Show Aneth Paved Road Assured I Utah and Colorado Both P Plan n The Utah State Road commission commission commis commis- I sion slon took steps Monday to start i construction of a paved highway into ioto the Aneth oil field and to I hold a series of public Information Information information tion meetings on an interstate system in Utah county The road into Anneth some twenty miles of road north of Bluff to a point near the he confluence confluence confluence con con- fluence of Montezuma creek and the San Juan river is a county road The commission designated it for construction at an estimated estimated esti est I- I I mated cost of some and made plans to bring it Into Ioto the state system pending approval of the legislature next spring Robert Griffin chief engineer reported that oil eli companies have volunteered to spend ona on ona ona a bridge spanning the San Juan river U. U S. S Bureau of Indian affairs has offered and andEl andEl El EI Paso Natural Gas company has offered and engineering work on the bridge providing that the company can hang two gas lines on the bridge structure Final details of the effort will wll be made later he said Though that action takes care of the road from U U 47 7 into the remote producing oil-producing area It leaves several gaps in the pro pro- gram Several miles of road will have to be built across the Navajo Nav- Nav aj ao ajo Indian reservation from the bridge to the end of the state I road As news of the Utah plans came out this week a release from the office of Governor Stephen Stephen Stephen Step Step- hen of Colorado urged urged ed construction of a road Into the rich oil area from Cortez Cortes I dont don't think we can watt wait any longer long long- er the governor said as he suggested the Colorado commission commis slon sion approve a route from Cortez Cortez Cor Cor- tex to Aneth by way of or canyon The Colorado commission had previously favored a route across the Ute Indian reservation but i ithe the Indian tribal council had refused re re- reI re refused I fused to grant a way right-of-way Ellis Armstrong Utah State Road commission director reported report report- ed to the commission that 13 I worth of highway pro pro- will be advertised d t for r bid Md- bidding I ding within three months That's a little more than a third third third-of of the total 38 million dollar program the commission has had In its sights for the year |