space will have ended. With Increased activity of mining in busitan Juan County, county it infrequently fails (as ness has increased until every in Although of cases in Colorado), a available nook and corner of the there couple is a tremendous natural force present courthouse at Monticello is that keeps mountains right where they are. Geologists refer to it by a mouthful of word: Isostatic equilibriAttracts Tourists um. This force is what keeps the Monticello of are those Surrounding many majority huge uncement-- 1 cenic attractions which each year ed rocks piled high in heaps we draw thousands of tourists to the call mountains. Isostatic (coming from the Greek southeastern Utah district There monuments or word meaning re four national equal) balance parks within 75 miles of Monticello. prevents the weight of the mounThe Natural Bridges National tains from sinking them to the Monument is approximately 75 same level as the surrounding miles southwest of Monticello, and prairies and plateaus. Wind, snow and ice are concontains the three largest natural bridges in the world. The first stantly chipping away at the mouneen from the highway is the tains and rivers carry the debris Edwin, smallest of the three, span- to the ocean. According to geolothis added weight ning Armstrong Canon, and is 200 gical principals, feet long. The top, accessible to pushes down on the ocean floor Climbers, is 100 feet high, and the with great pressure, and solid rock bridge is composed of soft salmon far beneath the earths surface is by the pressure directly pink rock with horizontal streaks pushed back beneath the mountains. Vermillion. tfThe Augusta Bridge, largest of so theres a hump on the horizon. Over millions of years the moun(he three, is a deeper red and Indian symbols are carved on its tains lose weight by erosion from ides. It arches 205 feet above their crests, but solid rock moves (the canon floor and is 186 feet right back underneath them. And the prairies nearby remain at long. Last of the bridges is the Car- about the same levei. olina, beautifully proportioned and Fuel oil is consumed in most gracefully spanning the 261 foot canon, 227 feet above its floor. home oil burners without ever The Hopi Indian name of the bridge having been seen or touched by Sipau, which translated freely human beings on its long trip from it means gateway through which the the depths of the earth to the ouls of men come and return." users storage tank. Will soon undergo That's What Keeps 'em Up! o. 3 - " ' hr i i rrNA;, J:- - ' I' x.v-- t ' Vv '' Juan County Utah The Heart Of The Nations Energy Resources WyXV V' FROM THESE RUGGED formations comes uranium ore. Proscanon pectors trudge through narrow canons, scale perilousvaluable walls, endanger their lives daily searching for the yellow mineral. Scene above was taken near Moab, Utah. County Growth Enables Purchase of New Trucks Three badly needed steel machine sheds have been constructed t Montecillo to house county machinery, much of which is new equipment. There are now four patrol cars, where in the past mere was only one. The county ased to own two large old trucks, but now there are six nearly new San four of which are dump trucks. In 1954 three new pick-u- p trucks were added to the fleet of pick-up- s already owned by the county. Among other machinery recently acquired, are three tractor shovels or loaders and a large tractor. ones, BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MONTICELLO, UTAH |
