Show Half Dollar Highway I New Link in Scenic Park Chain Improved motor transportation between between be bc- tween the north and south rims of the Grand canyon was assured when Ray Lyman Wilbur secretory secretary of oC the interior announced the award of oC a road construction contract The fulfillment of or this contract will initiate a highway project for Grand canyon national park to tobe tobe tobe be known as Grand canyon cast ap apt Construction of the new hi highway hway which will also afford an improved connection with nearby Mesa Verde ZIon and Bryce canyon national parks and also the more northern ones Including Yellowstone is in line with the presidents president's policy of at proceed Ing with federal construction programs pro grams to relieve unemployment If weather permits work will begin about January 1 l. While the road construction to be undertaken immediately covers ers only two sections one between Desert View and the boundary line of or Grand canyon canon national park and the other in the Waterloo hills section each more than three miles In length the entire project contemplates a high high- I way more than thirty miles long ong which will ivill connect the park with United States highway 89 at Cameron Ariz a distance of oC five fifty m miles Jes from Crom Flagstaff Only federal lands controlled either by the Indian forest forestor or park services will be crossed throughout the entire route which offers ready access to the Navajo Indian Indian Indian In In- dian and Painted desert country YEAR THREE PROJECT Engineers of ot the bureau of public roads who are c cooperating operating with the national park service on this project believe that about three years will be required to complete the project which presents a variety of construction construction construe construe- tion Hon and arid offers all the difficulties to tobe tobe tobe be expected in such an inaccessible region A foot viaduct two major bridges at len least t fifty feet long ten smaller bridges brides and many drainage drainage drain drain- age ue structures arc are included in the plans pans With a view to making the Grand canyon east approach an outstanding example of modern road building from both construction and landscape landscape land land- viewpoints Secretary Wilbur stated that exhaustive preliminary studies h have e been conducted by land land- architects and engineers of or the national park service He believes that when the highway is completed it will vill offer a scenic route unexcelled in n the southwest and will add another to the list of superlative scenic drives in the national parks MULES IULES PACK SUPPLIES New road construction projects for forthe forthe forthe the Grand canyon national park recall recall recall re re- re- re call the difficulties and dangers involved in In the construction a few years ago of the famous Kaibab trail and steel suspension bridge to connect the north and south rims of the canyon All AU materials ats and supplies even drinking water vater had to be packed into the canyon on the backs of oC mules To one construction camp alone on the south rim eleven tons of oC TNT were carried down trails so rough that traveling empty handed would have lave been a hazardous undertaking Down such trails sure footed tooted mules carried all the materials used in the steel suspension brid bridge e across the Colorado river which weighs tons |