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Show Canyon Bridge Links Future Glen of Two States By JOAN GEYER (Editor’s Note: 8 Herald Re- Porter Joan Geyer was among SUNDAY HERALD SUNDAY, FEBRUARY ™, 1959 Utah County, Uteh « the on-the-spot observers FriGay when the Glen Canyon Bridge was dedicated.) Underwriters To Hear Garn ,The world’s highest bridge—a silver web of steel linking. the sheer, flaming-red cliffs of the Colorado—was dedicated Friday, making it possible to cross tae chasm without driving 200 miles around by Navajo bridge. As a hissing blow torch cut the Central Utah Underwriters Association will meet Friday, Feb. steel chain across the 1270-foot Glen Canyon bridge, cheers broke forth from a crowd, jamming the flag-decked span. where Stacy Garn, manager of the Provo Office of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., will 27, at noon at China City Cafe, Present were the governors of be guest speaker. Utah: and Arizona; Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner W. A. Dexheimer; Navajo Tribal Coun- cil Chairman Paul Jones; U.S. Bureau of Roads Commissioner Ellis L. Strong; Utah and Arizona legislators, county officials a i water development organiza- tions such as the Aqualantes, Links Futures The new bridge more closely links the future of Utah and Arizona and bridges recent wilder- ness with the industrial development of the west. Mingling with white officials during the dedieation Friday were dignified Navajo elders with long bound hair and blanket squaws with Papooses on cradleboards, together with crew-cut young Navajos in Brooks suits and dainty, modern-dressed girls from Intermountain Indian School. Tribal Chieftain Jones, short, HISTORIC MOMENT RECORDED BY DAILY HERALD CAMERA—Steel chain across Glen Canyon bridge parts under blow torch as, left,-Utah Governor George D. Clyde holds section link closest to Utah border, and next to him, Governor Paul Fannin holds section nearest Arizona side. Far right, with glasses, is U. S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner W. A. Dexheimer. With parting of the chain, tourists could cross chasm of the Colorado instead of driving 200 miles around by Navajo bridge and Kanab. (Photo by Joan Geyer) UTAH COUNTY MEN ATTEND GLEN CANYON BRIDGE DEDICATION—County Surveyor Vern Green, left, and Wesley K offord, Greater Utah Valley, Inc., director, stand on the Page rim of the Glen Canyon, Note newly dedicated bridge in the back- ground and beehive like butte on its west rim. Some 40 aircraft and a fleet of buses brought several thousand spectators to the dedication Friday. . grey-haired, bespectacled, and On the Page side of the river, remote and dangerous Colorado, wearing a conservative -business between the muddy green water, he noted first official expedition suit, recalled that less than two and the 700-foot cliff, vericles are by Major Powell’s party was as years ago Glen Canyon area belonged to the Navajos, and was located in one of the most desolate sections of the reservation. Navajos agreed to trade this land for new rangelands, and hope to operate some of the tourist fa- cilities to dot the new vacationland. Approaching Glen Canyon from the air, crimson rock mesa falls away on one horizon in. chalky cliffs; on another delicate spires and castle formations rise through blue haze. The Colorado’s gorge is a gashing wound, the yims falling sheer to the tawny-green river. Best View Best view of the dam construction is by walking out upon a swaying “chicken wire” catwalk, emerging from « permanent road late as 1869, and first U.S. Geotunnel, which descends from the logical Survey in 1923. rim 1,75 miles through rock. Draining seven mountain states, High on the east rim, a ramp the Colorado converges cascading leads -down into a kind of rock waters of hundreds of lesser rivcorral for equipment 300 feet be- ers and creeks into verticallow the rim. More equipment ‘walled canyons, moves down a monkey track, a Key project in total developvertical tramway from the east mentof the river, Glen Dam will rim to the river’s edge, and two no directly irrigate Utah lands. highlines permit men and equip- It will impound waters due lower ment to be carried across the chasm on cables. “Still a Good Record states and Mexico, SPECIAL NOTICE: Mr. Cecil Hopkins, factory trained Hearing Aid Technician and Ear Mold Specialist, will be office Monday, from 10:30 Mr. Cecil Hopkins 5:30 p.m., to repair all Hearing Aids and make fitted Ear Molds while you wait... and make possible, by water exchanges, development on upper streams. U.S. Roads Commissioner Armstrong traced efforts of man to UnderstandakLly the work is dangerous, but only six men have been killed to date, a good record control flods in ancient Nile and compared to the 99 fatalities on Mesopotamic valleys, and deBoulder (Hoover) Dam. There scribed Glen Canyon and related were no fatal accidents during Colorado projects as an epic construction of the Glen bridge. achievement in mastering his The 700-foot Glen Canyon dam environment. from which one can look downWitnesses Start when completed will be second river to the steel web of the highReclamation Commis sioner highest, ranking second only to way bridge and blasting to pretraced history of 726-foot Hoover dam, and will Dexheimer. pare for the dam itself. be bigger in terms of volume of authorization of the Glen project, Looking directly down through concrete poured. Its 28,000,000 and said he witnessed the momthe open mesh you see damp red acre-foot reservior, backing wat- ent when President) Eisenhower BRIDGE LINKS NAVAJO reud, where the great river has ers 186 miles up the Colorado, and pressed a button to set off first PAST WITH INDUSTRIAL FUbeen diverted into a tunnel, 46% for a lesser distance up the San dynamite blasts in Glen Canyon TURE—Mingling on Glen Can; feet in diameter, blasted through yon bridge during dedication Juan, will be third largest in the and Flaming Gorge dam sites. solid rock for 1818 feet, to rejoin Some 40 aircraft and a fleet of are Navajo squaws in tradiworld, being exceeded only by a the river just below the highway tional blankets, bucks in broad buses and private cars brought reservoir in India, and Lake bridge. A narrow split of red Meade with its 33,000,000 acre- several thousand persons to wit- black stetsons, together with earth here blocks off a *green modern-minded college educatness the dedication of the bridge. feet. The Glen dam will produce pond of water not. yet pumped ed Indians in crew-cut haircuts They found a neat, well laid out 900,000 KW. out between the two low earthen N. W. Keefer, chief engineer, construction city, with paved and Brooks suits. The $4,136,dams.. Directly beneath the catfirst to arrive on the site, points streets between rows of shining 000 bridge not only links Utah walk, steel piling are being driven out that although Navajo bridge trailers; prefabricated adminis- more closely with Arizona but down to bedrock to lock off the ties an ancient and proud is only 15 miles down-river; due tration buildings, three schools; river more securely. On the left Navajo culture into the indusor east side of the river, a sec- to impassable cliff formations it churches, and a $600,000 hospital trial future of the west. was necessary to drive 200 miles dedicated Friday. ond giant tunnel, 35 feet higher, is to reach the opposite brink of the being blasted out. The two diverchasm. Today an excellent 76sion tunnels can. carry 120,000 mile highway has been paved second feet of water, and should from Kanab to Glen Canyon keep the dam site dry during bridge, and an eastern Arizona The Brigham Young University on the Aleuts of Alaska, and peak runoff this summer, link joins Highway 89 on to Flag- chapter of the University Archae- Lorenzo Allen will speak and River Diverted staff. show slides on the early Mexican ological Society will meet MonThe river was successfully diPouring Date day at 7:30 p.m., in Room 205, culture. verted into the first tunnel a few Concrete will be poured this Eyring Science Center. days ago during an unusually low fall prior to November, and posThe public is invited to at- BIRD CLOWN ebb of only 5500 second feet. sibly as early as September. tend. Topic for the evening will It is impossible to over esti- be “Three Distinctive Cultures The chat is the clown of the mate the tremendous effect of the of the Americas.” bitd world. 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