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Show - 10 SPEND SI 5000 ON ARROWHEAD TRAIL H Bad Stretch Through Shivwits Indian M Reservation to be Improved nt H Once, and All "Soft Spot" Elimi- H nated for Next Year'a Travel. H For the purpose of taking steps to BH push to immediate completion the M automobile highway between Salt BH Lake City and Ix)s Angeles, Cal., a BH meeting of the Arrowhead Trail as- H sociation is to be called nert week, to ftY convene then or soon afterwards, by BH President J. H. Manderfield. Mr. H Manderfield today received a letter BH from C. H. Bigelow of St. George, BH Maying that he will be here next week H for a conference on the subject. BH One urgent cause for immediate H action is a desire to secure the ex- BH penditure on the highway of a federal BH appropriation of $15,000, which is to BH revert to the federal treasury on Jan. BH 1 unless it be utilized according to H the terms associated with the allow- H friucr This appropriation is made BH specifically for the stretch of the At H rowhead trail which crosses the BH Shivwits Indian reservation in South- BH ern Utah. B In his letter to President Mander- BH field report is made by Mr. Bigelow H on conditions and needs in the Ar- H rowhead trail project as follows: H "The Indian reservation road is at H last about to be constructed, author- H ity having been granted the agent to BH 'egin grade work at once. The M-. BB javc county, Arizona, supervisors ex- BH pect me to meet their engineer at BH an early date to lay out the expendi- H ture of $250,000 between Littlefield BB and Mesquite, Clark county, Nev., B is constructing a bridge over the H Muddy river at St. Thomas. I "The reservation work, the im- H' ' provement near Littlefield and the M Muddy bridge mean that we dare H put on u regular advertising cam- BjB paign for business, because the Ar- BH rowhead trail will then simply out- BB class any other of the desert high-BH high-BH BB "A bridge over the Colorado, as above mentioned, will easily doub- le the present tourist business and in addition will undoubtedly result in the development of a large area of dry farm land between St. George and the river. BB "I am requested to assist in the location of the reservation road, also j to aid the Indian agent in carrying BH on the work. I have been asked by BB the Mojave county supervisor to aid BB in an advisory capacity. Governor BB Hunt desires that the Arrowhead PH Trail association submit a report BBj covering the country conditions from BH point south of St. George to the BB Colorado river near the Grand wash. BB This report is desired to be present- BB ed at the January session of the An. BB ona state legislature, to aid in se- BB curing the enactment of legislation BB providing for a bond issue. BB "My time for the next week should BB be given to the reservation work and PH the location work in Arizona near PPj Littlefield. From here I should o BB over the proposed route to the Colo BB rado river. It is my belief that the BB Utah portion of the Arrowhead Trail BBj rom the Indian reservation to the BB Arizona line should be surveyed at BB once and if iHBsibble roud building BH equipments should be brought in and J this construction carried on at the BBJ time the government work on the PPJ reservation is under way, as it will PP thereby be possible to exchange pHf cifuipment, men and supplies. In BBJ other words, I recommend that the P two jobs be handled us one, for the PJH Indian commissioner has authorized IB that the reservation work be done BB under the supervison of the Utuii PP sate engineer, Geo. K. McGonagale. BB "It is my desire und judgment PP tlnii all our efforts be put forth dur- BH ing the next two months toward the BBJ actual construction and improvements H . . previously outlined, to be follow -H d by a definite bid for the spring I travel, preparation for which in an BBJ advertising way can he carried on in BB the meantime. A word here a.s to BBa y . the volume of travel over this route: I W a ivtuilio ''i li. iv. i ii,-! llJl,, IIMIII , I VAugust. 181 cars; September, 281; W (rtober, 285. The present month r ' averages so far about eight cars per BBl H "If the gentlemen In Salt Lako BB (ity und along the Arrowhead trail can arrange to give us the support that will permit myserf or someone else tnking the lead in these matters hc returns to the state of Utah wi'l e, inside of a year, easily $50 l . every $5 expended. The letter was prepared last week and it is probable that President Manderfield will call u meeting :,s soon as Mr. Bigelow arrives next week, which the latter says he expects ex-pects to do. Accompanying Mr. Bigelow Big-elow from St. George will be Joseph Snow vice president of the Arrowhead Trail association. Deseret News. |