Show COLORADO BRIDGE IS 13 CHEAT ASSET TO THIS SECTION interest In in III this thin section or of the country lins lini neatly greatly since iho he opening of it the colordo til ili 1429 it Is the connecting link between tile lie scenic wonder woride rg ut of southern stob and northern art X olia with tho famous painted des ort crt find tit the highways south of the lie colorado while tile lie routt route us its yet 14 i not nn all oiled highway it ig 1 in good condition except in a few places and TI duct 4 tit the distance I 1 between malt halt lake city and phoe illy by nilles tire Is des tilled to play nn all important wk part in ili tile alio development of tills this part of the southwest not N ot only la Is the route i the ali bridga being by tile tilou slid of if who conn conic this way io 10 view the and visit other interesting here but JIB it li Is fust filst bevo illing the main route for 1 the w transporting ly by truck of prodo ells tropical fruits aria and early ais vegetables front roin southern arizona to t III still t lake CIO y find tul other of pop last year mr trucks loaded i with ill cottonseed cakes ciket were arc light into annab and other town townson soil fou thern biorn vittali for feeding purposes ns fig I 1 it could ile 10 hought nt at lower prices at ata it could lit in northern towns it Is 14 1110 o 11 conven convenient tent route for ot of tile L n D S churche church who wish to tho the conferences and of the church in ili salt halt laike city fly this spring so several veral W e art a rs loaded with people fr from om ak mesa tempe and other biffi towns bouth of the colordo passed cassea i gil datil danli on their heir way to april jmj coll at salt halt lake borne said 1 l that it wag the first time they had U traveled tile route from lees sief ferry rt ty house rock t lie road their iv pioneer parents had S traveled over in ili covered wagons in 1 tho the severities seventies und early eighties S the bridge itself ns as well as the historic lees ferry varry and tile tho indian reservation with abo lio inako anake dances dancea JP and have 1 people to these theio parts this great if engineering project Is the highest afi highway bridge lit in the world being S feet above the water level of tile alic colorado the alio great central tt spun spill la Is feet long ana tile entire structure feet lit in length lee leos s ferry beny is six sik miles from froin the bridge lu lofio and Is visited by nearly everyone cr yono who goes to the bridge tho lilic old cabin built about 1872 by john 1 I LOG lee who figured in tho the wy awful frontier tragedy Redy tile moun moan tali Men meadows dows ws la still standing aria and tho cable which aided travelers aelem tr to cross the colorado still tho the river it 1 Is 14 4 a lonely place and was appropriately named lonely dell W by lee who alio first lived there accord corolla ins lm to mcclintock tho the arizona historian tile first crossing crosing of the river tit the mouth of the parla parin continued on rue page throe three COLORADO RIVER BRIDGE OKI AT ASSET from one nf wn MIA in ill whon it ot of it party liv ailed ly by jacoh anft alad iua it few of tile aili inan crossel ailt litter 11 glorso was frowned the thu the 1 guirty airty went to lo tile mo ilia foul ford as tiu lie danger of crossing nt lees forry nas ivas 1 eved too to grent apt in ill al nuo lother thoi raft lydig nt built kiil tile alio wilt 0 cross ro ja oili e d lind aguill in ili 1869 president Yol lill visited tile place in ill 1870 and it routt wilt aoI on oil A fort foit apon win olio iii so ilio major wvsley expect doll I roul c ached ivd the mouth illo of 0 ift in ill in ill 1970 wall built 11 al 1809 lough scow in willett lie eros noss dodl r lir lie loft left one olle u of lili 1114 boat bositis 4 tile tho 1 anville IloN vell for tint ferry mell to mo ilse lit in may 1873 first ali st lorm Moril loll intention from to Ar arizella IzOlla glnn ill II 1 I alla anty cros el tile river tit at tilts toor ai not tile w bouto liu lie point lible biblo in alint ahn t it irald out tile first fir it mornion horld south eolith of tl alo river A fe few yv I 1 rs inter john it alth cwI it larger bout beat on oil thu ilia this waa tile river lit tile ferry first real ical fe rry boat used with alio 0 pe o tho present Io lorado river ly ridge alio llio I 1 1 or of alves ferry which bad boon been lisca for over oci fifty six years b abandoned and it itches lives travelers trave lerg was now alon only in history iii story Ilow evero much roi romance nance la Is attached to the place and today tourists cun iluf ilig visit this famous V this way want to V spot |