Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-11-15 | Page 20 | Scenic Highway Survey Slated

SCENIC HIGHWAY SURVEYSLATED Arrangements were being completed com-pleted by the state road commission Monday to cooperate with the federal fed-eral bureau of roads in a reconnaissance reconnais-sance survey of an entirely Dew scenic highway extending approximately approxi-mately 100 miles from the natural bridges near Monticello westerly to U. S. highway a9. commission offices that the state field party would join the govern- ment surveyors for the start of work on December 1. Parties under the personal direction direc-tion of Thomas H. McDonald, chief of the United States bureau of public pub-lic roads, and 1 I. Hughes, assistant chief, already have finished a preliminary pre-liminary survey through the coun- -ties of San Juan, Wayne and Garfield. Gar-field. Notice that the government agency wished to inaugurate a general gen-eral reconnaissance survey December Decem-ber 1 was transmitted to the stats road commission by J. B. Finch, district dis-trict engineer for the federal bureau. bu-reau. The proposed highway, official said, will make easily accessible an area of scenic grandeur heretofore reached only by trail.