Weekly journal-miner., 1921-07-27
NARVEES OPEN
 UP ON ROUTE
 TO CANYON RIM

Dr. H. C. Gardner of Salt Lake is
 acknowledged a scientist of note, but
 the doctor has another side to his nature that was revealed yesterday when he sat down to tell about the marvels of a four-day trip from his home to Prescott via the Grand
 Canyon. Gardner and his party were
 said at Fl Tovar to have been the
 first to make the trip, using the new government suspension bridge across the gorge far below the canyon rim.
 Beauties and wonders Of nature
 hitherto unheard of were disclosed
 to the astonished but appreciative
 eyes of the party, when the members
 thereof reached the little known country north of the north rim.
 They travelled by three approved modes in order to shorten the dis
 tance between Salt Lake and Pres
 colt. and at the same time avail
 themselves of the new route the gov
 ernment has made possible for north and south travellers. They left the
 Utah metropolis by automobile and
 drove 274 miles to Bryce's Canyon.
 There they spent the first night amid surroundings that were to say the least unique The second half, days travel - 1S6 miles - brought them to the north rim where they obtained saddle animals from Jim Owens, the cougar hunter who was Colonel Roosevelt's guide during his 1913 hunt One night was spent in the Grand Canyon. The trip from rim to rim was 1872 miles long in actual map distance, but 35 miles by trail. The journey was completed by train.
 Bryce'c Canyon is something diff ferent. Lacking the overwhelming distances that distinguish the Grand Canyon, its rare structural and color beauties are easier to appreciate. The differential erosion of it's rock forma- tions has left it with hundreds and thousands of vertical columns, vary ing from pure white limestone to deen red sandstone. Whereas in the larger canyon, the distances are such as to prevent reflection of light from one temple" to another, in the Bryce gorge, the pillars throw upon each other an unearthly light. Some of the columns appear to glow as though illuminated I from within. Others seem to be translucent.
 An experience seldom fl ever en- loved, was prepared for the party on the first night The stream which has eroded the canyon, plunges out ward and down over an escarpment, and sprays over a grassy cone about 40 feet high, its top truncated and about the size of medium sized room. Behind the cone and between it and the wall of the cliff over which the stream tumbles, IS a con siderable cave where camping par ties find it convenient to pass the night. From within this cave Dr. Gardner and his companions were able to view the rise of a full moon behind the jagged pinnacles of the canyon wall, and through the mist and spray of the waterfall. In thus drinking in the glowing beauties of the moonrise, the travellers added to | their previous excellent impression of the waterfall, which had provided ] them with an exhilarating cold show CT bath upon their arrival.
 There is a woeful lack of definite , about the enchanting new land of the north rim, No body in Salt Lake seemed to know that a new bridge had been built m he Grand Canyon, to enable men and beasts, but not motor vehicles of course, to traverse the gorge and reach either rim. An article in describing the completion 9f the bridge, decided the party to make the trip by way of the canyon, and a telegram to the Grand Canyon confirmed the view that it was not ,nly a possible, but a highly desir- ible journey.
 The trip north and south via the ( bridge will certainly not i ,e supplanted in popularity even by { he proposed new aerial route from Salt Lake to Williams, once the ( 'eople discover the myriad attract S Ons. z
 A Distinguished Party C
 Dr. Gardner's party contains some k men. Among them are z President Alfred Atkinson of the r Iontanta State agricultural college, 2 n