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Show Thompson News Notes By Virginia Gruver Virginia Gruver and her daughter joined Mr. and Mrs. George Dutos Saturday evening even-ing for a few hours of cards. They had an enjoyable evening-" . . . . Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Jeffries Jef-fries and family went to Montrose Mon-trose over the. weekend. Old man winter just fooled us. He's still around and mighty cold, too. A bunch of the boys took their four wheel drives and went toward the Indian reservation res-ervation Saturday, but ran into snow before reaching the reservation line. The snow isn't so deep but it's icy and the roadbed isn't very wide tip there in places. We don't need a Federal hiway over the Mountain to the Indian reservation, but do need a good road, even a good gravel road till they can pave it later on. A few lines from one of the County Commissioners Com-missioners "We have no intention of imroving this: road, and are not proposing it as an improved road between be-tween 40 and 1-70." State road engineers estimated the cost of any of these roads connecting con-necting 40 and 1-70 would cost between ten and twenty million dollars even to a secondary se-condary standard of a Federal Fed-eral hiway system, so the state is not interested in building it. As I said, we do not need a Federal hiway. I don't understand why the amount listed was $10 to $20 million, because the road over Boulder Mountain was through lava, all had to be blasted through, and it cost less than $500,000 for that road through lava. |