| Show STATE NAMES GIANT BRIDGE OVER CANYON RICI RICHFIELD IFIELD arizona has haa bestowed the name of 0 grand canyon bridge upon the giant steel structure that spans the colorado river at a point six miles south of 0 lees leea ferry according to james J davis news reel photographer who has haa just negotiated the grand canyon bridge road from flagstaff arizona to richfield utah mr air davis left denver more than two weeks ago and drove to flagstaff by way of santo sante fo and albuquerque quer que N M and holbrook arl arizona zana establishing the fact that tho the colo orado canyon bridge road by way of flagstaff and kanab la Is an all winter mr davis drove the stretch between flagstaff and kanab during the late general generah storm period experiencing little difficulty along tho the way he found the road ideal from flags flagstaff taft tp to cameron ariz a distance of eighty miles the tha next ninety miles tho the southern ap to th tb bridge has haa not been graded and the road winds around es as carp ments through washes and over mesas finally landing landin g at the bridge itself this stretch of road Is the fine mado made by trucks and tractors in bringing gg tile the gigantic girders birder s and fabricated pieces to the site of 0 the structure that spans marble canyon at a height of feet above water level mr davis learned that a good highway over this territory Is to be con str acted by arizo arizona na and that tha actual construction work is soon to start mr davis dails found the approaches to the bridge north and south a little difficult but passable there Is ample evidence of civilization and modernity erdity at the bridge an old settler of the arizona strip known as buck lowery havink having set up a store on the south rim of the canyon and built a rather pretentious hotel at the north rim A gas station and facilities for watering autos are provided at the store on the north side north of the bridge mr davis came to kanab by way of house rock valley the jacobs lake road through the kaibab al I 1 a I 1 lorest forest being blocked with a snow ra raw banks y T s mr davis da vis reports he found th high way in tine fine shape from fredonia Fre donta doula north to richfield he highly recommends it as an n all winter highway to io motorists he predicts th that atthe the road by way of the colorado canyon bridge will become one of the most popular in tho the entire west for motor travel be tween points in utah and arizona and that irwill it will open up a new and interesting te highway from utah to california I 1 via flagstaff prescott Pre ecott and phoenix when the new stretches of road both south and north of t the he bridge have been built mr davis could obtain no definite road oad data on the proposed highway through the arizona strip from fro fred abnia onla south and east he did learn that it Is now proposed to build the road through the house rock valley this route being considered more feasible than that by jacobs lake route which reaches ailigh a high altitude and Is subject to io being blocked by wl winter U ter snows |
