Show grand canyon tourist travel shows increase increase in the number of visitors to grand canyon national park may bring total tourists for or the travel year to the highest peak in tho the history of the bho park ac cording according to 11 hi C bryant superintendent thoro there have been visitors visitor durler tho the present travel year mr bryant said with the end ot of tho the year september 30 it Is expected that the abo old record will have been topped by several thousand persons persona during the first 20 laya days of august this year persons entered the park as aa compared with 63 tor or the same bamo period in 1940 0 one ne sixth of that number went to the north rim more mora than twice as many visitors came from california as from any other state other states in fit order ot of the number ot of the visitors they send are texas illinois arizona and new york |