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Show = E=uy lountain Republican SALT eae LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, Pages 1 to 10 | AUGUST 4, 1907. of Scenic Wonders in Southeastern Utah a. PO «ys > Round : Island Cut by San Juan River. Old Wort at Sandy Crossing, | BYY BU BURL > ee ARMSTRONG Southeastern future, ‘stiedi | and Utah has that will one BG albwiy. : governed by , a peculiar have to Ten. destiny ) | People be San has that yy , is barren, unpromising the gold Juan, heard the or of to follow The people ‘ Vidtle of settlement helped them arrive bordering on the 294 ranges every ten ‘who square wants to miles. get away To the man from the busy. ; rush of the world, San affords hiding pleces as "railroad as United any States. Juan One from part may of travel the there and Were so river, saeep. beastly ae} : ¥ i oh | si) é eek to im popatple 9 fook el the 3Uteks for at the nightly nave and and famhaymos- as 13 oh | precipitous | into that The | Sd So ae mado life more miserable The San Juan river wasn't satisfied with the limited bed given it by nature, and started out to ramble all over the: valley: Wien the snow on tive San Juan mountains and the La 1 13, Oran £ the center of nearer the the across The It, future in exploitation the scéfile of point scenery. San county tourists kinds jis ul at to 2 came he alé aie, * ree Peas Se 11 ‘ 7eSle ar Sar asmuch and, in as the creeks parts of the tanks map showed and western nha 100 I miles didn't eat know o gence s . red lee nas san difference into brush vs og > rs San Juan a future greatest is and of pinon-snrubs waving of runs down. ‘eek { the corn, gardens through the streets plying all the water Z : + irrigation water og are of purposes, showing e the for town, culinary a Already an air at nature are net waste! & farm arti man's know Pee a objective a point suryeyo! ' , ae had introduced to a That's why nothing in the the hand western county. Had nays all map part that M- P= survyeyor's are sheep, Blues ae oN eattle oe ranges whicn no of horse broken can cross, with jatch There is been" country sawmill ifa " the) the Tren Colorado ine with .5an : » be man, afoot or age Jow by tie f vty ! . 2 evel ‘ at jot a can be Blutt of following and . » Trails ane s are ime } feet the old ! ee8 Bt ying he was the 6 us feat rocks with enter acter announced prospec to to perform this minrver on the sun beat down up relentless the degree of dis- lumber, overtime material, of the mines Y of g the Blues of ‘into from Juan San the Colorado from th and one La con-. of 2h the Ite Mtoe th and the snow-capped "y «ide OUIEE RIG came e ene & St, San and be ‘olk rugged, ean. s south of the San Juans nd west of. mountain, ans est of far ey.4 ' Nh loo fon in the w Southwest across tandi standing as a region ildest Over the Bear's Ears west tal © ry mountains, wes about 30 miles, and peaks ep parlarance | : ure canyon-Heignt, all, from creek 222 bead: feet height of : @ll, from creek hed. 205 feet; neight of arch, fvom creek bed. 98 feet: thickness of span, 107 feet; width of span, 186 feet; width of spanion a8) 49 feet; 4 Gen. BEtw ridge and) tac Hen- oO of the e Colorad OlLOTARO proceeding In the San ; 4S arked, nele that ingl ] ¢ von 11 bi } ire. hnee with Ww and an " wintt nite tI if {tsts Monumental natural I shape In | TOCKS ‘ Juan . valle San monuments m 1 Blsbi 1 (ed ad Chii Phe ou i eo ee and jece pi ess ed Ae after vi\\ , rive! 1 g ep a> on , ‘ marvelous the : the ite a a LO ri Ct yon , : a d itis now rhe eas pe te) enters built He log The the of two , have called cattlemen a their for cuse OF postoflics ‘ , io by The muito ee study thati there, and thing een as Ge for may That F some Pe his mm, th is of £a fine tne :state ce 1890, went! topped Cass d the says the i good 3 post- there heads it a 2: to believed not genera It was Utah'si's first explorer went that far fi t are pieces of Sweep of must a. h e the pleces nave hematite the in Os View et Spent =. mesa, must of of be ‘ to had tie the of _ was bridge country, : accom shed the igs !0Wed The arrow- been worn : the Indians seen the broad 7 river as it enoe To the right of > rive » the river 1s Hite, sesses ‘ - far5 ak and a ny ‘ ae by world that ; the > young men worl three Natural z bridge 5 ae of canes) bridges and an - Pack- oe ‘ . bridges . . a measurement of should know that : Dotuieaa Maus superior i in size. Natural , é 5 . was all Utaa x een to and, . fol= three. posoe) that beauty Virginia, ae . ae are the 5 for far : superior .matter, 7 <= to any a4 other natural wonder of thelr class in tne oe , The bridges are ez gaining bridges are The world Whole r » mY 1y are serving deserving. are fame, and they T Ars ar Se ° ‘ = Iwoes years ago the Salt 2 Lake . Com-io : at an ex for sponsor club stood mercial pedition that went into the bridge ;country.. Measyrements were taken on the abutment the figures placed and; m . of each bridge. Tne figures are inac& 5 wall was was per- the Caro- was turned point where It on down the canaction ‘of the ats . wore of into the sandstone were with finally jt the current of the a cumbersome roof Caroline bridge is A steep canyon impossible mound of at' one earth hard wall side, makes and it like- impossible from the other, Hence ‘only picture that can. be taken be taken from an angle. The bridge of the is more Senteroie. than either others, yet it‘ig not.as majestic as Augusta tie tye was When» water ledges away and just was the of the and continued Aided by the great [is & It mesa cliff to the of the eres j at > , Se ba for this : country : more hole creek runs it formerly creek to jeft. The pnotography ic, the of which commands ; whole SOCALcan heen Paani cea ae ay About(.224P on : ; . ic stone slab The survey of the . : P this compelled. ecomp Sie 3 young couple of days on top of the , os wie "tied in' the bridges from their a station Stanton it, jj, aKes Of The . bridge be'sald The Great three were the 56 . joose from the walls, and grada-hole was worked through. -It larger, more sandstone fell and to at the souta of rest of the red the le left 4 th the through a found immense now the where, may wall mosphere, difficult lat: oe Paik ne e high cliff Like the the 3 of : the' can Hdwin the for . formed until the on) je. surveyors the pottery, that points ere completed inhabited Colorado Eecho,canyon. ters fort 3 ross ~" fort and acti the the three nidden of erasian small arm <it rirat At : | that now wore . same turned yon Armstrong monument that it Is very x > ‘ whe o any fort Spaniards paniards r ; ao bags the medicine Below the fort can fon in ascend a canyen feat learn afte form are order ascent ith set witn be 2Se the and other relies scattered about eA ' 7 7 on the talus of the clify walls and the = found were there and Here below ; ‘!n been have hein toe eos ae torian to Indians lace I down another PS ; !™possible to ‘ ascendvs the mossback, and : and when throug hrougna at Hite it miles wall as easily water a it until and' an brides 1round ce to see around The line the the wall water away went , of abutment = ¢actyy formed, and arch, the peneath C a The down von the gradually eaten who . high mesa upon tae top théereJjs: a mossback which Dandy with the date disappeared, Where it i id : anoles" now is another thing that will be opposite. , In Dds Colorado in 1869, not speak of the as : , De In party ‘ J. te n bridge, {n were formed by the water face course The joied stream, ® of & and graduates ie The around an was > the not of be traced traced coming (ea Aematrone The bridges triangle, and ' the than througn trip his of the does i I in to pre of bridges through can your a story a magazine, the the sandstone soft . girect course,. "Ox country some With out hole on pro- prominently. eastern that well to wind-driven sand and action of the atmosphere the cnemical aa a water, i to the with :have conspired, the cross that of ' stone arches the che form , toppy ually grew them Considhas been. more surveying - a nose priage 7 - three, the young sur monument over the aS ¢ Armstr , a they put 22) one as for > wore sandstone the centuries, the ¢ ‘arolin bridge, and then went UP White canyon, where they marked the Augusta bridg. in a similar manner the 2 Rebhes time prospectors ‘ exthat's the on it yy seen ind this calling government the fort Spanish mecaafeant 4 wane teresting S! mall Hite . entrance fallen in the fort. ‘ elements Grand ¢ yon Major Powell -fort:-althous Colorad olorada cabin has that is of exploring pee os Edwin that gray form ey the In- an said bridges were The course canyon party ee . Seranton C2nyon walls so . . : fo locate them occasion- 5 university Three canyon ana the nae the Fred two 2°¢®. can- There fa his and out into that came for he ‘ swirled "Aele went and ago long be ot ; that had never before alwas work This in smallest of the vevors placed . 5 ree although fallen have been an- extended the report a an interior roof fact the White for building, there may centuries, 1 It commanding of wa the party i Starting at the . % excepting an to to Brown, if near-by canyons, . : been reared without "preservation In in know rie to theaework ruins lotted re- tne fort Utah mouth the or night p Viner ! the i on fort erie seens old Cass Hite found . In). 1885,,he found also fort ret i ‘ dab exposed ae " party bullt history of adobe, ovher wild- sunset sal to the ete bridges-a task attempted been bea gof 3 Bluff reaching Cummings : b : 'Storic better than the workmancliff dwellings in the shel- can and irea's even the in the show : master- a for of of he has - were the room walls painter Tne aid vet Hite and at Manecos or Dolores iar oometcomeartay and one time as West, the valley, x 5 through easiest stands of of certainiy It is graceful. WUE hie eruption Grand river toa ae Ee is eruptive formations. It doesn't require a geologist tourist the some in : dwellings ee en Cidental Pawn = there picture will show the adthe position selected by the ndohta-‘nien herconstrug. the " hundreds . formed Blues phd homce "ine! ning ‘ait to states the for . Beant ' i tas. ca on four lover down When Jcrossing its tl { the' Mr. stands at on time interesting -tered cliffs of the walls have distinguisned, direction } subject fit a find eyes the fort position is one correct, ad be Mscalants vital to , ion ship is be, yon The vantage of ald. padre ind Joh almost b at the wall with the insee Gute Suck Frere date wotld fhe stands gla ind the specthe gods Geologists country xr} by 1 be to ascend every in is Arizona traveler culch i continues of a Monu} f vonderful the past rt It photograph. which ravens the across ae pertlioned Some Rio White through Juan, RCI mile river, the ACT Bes: Sg gulen, Colo., Professor z : 7 memory . 4 . stands, still fort that on it-to It -++ grotesque. of arid lleves - old the says slab Caen markable distanes Beyond ji t broad. table- can well une UU e mnie | eft by the| erosion that marvelous angle most east straining ithout one for closed red 1a brea nd bar- and the yer of natur wildcould Stand all day long and ad@the beauties that-lie beneath-him mi Col- frome oO inet i its and topography the | vould Henry. gye by. do Study mules ‘ great el ' ( Whit ite with the tableland White Mesa 0 ould hot- = ee ‘ the south = re as deser San Juan faint. illew B -the omewhers trading post ean and bi ee taele is n the tothe Moqulcountry find:an = Tia | sepa tributari ruta the across lund, downfurther re) ( oO he oO nL ant Lave Juan.and urroundir taltbleland surrounding er ee a 5 eland,, seamed, ant pretty } y ind: fault fi Ss ane rrett sentinel. ie sceat the as ‘ valiey Off this ber the country hopeless the Sahara cross' the } that Wita of : in Awa a the.tmanelé miles seen ino the \lonumental fact,» the nd as Hite was ecsian dow ther Wetherill's i n rivel of Nevertheless, Cass source el eres lends" Cutaract you and traced , river square mystifying wallew inc Cortez, up SD It will Biadach by Scalp igures thie wars Edwin bridge jis tne most sym- the MmMetrical. Harsabarger is River to Hite, the >-ccountryPy of t on near week a for encampe d Were tAaca { OS ron $ aroline ‘ bridge in White » canyon he that show at that point to nothing the Colorado i there crossed the tae Snip Rock, a landmark on the lesevt that Is Known by every olathe Southwest Moonlight eres region Mark two base: Mental: Navaho (dan. you:-unay toward PRET forms. and, to which Colorado DEK m Bear's'. Eat sear's Jars se the "west: ee ine orado-in a a labyrinth of y loom ID Ute: peak ; ak grim g of . Elk the : the isthe may bé vhile coutrse,.areat i rise azainst Juan, easily { the o times three ees tick junction of rad on TD a the red hey 2,000 pot deep. l = a rizona the he ( irrisos i n into oO vic v comes mM Arizo : mA a i F: n the other side of the san Juan junc th ee river and 1 south and | east t o of its s juncNavaho. is . ( O1lorerado ) tl 1¢ ith ra fi with Naval mountain, the a ren a end of lost. 4 en a little' and mountains, . ' stream the Grand Can I egins I nK ado1 ee! LOCALES, Juan moun-. 1 CRON inin pRUMIE: ey Platas there canyons-so'deep, maginary Norah REALIS GE RORa a. RE ‘The San ican and deep: Ginte mountains Waite striking Green Monumental into over > say that students of his diary and east, way souta mix- the est, a in tentacl their their drainage RAE cons Barren ween. , ' resque aha ae ith the willo d- the» SanJuan' ain, look must dred he de emi- com Blue é tains. > the - ‘ommanding a ror Shon armbling Here cuts no of point outfitting an ++ , on the on the av € thnot LRN cantata arch, 157 feet; netetth of span, 261 feet; thickness of arch, 65 feet: width across arch, on top, 2 feet, at narrowest point, Caroline br 2 j y and Aion Coto wk ered toad road down San cliff finest in.a easy bridges swished the 2 their thread canyons deep é mace aint ‘ ! waterle patches of the sluggish stream sca theGueh the-openings: The a turning and -_ > ee . fae made with Renee qi Over pal crossing point Ferny the be to Os Canyon nature et tone to the gen lL apSEA PY. : Pit P wasted desert. andsunin cays canvon. ait contract a the San Juan rive cottonwood tine and triking nat, that, the Not tae «yess San In the dts miles of} fanciful.pietures. le refreshing 3 es 5 peatanceof: oe there eral grav: sandstone = > fan a aie) Piette on nth are a picture, possite progr<s™ further ws grass, and at au . heat Site Wirite outoof and the ing scheme made more ple of) clifl éurvenl until {t pass: the north nmuntiin cad then, ita 0 serra abov feet, , eeyv. ps* Canyons working the tne circle the within west and east south, : r vision there is spread a magnificent Gira? . 1 es, ‘ : e eas are - yRUes on top above of by* gié-of PAs he of deep of cut as scaTce In. yppal mile re- nence horse- at wate! travel et hundreds canyon % river {s impossible. " Tar The the stream lost the e ee a Tlynundrec ired river oe canyon rocky ieee Beconies : : followed the anda _! ‘0 of an-airship. Infact; . course is the only was eS ship POs far we hrough r 1s building - course aise m.i strea oa) ry ease plenty cut 150 denen ch ime i innunierable more Standing peo- f No ple as funny, n follow' the course ©" back, can 3 Juan any more SDe arene 3 atl) driven: town the making : prominence some a struck ‘, Bluff . E became out the product for the new homes of Greystone Limestone quarries afford : sources wide'sp had been careful maker map ‘ arehe ole ho water have included an occasional str or. for the benefit of a strange! ; The idea of the old prespector fol‘ ; to its junetion lowing be cummer and e can't oulfit. country hills, the mesa captle ane and. the sloping. sides of ; ; are not so far distant that sAewed of the surveyed and mappe 1d, the old German would have seen ¢1 ndless winding Can-- yons, not) severe Over plenty of range for circle Lhousand: . licallyinto prosperity of of -are js Sniw: . ters there county doesn't ¥ strument from ire general a diameter, canyon md teers 16 - pect along the way Now, the western ep planned in ‘ here pluteau supand the of has ay the & Grave, " LaSal' mountain . the ind view more grain Johnson , ow Blues and the. of or Pea there fields yegetables off plain found -sage- and they nave made the place attractp, ge ine people of Bluttl The nights are cool in the summer and the win- of of at The a ratlroad again Teornea Z mountains These range the }are northwa to. the >circle west of here," ne said, "so I thought I would follow the San Juan river to its junction with the Colorado and pros- part pial » ve Soldien activ- displayed , ‘ ; eee 7 ; spit ns et Augusta eebridge, largest of the apethree ; : in down cover from way B. D. Green DULG point out and ‘ t Greyson county a up a within Hite. Moonlight und has .'The mushrooms. ellen:"Ne i railroad going could att So ie to Once gulch into exist- Grevson.. Dry farming has been ‘the of Instead and oiccessful,. blank sc a must b | the between Greyson is that + : Cummings party, and which will be ecepte accepted by the government beeause sures are taken tg a 2 figures are from the eareful Dandy, juts line, railroad Ante at that could : : 3 miles from Plu : mounBlue the of pec | | Canyon, > in White ee _ i nearest ing z sprung. It Dandy be eanyon is good. freighting from Aon ‘ certain' find the a at » 4nd . to and i] | Poe Railroad sup, . miles time 5 1¢ thy shar. 160 Grande, ‘Panise to Wkelye TE | River : ee 2 } at cone DEN s 2 nape the repert has is understood ee ' with cB a aes an of cher cliffs. automobile a eats a | bg Picture Bhan $50,000 been has promise of full beers sdst Miah hid usedThe easeltownpie acne aie itv sh to it At je: ; Greysen : The place. for Aro Ta for towers shows LCE ++ ‘. mesa 25 the Bluff 20d Ee canter tye rea ae I om Sst g& pol where Picture and locate SCHOE under "ke . on tains. mouritains . (Upper) sale Mit ‘Apa ne and total it for F Analshint the willeie Up fe , in a part, plateau or table land theory and a mod a s over emap z Rete for the the to an short across is ; ;= 3 j visions £ be ler, offered reservation, ¢ "nis 1 chain and mer is core) "thar "obuilery, vecwata it is worth setts A stage line from Green river, ov, bet- and until government anxious found = curate eler at the gap, and fhsuaeoks has ; width of span beneath, 114 f fallen dway, leaving a h * _Bawin bri ds smale co a pretty. pleture 5A ; a} Plelds qGway, town It was cameos ALC aetieh oe ae }5 the ‘OUTITN cCanyous county whole i oO n the Navaho offered Gisappear. fd old: German ther ntoat, figured He and the I rhhe feo the fo on i u ank ‘ ra In the head of a theory. formed Me \ Color: lorad e fr total‘ Se. ener z ‘eS | a ae th with order ] 1 : a rorihert ee y askVe ou y "ti junetion to the SONS TEI Beaty place, and while vet been made : cre yer everal for } wi camp mming a at map a hand purchased he and years, . T f Utah one day to see what some ota. ' : / ile er paris of the West looked like. He t 1 tort} rm = iu » Son Juar ‘ 1 eloses Rae Sha . i 1 fell Vit s followes , und car his to vaterway heen of school ae , That: had > caten Gani ae eearens Etech aa yee ae Sara Mo at \ hate -" came He site the government aS the not weeks the from the sightof all where re \ were people Indian river u some afoot grain the sell mai in prospector co, : BMexico, and Veen a view-spot Bluff traveled He Nev~W tf o ore; tae scenery marvelous were German through, o a we old an go find over the low-lying: valley, hay gvradually the river bed widened the town of Bluft was threatened, study; the prosan endless wil- search of pay find splendid Ji While ago may may of les as variety of ; geologist spread ‘never section profitable ground for pector may traverse derness in seer may brought that abundance The but Juan of to which an There-Is county, border, Bluff aaaiel the canyon from a circular wall resembles the Coliseum at Rome. wall is not over 20 feet in diam- deataenieerd uaeatemnpeids ae Clee ane fl uel a ent distances. Traveling a °8 "0 P , The ret Week In one direction, and statting at. {le Water rushed out of Its bauks afd one tich-. r through White canyon tnrough thay Wonderland of scenery that leads to the Natural bridges, The direct route of the railroad would lead through the fap, and henee the name, Tne wall is a continuation of the indoors the q in Joo0dm for the of erossing the Colorado few miles below the gap water Whole repose, | summers living | she oad Goodman , BARE: = 4 it Is almost impossible to cross, and the tr i ¢ eras rail a Ret around the all, addin a mile‘i ee ; i » to the * distance laid Geet valley hand ae ‘al gap ina cany rt [ : : NeSe She ; LY eae wall down} White Party p merely guessed at the dime Te 3 Sit ans er VY, and guessed) ne ne at mE the dimen 22 é : f : : gap The trail | ; ms NEAR TOREL iatach ant \ a past theNee gap, be- | Ver pared The measurementsaie as made by ie estabestab of as ee - i heer ue A attitude the that vine fartner | ; taeir was. as. liltle But hot of that close a reach less in San Juan county in anyother one county in the hole republic. The avers o, of Utah. exploring on eb, ape six weeks of the In the southeastern he the of . things plenty the 1 tired town v pretty frontier, was a Spacious C@tile county far other are at less to eours . Séveral "people, person_ may of Sd Ren : meld Charles + Bluff When lished one i ; . , contains something 8 thi county square miles and only 920 than good started Fe banks the = } he may be dead. No one him since the morning he San a an Juan "over 10,000 or the fellow road. the 7 mystert- of old sandy along . ‘ and ous. dissuasions | the Started out San Juan J ; Bluff, along papming can be developed by the miner or the farmer, but jt contains treasures for ; : re both-in_ spots Here and there are Masten iminces: but tho vast area witaiit:the Siundary of San Juan county ea Use Lites < : : of 7" ts tcp | resources natural ; Despite and 5 wawin . . graceful It : as grandest = spans White the is three.. the of *cructure as bridge Augusta [he not te ; : canyon completely Big cottonwood trees peneath fhe arch resemble sageain ; P 4 oa brush, a man top' from pygmy likea looks on of + tix bridge bed. creek the ery net formation ‘ of f rh brought about in the ridge bridge th e same manner wast th the for- thers, 2 and, c like . rest, wer coutse of the stream can = : aa be traced around the rock to the The . Augusta Us < aputments, portion shows j, supported : I , It is not by out ‘sroline Carolin the up clumsily, massive mass of the Augusta, pro- re bridge : which presents tne appearance of : ; effashioned by a mighty been r the of floor Che instrument ppridge : is almost sloping Che and is but ry . While ; easily : south. larger, yaying y fective an , as the easy the exactly " to the Caroline ' . of walls ascent , (Continued horizontal- sandstone . of the top bridges, ~ on Page but oR Foar.) afford . Edwin it is a . « adee aT ¢ |