Show Planning to Build Bridge Near Lees Lee's Lee s 5 Ferry Utah Utah's s 5 Famous National Parks to Benefit UTAH Q r CANYON f JP z ow NA UPI LEES 0 L GRAND CITY CANYON PARR MAINE O v WINSLOW CAL Map tap aho Grand Canyon With arrow orrow poInting to spot t where hero bridge will be bc built to shorten route of ts Copyright 1926 NEA NA Service Ser Inc I Just as os medieval mariners once crept forth to seek ok a II water route to t India American motorists may soon oon become Columbu Columbines os on a 8 vanished sea lea to discover r a 11 new newland newland newland land route rout to Arizona Th The sedimentary rock plateaus or of th the American west and south south- southwest southwest west west Welt scientists say aay were formed from 40 million to 00 million years ear ago alo as nand deposits as- as assorted as assorted sorted and placed by the tho th waves wares ot of prehistoric bays bay and Ria oceans But the th earths earth's surface was somehow raised or wrinkled enough to let the tho th waters leave their bed bell which It line Ime m became occupied by deserts and moun moun- mountains GREAT CHASM M In the h Interval since Ince the last ocean vacated v science believes afew a afew afew few million rainstorms descended Their successive floods wept Into a channel which gre grew to be b the Colorado river and md ate te out a chasm a 8 mile mil deep dc p and from eight to 12 miles wide This chasm we w call the th Grand Orane canyon Its subterranean rapids are said ald to roar at floo flood 1 season SC with a greater volume ot of o water than whirls over Niagara Falls Its stupendous du depth and abrupt abrupt- abruptness abruptness abruptness ness and that of ot similar and ond only smaller gorges forces up stream has ha limped limited navigation on the th pre pre- pre historic c seas seas of ot Utah and AN- AN Ari Arizona zone zona almost as an effectively as fan fan- fan fantastic tactic terrors ot of unknown oceans discouraged pre pre Columbian canoeS canoe Inc canoe trig Ing on mid-Atlantic mid PASSED HY RY CONGRESS This year fear however congress has passed a bill to operate co with Arizona In brill bridging ginI the tho th sunken Colorado near Its inco Into the Grand Grane canyon Thousands of ot American vacation tourists have hav hav been thrilled with the compelling grandeur of ot the and the th charm of ot the Cascades and nd the th Sierras Yet surprisingly few know the Gayer splendor of ot Americas America's land ot of dust rainbow dust and scenic sunburn that that tinted many picture belt or of laid osea-laid laid sea landscape which stretches intermittently from the tho Grand Grane canyon and the Painted Desert to Thermopolis Wyoming and md to the Glacier park region lon Montana Last year clr 2011 visitors en entered en- en entered entered Yosemite National park California Yet only 16 17 saw Zion National park Uta Utah though It rival Yosemite In to towering Sub Sub- Sublimity sub sublimity limity and far tar surpasses it In richness ot of color Likely no greater number visit visit- visited visited ed Bryce canyon also In southern Utah although probably no other spot In North America can duplicate duplicate cate the th awesome symmetry of Its colored colored van pinnacles FINER FIXER SIGHTS MISSED Last year automobiles automobile visited the south rim of ot the th Grand Y t c G Gr I It r e r e 4 la lai laIs I i Is 4 w 1 h Bryce Canyon in Utah color of the semi arid southwest remnant or earth eroded by tho receding watts watt's cr H da dav v s r v jet t eez i t J h x On Only by crossing this foot bridge CAn tourists see sec thu tho greater beauty ot or the tho Colorado from the north nonh sIde of the canyon canon canyon But Dut only 2096 mOo made mad do the tho about round about trip to the north rim I though many authorities declare the tho north side 1000 feet teet higher otters much th the finer canyon panoramas panorama The Th proposed bridge bride Is to be b near ner Lees Lee's Ferry at a point where tho canyon canon Is only 00 feet leet wide and nd foot feet deep State Stilt and federal fed fed- fed federal eral governments will shar share Its estimated cost ot of Most rost tourists now miss two thirds two two- thirds ot of o the Grand canyon trip They shun alike the th physical ex- ex ex exertion of a 0 mule back or hIking trIp to the th toot footbridge at the bottom m and the th motoring forts forts of o a mile nO-mile westward arc through Arizona California Nevada Ne- Ne Ne Nevada vad vada and Utah ees deserts to the north rim By an eastward circle through New Mexico Colorado and ane Utah the north rim Is la about 1200 miles away By Dy the th new bridge this will wilt be shortened to miles With such roads a as th the government now hasIn has hasIn hasin In many national parks and such as Arizona mountains between Flagstaff and ond Holbrook the th rim rim- rim to rim to-rim journey should become a 8 national pastime richly rewarded with ever changing vistas Ista ot of the fantastic fantl Painted Desert o ax as well III as a those thos ot of the tho th canyon VIRGIN RIVER IUEn I Also It tr our modern Columbus either approaches or leaves the tho bridge by way of ot th the tho Arrowhead highway rout route throuGh southeast southeast- ern rn Nevada and ane California he h willi get et many unique and weirdly won won- wonderful wonderful wonderful feelings In the th country of at atthe the Virgin River southwestern Utah Here Her the th sagged but pleas pleas- pleasIng pleasing pleas Inc Ing battalion n of ot reddish cliffs which Imprison the th stream and ane Its verdant valley Is I strikIngly con con- contrasted contrasted with forbidding brown or purple desert mountains oo 00 |