Show m HIGHWAY HWAY TO 10 VI WHITE TE RIVER At the r recent cent meeting of the advisory adVisory ad- ad board oard l of the state highway department favorable e action was was tal taken en on the request of the county commissioners of Rio Blanco county that a state highway be bo established connecting upper White river with state highway No 40 at or near Phippsburg or Yampa This was was done to allow Rio Blanco county to use a portion of or its joint maintenance maintenance maintenance nance fund In the construction of the proposed road up White river to Ripple creek thence over Ripple Ri creek divide to the head of Williams fork ork and via Pyramid and Pinnacle to Yampa I IRio Rio Blanco county Is to to build the road in that county about S 8 mi raises miles es and 4 miles will remain for Routt county to construct Preliminary surveys show that the he grades will not have to exceed 6 G per cent and that the thC entire cost of the construction construction tion will rom to 3 By the building of at this conne connection tion between the upper valleys of the Yampa and White rivers rivera l Meeker leeker will be brought within one days day's drive to Denver by auto the distance being reduced to miles An advantage advantage advantage ad ad- vantage will be derived by Routt county in making it far more easy to reach White river points from tram the southern portion of this county while Trappers Trapper's lake will be made accessible by auto as s t the e Fr Forest st 1 service has reconstructed the road reaching that popular resort from the west so 80 th that t It can now be reached reach reach- ed cd by auto Steamboat Sentinel |