Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-08-15 | Page 6 | $128,000 Scenic Highway Cost

1 SCENIC HIGHWAY COST for Forest st Engineer Ill ip Reports Reports Reports' Re Re- ports ports' o r to U S S. S Aid May l y Hold HoldUp HoldUp Up Uh Construction To ro complete the tho scenic hl highway hway front from tho the head licad of ot Lambs Lamb's ean canyon on to JO the head of or American Fork canyon canon a L distance of oC eight miles mile will cost according ln to estimates es estimates es- es of or the tho cn engineers or a mill mil This will be he a n federal aid project a L forest road in which the tho government 0 will pa pay half hal the cost of or construction That the tho Tr preliminary steps ml might ht baI betaken bo be taken a conference was held yesterday 1 I at Tat Ogden Olden between th the forestry service cr and nd the commissioners of oC Salt SaU Lako o and Utah counties and antl State Road En Engineer Ira R. R Browning Dro I. I L. L F F. district forest engineer wn also pre present nt and while ho informed the committee that II funds runel for Cor forest roads had practically p been Jeen apportioned It might be he possible to secure s curc enough h from Crom the contingent fund to build otherwise it would have o to go o over o until 1921 Meanwhile J J. P P. Martin forest district dIstrict district dis dIs- engineer cn and Engineer will wilt go so over n the proposed route routt and Will witt submit A report on tho the matt matter r On the Cove e Fort forest rO road d Project which If is nineteen miles mUes in length all preliminary work has hu been completed and it is promised that a force will bo bl put to work at once There Thero am arc four Cour miles of rock work on tho the west westI westside westside side I e of tho the divide which will take Into the fall all to complete The 1110 road through Diamond canyon canon a n branch bruich of of- Spanish l Fork ork canyon canon has been SQ so badly damaged by cloudbursts lou that It Is Impassable and stockmen are areno arenow arenow now no compelled to drive their flocks locks I five sixty miles around a against tv seven miles through the canyon This road Is a count county road and It Is up to Utah county count commissioners to put pul it In shape