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present bridges a structure still older than the Edwin Bridge 
might be found, the writer recently (1921) made an investigation 
of the area and was rewarded by finding the remnants of a col¬ 
lapsed bridge, situated in White Canyon about two miles above 
the Augusta Bridge. The abutments of this bridge are still 
standing, one of them in an excellent state of preservation, and 
the other badly disintegrated and largely removed. The greater 
part of the collapsed arch has been carried away by the stream 
across the channel of which it had fallen. In point of size this 
bridge had a span as great as that of the other bridges, but its 
height was somewhat less. The same evidences of origin, in the 
form of undercutting stream-action and the abandonment of 
certain parts of the old channel, are present here as elsewhere. 
As a name for the remnants of this mighty structure is suggested 
the “Fallen Monarch.” 
The “Natural Bridges National Monument” was created by 
official proclamation in 1908, under the administration of Presi¬ 
dent Roosevelt. In 1909 the boundaries were somewhat enlarged 
and Hopi Indian names were given to the bridges as follows, 
Kachina (Carolyn), Sipapu (Augusta) and Owachomo (Edwin). 
The older names, however, had become so thoroughly entrenched 
in the minds of the public that these official designations were 
never widely employed, and, in consequence, were soon lost sight 
of. It is believed that any effort to bring them into general usage 
would be of questionable value. 
The Iron County bridges are not to be thought of as possessing 
the same majestic grandeur such as characterizes those' in San 
Juan County. They are not ‘nearly so large, and perhaps in 
some respects not so graceful, but on the other hand, they possess 
certain points of distinction that easily justify their being men¬ 
tioned in connection with bridges of the other type. 
Cedar City is situated immediately at the western base of the 
Markagunt plateau,, and 35 miles from Lund, the nearest station 
on the Los Angeles and Salt Lake railway. In this vicinity the 
regularity of the western face of the plateau is interrupted by 
the presence of a deeply eroded canyon and its tributaries. This 
is Cedar Canyon. Eight miles above its mouth the canyon 
bifurcates. The south fork contains a good automobile road on 
through to the top of the Plateau. The north fork, however. 
