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Show Utah Guard Charts Summer Road Job Two of Utah's most scenic canyons can-yons will be linked by a road being undertaken by Engineer units of the Utah National Guard according to Maj. Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, Utaht Adjutant General this week. The road construction project will connect colorful Provo Canyon Can-yon with Hobble Creek Canyon by way of Rock Creek Canyon between ' Provo and Springville. The road will run from Provo j Peak to Kolob Basin. I Unlike previous road projects built up the Utah Guard this one ! will later be blacktopped as a ! main road by the Utah County Commission. Guardsmen will build 5 miles of completely new road and realign, re-align, gravel and widen 22 additional ad-ditional existing miles. Road construction work will begin in June, 1960, while the Guard Engineers are undergoing undergo-ing their annual 15 days in summer sum-mer training, General Rich said. It will be a five year Guard project. proj-ect. The work will be done by some 400 troops of the 1457th Engineer Engi-neer Battalion, which has units in American Fork, Lehi, Price, Provo, plus elements of the 16th Engineer Light Equipment Co. of Springville. Gen. Rich said that the project will be supervised by Colonel Herbert L. Price, Commanding Officer, 115th Engineer Group in Salt Lake City. Lt. Col. Wm. M. Alleman, Commander of the 1457th Engineer Battalion, will be in charge of construction. |
