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Show D.&R.G. SURVEY IS HER SMDRIDGEs LINE RUNS SOUTH VERNAL DUGWAY The Denver nnd Rio Grande surveyors, headed by M. L. Mltton, locating engineer, have passed the Sandridgo on thoir wny to Vernal, Ver-nal, says the Myton Free Press. Many of the people of the Uintah Basin who have crossed that famous ridge will bo surprised to learn that the road will climb over on much less than a 1 per cent grade. Just how much less hns not been Riven out, but it is understood under-stood it is nearer five-tenths than it is ten-tenths. It will also be surprising to learn that the altitude at the top of the ridge is lower than it Ih at the Co-Op corner In Vernal. At the tho latter point the altitude Is 5330 feet and at the top of tho ridge It Is ten feet lower. The survey runs from Myton to Independence in an easterly direction. At a point one mile west of Independence tho lino Is within four miles of Roosevelt. From Independence the line runs generally east to the confluence of the Dry Gulch nnd thu Uintah river, crossing that stream about one mile south of Fort Duchesne. From thnt point running south of the Chinaman's storo in a northeasterly north-easterly direction to the top of the Sandridgo, nnd from there easterly. The line will touch no higher points between Myton nnd Vernal than the top of the Sandridgo. The Asphaltum rldgo will be crossed cross-ed nt a point nlmut four miles south of the Vernal dugwny. The surveyors are camped about three miles nortliwest of Rnndlett. It has not been learned when another move will be mndc. Tho crew will likely suspend operations during thu Christmas Christ-mas holidays. Chief Engineer Gwyn, who hns been spending somo time with the crews to tho west, will bo In the Basin for several days. |