Show FIRST WHITE WOMEN TO GAIN GLORY GLOR GL OR Y YB YBY BY B Y SCALING THE NA NATURAL TURAL BRIDGES first white women to set e eyes cs csor i or feet CeN upon Utah's great Arat natural bridges are from Bluff CIt City a n. little frontier j on the banks bank of oC the tho San Juan river In the southeastern southeast southeast- ern ormi corner of the state In Sun Sami an Juan Co county U fl ty The rhe natural bridges destined to be become he- he come eom the features of Utah's first t national na na- na- na 1 pa park nark rl were sere discovered co b by Cass Cars Bite Hite in 1853 but no white woman had ever scott peen them until a n few Cew weeks ago when a party of Bluff p people ople made the trl trip to the natural wonders There Thero were tw twelve hp young oung women And I sev seven even young men In the party besides Charles Charl Goodman a photographer photograph r o of Bluff who took toole a picture of ot the party on top of oC th the AUgu Augusta ta bridge the largest of or the thre hl big arches that thai sp span n White hito canyon canon In a letter to tu a friend In Salt alt Lake Mr Ir Goodman says a g I have read the articles In iii The Th ThRe Republican Republican Re Re- publican concerning the I natural tural wonders won won- tiers ders and cliff dwellings In this see sec pc- pc tion thon I wo was not aware when themi the party larty left Bluff that you had made new measurements nt of the natural bridges and I am surprised to learn that I have been placing too high figures figur on the photographs I J have hove taken of or lh the Iho bridges 1 I got ot these measurements from Cram one of the members of the lio Salt Lake Lale Commercial club party that was here two years ago and J supposed the they were correct However if your our surveyors s ol measured with a non- non shrinkable non surveyors surveyors' chain I will have to abide by their measurements measurement It will Ill cut sixty feet leet from Cram rom the time span of or tho the arch o of the Augusta bridge I now fear that some ome other chap in some seine om other country countI will willInd fInd Ind a natural bridge larger than the thC AUGusta and th the prestige and anti glory of oC San Juan Junn county In natural bridges will be 11 departed forever forc I I T have ha now made mad three trips to the bridges from Crom Bluff My I last view o of the Augusta I Is flits I have had It copyrighted to 0 prevent the postal card carll companies from using It and selling tho J thousands without giving me mae either profit or credit as has hns been lone done In iii Inthe Inthe the case casp of or m my pictures two Iwo years ears ago The latest picture snows shows all theon the lines on ott the great arch and anti 1 chose chop chopa a po position that shows th the arch alch perI perfect per per- I feet pct and symmetrical from Cram abutment I to abutment On the thC top are arC twelve young yoting Indies ladles of or Bluff and seven young men The They arf are so M far tar up in the sky that they re resemble elongated tints dots with hats hat on The girls climbed upon the bridge the longest and hardest si wa way with about as al' much macit ease as did the boys bOYR The first women omen to climb the lImb the thc bridges will become famous amous because be of the feat the they have hao accomplished Scaling th the sandstone walls about the tho Au Augusta u tn bridge and reaching the top of or that great rat natural structure Is a stunt that requires s intrepidity and great Areat daring anti and th the women ornen who followed their malt mall escorts to the top are aro entitled to a great amount of credit Mr 11 Goodman need have no fears about prestige e- e and s glory of San SanJuan SanJuan Juan county No 0 one will find l a bridge as large as fiR the lie A Augusta there Augusta there Is no rio bridge e that even en hints at al th the Augusta Augusta's Augustas Au Au- gusta's gustas greatness s In imi nn an any oIlier part of the world It will n never fW I be eclipsed I b another The by Cummings party part which measured the thc bridges eH for th the government found round that the measurements measure ments of the tilt Commercial club climb porn party taken In 1905 were erp Inaccurate giving the bridges more morp height than thair the they were entitled to 0 to hut but th the exact measurement incas meas does not nol rob roh an any of the trio o of wonders of or th time the prestige they have AD gained I n Ill T. T B. B A. A |