Show oJ ri riNE fiND NE NEW S SCENIC ENIC I I I I ROUTE II J Proposed posed Highway Will Connect Bryce and andI J 4 I Zion Roads I IJ Howard ard Means state road roar engineer engli engi engl- i ne neer and nei f. f an and l B E. E J. J Finch district road I engineer peer for the federal e eral bureau burea l of ot j I roads have discovered a n new w ro roif that will wUl connect the highways j I to Bryce's ce's ces canyon canon and Zion National 1 i an round all road I and cut ut tho distance between the i park parle and the canyon from the pres I ent eat ISO 1St miles to eg seven seve seven ty-seven miles t i As to the now proposed route En En- Means w who bo has just returned I J from a trip over proposed the proposed route said sad I The Zion National park CarI Car Car- I mel route connects the three scenic points of greatest present Interest In Utah Cedar Breaks Zion patk k a andI and Bryce Bryce wit with I a mileage of as asi i against miles by wa way of Hurricane Hurri- Hurri j I cane and Kanab and miles I through Rockville and the proposed cutoff cuto of ot the Big Plains country This connection will make ble a cont continuous trip und and will eliminate eliminate eliminate nate returning by ny part of the road already traversed i I It will wUl eliminate the thene ne necessity of construction of ot a bridge across across' the Virgin river at and also of ot forty-five forty miles of ro road d in Arizona which would be n ces- ces sary for foi th the ROckville connection with the Kanab Hurricane-Kanab route It will provide an Utah all-Utah connection connection con- con between the Zion National parI parks park highway or the Arrowhead trail and the Grand canyon hIgh hIgh- wa way over o a summit feet In elevation elevation ele ele- ele- ele ration above sea level This is a lower summit than han that over either of the present connections of ot these thase two routes in Utah on the Sevier- Sevier Cove Fort road and arid on on the Orton nah-Orton road Viewed from an economic standpoint stand stand- point p it connects Mt Carmel and Kanab with the railroad at Cedar over an year all-year route fifteen miles milea shorter than the present distance of these points from the railroad at Marysvale The Ehe Marysvale Carmel Carmel Carmel Car Car- mel route passes over a summit feet In elevation which la is blocked by snow a about four months e each ch year The Tho new route also provides road facilities to s several veral thousand acres of f ex excellent ellent dry f farming arming and irrigated ed land lying along the proposed route We saw dry farm corn growing growing grow grow- ing tag on a ranch west of ot Mt 1 Carmel and the harvesting of ot a crop of gooseberries which considering the remoteness of this ranch Is of at startling start- start ling Hag proportions The proposed route rout is twenty twenty- five miles long with ten miles of construction where the maximum grade will be bo 5 per cent and fifteen miles where the maximum grade will be only 3 per per cent It crosses a summit feet which Is so l lo located located lo- lo that snow troubles are practically practically eliminated Nine miles of the road is 16 within the boundary of Washington county and extending across the lower end of ot Zion National National National Na Na- park parle The remaining sixteen miles are in Kane ane county Only six miles of the twenty- twenty five present a any y difficult construction construction construe construe- tion tion problems and even these are r similar to those which ha have haye e Been Deen met in iii other projects within this state tate The Tho investigation was carr carried I e d through with the tho assistance of ot Valter Waler Val Wal- wai waiter ter er Reusch superintendent of Zion National Rational park a and d Alfred Alfred- Russell park ranger and of the county commissioners commissioners com com- missioners of ot Kane county Very valuable assistance also was rendered rendered rendered ren ren- dered dered by John Winder of f Spring Spring- thorough knowledge of the country made it possible to find so feasible a route |