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Show ' CANYON AND SANPETE ROADS HAY EEI FEDERAL AID c-ite Recommends Projects If Approved Government yill Furnish 74 Per Cent of Costs. Zion National park connee j,lsainl an all year road out of the Unit:i basin wore placed a the state V recommended Isnun of federal roads by ac-iU1 ac-iU1 0f the state road eommis-Monday. eommis-Monday. If approved by secretary of agriculture the floral government may share 3 the construction cost to the stout of 74 per cent. Six new branches to the fed-enil fed-enil aid system, in all embrace-about 317 miles of now r4l, are to be submitted for approval. With those additional addi-tional roads the state will have f:st about designated the full niikure of federal roads allowed, al-lowed, or about 7 per cent of tt mileage of all roads in the state. Basin Road Route. The new Vint a Basin outlet proposed by the state road commission would extend from K ranch to Duchesne, thence alons a new route through. Avintaquin canyon to Soldier Summit a distance of 50 miles. Originally the federal road system sys-tem recommended contemplated contempla-ted following the road from Duchesne to Fruitland and . thence to Heber City, Park City and Salt Lake via Par- lev's canyon. Considerable : new construction will be made : necessary yet the new road is ' said to follow along the high mountain range in such a way ' as to be pratically free from snow the year round. Sanpete Applies Other new roads which the secretary is asked to approve for the federal system are from Hustle south to Mt. Pleasant and to Spring City, thence west to Chester over the Salt Creek canyon road to Nephi, 46 miles if new ioad. From Anderson's ranch on tne Arrowhead trail to Toquer-rille, Toquer-rille, Springdale, east out of Zion National park to Mt. Car-mel, Car-mel, southeast to Kanab ami the Arizona state line, in Arizona, Ari-zona, 12 miles. From Valley City in Grand country 70 miles of additional road. Moab Road Named. From Piockville a branch ould take off from the road above mentioned passing over the Virgin river and thence to the Big Plains county south through Moab and Monticello, 'hence east to the Colorado line 118 miles, furnishing connections connec-tions with the Mesa Verde Na-tnal Na-tnal park. From Tremonton north up 'he Malad valley to the Idaho lu- 21 miles. With the RockvMe - Big Plins road placed on the federal fed-eral system of highways the national park service will doubtless proceed at once to advertise for bids for erecting $40,000 bridge over the Rio "'gin for the 'first step of huiMing an outlet from Zion Rational Park to connect with tlie Grand Canyon highway. Private Aid Offered. ate and park engineers had a tentative under standing that if the road were given this recognition, the bridge would be built. The state road commission however how-ever will undertake to raise some finances for building the road to connect the new bridge with the Big Plains. One local organization has proffered to underwrite a part of the $25,-000 $25,-000 needed if the governor will guarantee that the next legislature legisla-ture will repay the amount. In the meantime recommendations recommen-dations will be submitted by the commission to B. J. Finch, district engineer of the federal bureau of public roads that he take up with the Arizona road department the matter of putting put-ting the road from the Arizona state line past Hurricane to Freedonia on the federal aid 'service. It is believed that the forest service can be induced to improve the road leading from Freedonia or Kanab to the Kai-bab Kai-bab forest. . |