The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-01
CABLE OVER
THE GRAND
CANYON
JONES AND PRESl-
DENT WOOCLEY PLAN.
Steel Cage for Passengers Will Be
Drawn by Cable Across Roaring,
Unbrdeeable Torrent.

If the plans of Buffalo" Jones and
President Woolley. of the Bright
Angel trail project of Arizona ma
terialize. southern Utah and that iSo-
lated northwestern portion of Arizona
VIII soon be sharing the benefits of
the great tourist trade which Is an.
nually attracted to that wonderland
of abyssmal depths. the Grand Can
yon of the Colorado.
Suspended high over that roaring,
unbrldgable torrent a steel cage for
passengers will be drawn from ono
side to the other over Il cable five
hundred feet long At certain sea
sons of the year the height above the
water will be fifty feet or more, af-
fording much the sensation Of bal
loon ascension. AT other times. how
ever. when great storms I'm Colorado,
oloudbursts or sudden thaws precipi-
tate rise In the river of forty feet
or more, the yenturesome passengers
in this strange conveyance will be
treated 10 a trip that will be hair
raising in its apparent perilS.
At the present time there Is only
one practicable crossing place In the
Colorado canyon between The Needles,
California, and points hundreds OF
miles to the north in the vicinity OF
Grand Junction. That crossing is
Lees Ferry, situated in an isolated
section of northern Arizona and I'M
available for the tourist trade.
These conditions have long been
recognized and, although numerous
schemes have been contemplated for
providing a crossing near the end of
the Bright Angel trail. the steel cage
and cable idea is the first to be ac
tually carried out.
The tourist thirsting for the scenic
grandeur of the Grand Canyon has
heretofore been afforded an opportu-
nifty to approach to the southern brink
OF this wonderful gorge, but as for
exploring what lay on the other side
the forests Of the Kaibab. the Ma
tional Game preserve and the tortu-
Gus canyons of southern Utah, rich
in their remains OF cliff and cave
dwellerS' abodes, he must needs have
his Imagination or proceed by route
oe two or three thousand miles through
either southern California and Nevada
or through New Mexico, Colorado and
Utah.
From the end of the Bright Angel
trail and the hotel situated at that
point, it is eight miles to the Arizona
end of the cable ferry. From the 9th.
er end it Is II miles to the top OF the
northern brink. Then comes the
great game preserve of the govern
nent and the other attractions.
According to the statements OF AS
sistant Forester l.. +. Kneipp, who
returned from that section OF the coun-
try, accompanied by Assistant Dis
trict Grazing Chief A c. Mccain. "Buf-
falo" Jones and President Woolley are
laying great plans for the future OF the
territory in question. among which is
the addition to the game preserve OF
an extensive tract to the north and
west OF 1t. which they propose to con-
vert into the largest geological and
game preserve in the world, stocked
with the strange Quadrupeds of all
parts OF the earth from the antelope
now being hunted in Central Africa
by Colonel Roosevelt. to the curious
musk-ox of the northern hemisphere
In fact. 1t Is stated that Colonel Roose-
welt has volunteered TO furnish some
of the first specimens to be placed In
this new preserve.
The district in question is surround
ed by natural barriers. the canyon to
the south and east, and impossible
mountains to the north. All that Is
necessary is an artificial barrier across
a narrow space to the west TO con
vert the entire section into a pre-
serve in which the animals confined
there will be furnished an all.the-year
range for both tropical and temperate
species.