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Show LL YEAR ROAD FOR BASIN PLANNED State Commission - Approve Ap-prove Additional Highway High-way to Grand Canyon Additional highways to ha Included In-cluded in tha atate highway aya-tam aya-tam which will gtva an all yar round highway with tha Uinta baaln and additional reads which will lead to tha scenle beauties at ISl.ttt.44. and of Caldwall, Batty 4 Batoa of Vernal. tt U It. tar four bridge ranging In apan from ten ta twanty feet, tha estl-mata estl-mata waa IU.7I1 U. and blda srer. Toung Co, 14.tti.4; Waaatch cpmpany. t!7.tT4lt. and tha Caldwall Cald-wall lrm. tl4.Ttl.4. Only ona hid waa mada for tha aurfaclng of tha half-mlla near Varnal with an experimental aurfaclng aur-faclng mada from tha rock aaphalt found near by. Tha aatlmata on thla waa t90lt tt. and tha Youiut hid waa il,40:.40. It la probable that thla work will ba, dona by force account. Hide alee were opened far the eonatructlon of I.T7 mllaa of pavement pave-ment through Nephl city. The en-glnaere' en-glnaere' aatlmata. Including all ooe-.a. on thla work waa tM.eil.lt. j or IIMCt.Tt a mile. Blda sub-, milled ware. Waaatch Orading company. I.l4t St. or IM.t74.1T a mile; Raynolda-Ely Construction company. Ml. Ill": Alaten a Hoggin. Hog-gin. 4l.t-l.tt: Gray a Murdork. I4t.tt0.ll; Olof Neleon. Itt.141.44. Olbhona a Reed alao bid. but failed to Include one Item In thalr tender. southern Utah have been determined deter-mined on by the atate road commission. com-mission. The secretary of agriculture la j asked to approve a highway from ' Anderson'a ranch to Kanab, by way of Zlon Katlonal park and Ml. Carmel. and aleo a apur from thla road running from flock villa . south to tha Arlaona line. It will he urged that Arlaona be asked to connect this spur with Frednnla on its federal highway system, k thus giving through routes he-- he-- twssa aisn Nallaiial perrann Tr" donls, which Is tha neareat town on the north to the Grand Canyon National park. Tha L'lnta basin nutlet would connect with the present Victory highway at Duchesne, thence following fol-lowing up the Strawberry river to the confluence of the Avlntsquln. end up that canyon th Soldier Summit This route, of about fifty ml I a will entail considerable new construction, as at placea at present pres-ent there Is only a trail over the route, and at places 'no road at all. It Is understood that it follows fairly closely a aurvey mada several sev-eral years ago by the Denver a Rio Orande railroad Into the-Uinta baaln. Advantages of thla road are that It can be eo lonated as to remain re-main practically free from snow most of the year, and will also afford af-ford much less climbing for traffics traf-fics between Salt Lnke nnd the L'lnta basin using Spanish Fork ca n yon. - The stste commission opened bids Monday afternoon for the gravel surfselng of i.l tulles of road between Vernal and Twist canyon. For the grading of the entire distance and the gravel aurfaclng aur-faclng of all but one-half mile of It. the engineers' eatlmate for costs. Including materlala. engineering and tnepectlon furniehed by the state, was tt7.7M.tl. The hid of A. O Toung A Co. waa Ht.tl&.44; MhOIMfHiOrnnitptt |
