Show SPAN VER OVER 0 COLO aver GIVEN NAI NAME OF NAVAJO BRIDGE through the intervention of governor B 13 of arizona and largely at the instance ot president heber J grant ot of the L D S church the bridge the colorado river near lees ferry in arizona hitherto officially th tho grand canyon bridge has been formally named the navajo bridge tho the necess ary action for or the now new name recently was taken by the arizona highway com mAsslon it was learned in salt lake sunday the naming of the bridge precipitated considerable debate a few years ago just before its opening was wag made a matter of interstate celebration in the presence ot of the governors oi of utah and arizona i and of high dign dignitaries from call fornia and nevada arizona wanted it called the grand giand canyon bridge but bat before the utah leiis legislature lature there was waa a debate as to whether such a decision should be protested it was pointed out that the bridge Is 18 not over the grand canyon several names were suggested and president grant at that time suggested that it might ml glit take the name of 0 a navajo chief who had bad been indru mental in preserving peace between the navajos cavajos and the whites whose herds occupied the region however since lt it was Ari zonas bridge and arizona had built it even though assisted with funds from the federal service and the bureau of indian affairs there was nothing much that utah could do about it minutes of the arizona highways commission just to hand however show that at a recent meeting ing governor wrote a letter to the commission referring to the debate which seems not to have died down entirely the governor told the commission that the name narva navaho 0 brid bridge e met wi with t h the a approval p of the secretary of the interior the he indian service and president grant tho the request of the governor was granted and a suitable plaque plague will be substituted tor for the present one on the bridge tribune |