Williams news., 1922-02-17
NEWS FROM GRAND CAM
 TON NATIONAL PARK
Change of Superintendents..

Change of Superintendents.
 Colonel w. w. Crosby of Cor
 onado, California has been ap- pointed by Secretary Fall, sup
 erintendent of the Grand Can
 yon National Park and is ex- pected to relieve the Acting
 Superintendent, John R. White
 about February 18th. Upon
 his relief Superintendent White
 will return to his permanent
 station at Three Rivers, Cal
 ifornia, as superintendent of
 the Sequoiah & General Grant
 National Parks.
 Travel for January.
 The total number of visitors
 to Grand Canyon in January
 was 39O9 or 1917 more than
 came in December. This com pares favorably with records of
 past years:
 January, 1920 4166 January, 1921 41S1 January, 1922 39O9 Only PIP fewer people en- tered this January than in Jan uary, 1921. Considering the
 general falling off in travel throughout the country and the
 financial stringency this is an excellent showing and indicates the growing popularity of the place.
 Roosevelt Chalet
 The Santa Fe Go. and the Fred Harvey Go. have had force of 15 to 20 men construct ing Roosevelt Chalet near the mouth of Bright Angel Creek on the North Side of the Colo rado River. Substantial stone cottages and a central mess hall and social center are well un- der way. No expense is being spared to make the camp one of the attractions for Grand Canyon visitors, especially those who wish to make the mule-back trip from rim to rim via the new Kaibab Suspension Bridge and Kaibab Trail.
 There are many fascinating and scenic side trips from Roos- evelt Chalet. notably up the Box Canyon to Phantom Creek and to Ribbon Falls. This cascade is perhaps the most colorful waterfall in America and will undoubtedly be the Mecca for many artists.
 It is expected that Roosevelt | Chalet will be ready for tour ists about May 1st.
 kaibab Suspension Bridge.
 This remarkable suspension mule bridge" swung from granite wall to granite wall l sixty feet above the turbid i Colorado in the depths of the Grand Canyon is in daily use by the National Park Rangers and Fred Harvey Pack trains. It was finished in May last, and has stood all tests of travel and weather. The bridge has link ed the two sides of the Grand Canyon and makes possible North Rim development and trans-canyon travel. It is safe to say that within a year or so the mule trip from rim to rim will become the great scenic tourist journey of the United States.
 kaibab Trail.
 The Park Service has a trail gang at work improving the trail from the Suspension Bridge to the North Rim and by the time that snow has disa D. peared from The Presidents Forest on the kaibab Plateau. North Rim, the trail will be in shape for tourist travel. 1 ataI Accident
 On February 9th. Trail Fore man Rees B. Griffiths, National Park Service, lost his life in a rock slide white worh 'ng on the i k arab Trail ncas the mouth of Bright Angel Creek.
 An hour before the accident Foreman Griffiths had set off a big T. N. T. blast which tore ] down a rock bluff on the route ( 0f the trail. The blast was so 1 successful that he reported by : to the superintend- ent's office that a job which night have taken six weeks could be finished in few days. 1 Returning to the scene of the l blast he, with two other men at to pry loose a mass of ' rock left by the blast. Failing S % loosen the mass the men