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Show NATIONAL PAIIK ROAD PROJECTS NOW SELECTED B. J. Finch, district engineer, United States bureau of public roads, announced Tuesday that plans for new national park roads in Utah have been completed, and construction will be undertaken this year, appropriation of fed- j eral funds having been made available. avail-able. A total of $300,000 has 'been appropriated, ap-propriated, of which $400,000 has been allotted for roads in forests and parks of Utah, $150,000 of this amount to be spent in Bryce canyon, and $250,000 in Zion national na-tional park. i A road survey has been made at Bryce running from the canyon lodge to the south near the rim of the canyon, about 20 miles to Podunk point, which has an elevation ele-vation of 9000 feet overlooking the country to the east, south and west. This section of the country, covered by the new road, has just been taken into the park by order of President Hoover. Work in Zion canyon will cover the construction of the new road from the Virgin river bridge, which was finished last summer, to the Union Pacific lodge as the first section of approximately miles. Actual construction work will start in March. Another section will be surveyed and put under construction from the Union Pacific lodge to the Temple of Sinawava, approximately approximate-ly miles. This road will have to be under construction by July 1, according to the terms of the appropriation. |