Show ON ROUTE OF ANOTHER IMPORTANT HIGHWAY U S NO washington may 28 after an extended hearing before an y executive committee of highway officials the designation ct no iba has united states highway no 60 from mo through kansas colorado and to monticello utah where it will connect with the park to park highway highway no goes by way of missouri highway no 12 and kansas highway no 12 through parsons independence wellington and sublette kan its colorado route Is through trinidad A kansas delegation which included the states entire congressional delegation sought to extend no 60 through southern kansas and southern colorado but the designation was given to northern oklahoma the highway was extended from springfield mo to amarillo texas by way of Bartle vUle and ponca city okla the state of utah through its road commission had joined with he highway authorities of colorado kansas and missouri in asking that the route from springfield mo to monticello utah should be designated as united states route 60 prom halsenberg Wal colo to monticello the route Is that of united states route no which joins its parent route united states 50 at thompsons Thomp sons utah in the utah application mada to the executive committee of the american association of state highway officials which has charge of the numbering of routes on the federal highway system the expectation Is advanced that the new route now numbered ultimately ti will be continued from monticello ti probably by way of bluff and mexican hat to the utah arizona line and then by kayetta kayenta and tuba city to the grand canyon bridge thence north to fredonia ariz and kanab utah and so by way of the alon mt cannel highway to Ander sens ranch where it will join united states route 81 the salt lake los angeles highway under this plan united states route would finally become an additional transcontinental highway extending from newport va on the atlantic coast to los angeles A want ad in the times dent will find a buyer |