BRIDGE AUGUSTA, SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH 1907 old antique vintage print picture
BRIDGE AUGUSTA, SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH. Span, 320 feet at base of abutments; height. 265 feet from stream to top of causeway; thickness, 83 feet top of causeway to under side of arch; width, 35 feet narrowest place on causeway; altitude at base. 6,050 feet. Spans White river about 15 miles from it; head and about 65 miles from its junction with the Colorado river. There is water in this canyon only in the early spring. Formation is pale red sandstone of Triassic period. White River canyon is about 600 feet deep, so the bridges do not reach up to the mesa country above. The Augusta is about 60 miles northwest from Bluff City and about 65 miles east - a little south - of Hite, or "Dandy Crossing" of the Colorado River From a painting by H. Culmer. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Scientific American. Provenance: "The Americana "; Editor-in-Chief Frederick Converse Beach, Managing Editor George Edwin Rines, Published by Scientific American Compiling Dep't, New York. Type: Antique book illustration.
Size: 4634px × 3865px
Location: Utah
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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