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Show Lake Powell Featured on Utah Hicihvvav Man Discover the Different World of Utah via the 1969 official state highway map which is now ready for free distribution to the ' public. The map -has been in continuous contin-uous publication since 1923. The first official map was produced in 1910, shortly af- ' ter the Legislature created the first Road Commission for the State. Each yearly publication of the state highway high-way map illusrates the progress pro-gress of the road grid from the horse-drawn scraper stage sta-ge to the mighty earth-moving machines now used i'.i highway , construction. According to J. Clark Elmer, El-mer, Public Relations Director, Direc-tor, Utah State Department of Highways, one million co-copies co-copies of the new maps were printed this year. This represents rep-resents an increase of 250,000 over the last 2 year's publication. pub-lication. The maps were printed prin-ted by Rand McNally & Co., Chicago, 111., for $57,250, or about six cents per map. The cover of the colorful map features a group of ex plorer scouts enjoying sunbathing sun-bathing on the shores of Lake Powell.: A visit to this fantastic fan-tastic land of red rock, sheer cliffs, mysterious coves is guaranteed to provide a new thrill a new experience. The Colorado River was explored ex-plored by the intrepid ex- plorer, Major John Wesley Powell a century ago. Mod ern highways make this fascinating fas-cinating area readily accessible; acces-sible; A picture of Major John Wesley Powell is also featured in observing the nation's na-tion's celebration of Major Powell Centennial. Inset map shows Powell Memorial Highway High-way route which closely parallels par-allels river trip' taken by the explorer in 1869. A picture commemorating the National Golden Spike Centennial this year is also on the map. The historic completion of the first transcontinental trans-continental railroad occurred May 10, 1869 near Promontory, Promon-tory, Utah also featured on the new map are photographs photo-graphs which illustrate skiers ski-ers enjoying "the greatest snow on earth," a view of the mystical land of Monument Monu-ment Valley that stretches for miles along the Utah-Arizona Utah-Arizona border, a scene from the famous Dinosaur National Nat-ional Park, Nativity scene at LDS Temple in- Salt Lake City, and many others. Efforts are made to make the map as easy to read as possible, with a clear nu'e-age nu'e-age chart for trip planning and with a size and fold esa-ily esa-ily possible to open the map in the smallest compact car. Over one hundred changes have been made on the map since the 1968 edition was printed. Most of the changes have been made to keep up with statewide highway improvements. im-provements. Major mileage changes have been made as Utah's Interstate Highway system is completed. Supplies of the new map are sent to the six highway administrative districts, to Chambers of Commerce, motels, mo-tels, national and state parks, information centers, military installations, service ser-vice centers and to individuals individ-uals requesting the map. One ' of the largest distributors distribu-tors of the map is the Utah Travel Council which disperses dis-perses over 350,000 of them all over the world. Cases of maps are also sent to trade shows in major cities like San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago, Chi-cago, New York and Los Angeles. |