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Show Park Commission To Build Shelter At Dead Horse Point Construction of a handsome visitors' shelter will begin next week, the Utah State Park and Recreation Commission announced an-nounced today. Contract for erection of the $15,047 structure has been let to Jerico Construction Company of Salt Lake City. Completion is expected within 60 days, in time for the heavy traffic expected to visit Dead Horse Point State Park this year, said Aldin O. Hayward, Park Commission director. di-rector. The new center will be 120 feet long and 95 feet wide, constructed con-structed of native stone and steel beams. Part of it will be open to the sky and part will be enclosed en-closed within rock walls. Jointly designed by the Park Commission and the State Build-ingBoard, Build-ingBoard, the shelter will be located loc-ated on the very tip of Dead Horse Point. Visitors to the Park ( may stay under the shelter and lookout over 5,000 square miles of southeastern Utah. The area which includes the proposed Canyonlands National Park presently pres-ently under consideration by the U.S. Senate. Design of the new shelter is in a sunburst shape to give viewers a feeling of the vastness in the panorama of canyon; gorges, mountains, rivers, buttes, domes and plateaus, which can be seen from Dead Horse Point. Work completed in the park which will complement the visitors' visi-tors' shelter has been the grading grad-ing of roads, installation of a water system, picnic tables, fireplaces fire-places and the building of camping camp-ing sites. A protective rock wall has also been constructed around the edge , . of the actual Point as a safe?', guard for small children, Mr. ' Hayward said. The best place to find a help- ing hand is at the end of your own arm. j |