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Show State Read Commission Soys Costs Prohibitive Mm The State Road Commission Com-mission has refused to build the Book Cliffs highway, high-way, a road from' Vernal to 1-70, proposed by th Canyonlands Highway Association As-sociation as a direct route from Yelowstone National Nation-al Park to Grand Canyon. The action was not unexpected, un-expected, local backers of the route assuming for some time that after a state suhvey and route determination, de-termination, local efforts would be needed to rough through a ' route which might be 'improved and added to the State system at some later date. Grand county Commissioners Commis-sioners were informed of the State's decision Friday Fri-day at the regular regional region-al meeting of the -State Read Commission held in Vernal. State Road Commission spokesmen said they had studied two of the three proposed routes for the road. The route from Ouray, to PA Springs, down Hay Canyon to 1-70 near Cisco, is a 92-mcle road building project, Ihe Commission said, and it would cost an estimated $8 million to bring it up to secondary standards. |