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Show Statehouse Report... Six Projects in Southeast Area Due $1.25 Million from Bonds By C. Sharp Six southeastern Utah recreational projects which would cost more than $1.25 million are included in the list, of 41 projects propsed to be financed through a $20 million bond issue. . The Legislative Council unanimously approved the proposed bond issue August 16. The proposal will go to the 1973 Legislature for it? consideration. Sen. E. LaMar Buckner, R-Oregon, told fellow members mem-bers of the council that it is high time the state moved to meet future recreational needs and hopefully to lengthen length-en the stay of tourist visitors to the state. ."To buy lands now included in Wasatch Mountain State Park today would cost three to four times what the state paid several years ago," he said. Pead Horse Point Under the proposal Dead Horse Point State Park would get $200,000 to be used for providing a water system, rest rooms .sewage system and campground expansion. Goblin Valley in Emery County would receive $100, 000 to proviide rest rooms, a sewage system and campground. camp-ground. Goosenecks State Reserve would receive $50,000 to provide pro-vide rest rooms and a campground. Green River Recreation Area would receive $100,000 for rest roms, a campground and sewer system. Huntington Lake Huntington Lake, between Huntington and Fairview, would receive $150,000. This would provide an entry station, sta-tion, ranger quarters, maintenance main-tenance facility, vehicles and equipment, rest rooms, water wat-er system, sewage system, upgrade camp sites, provide a fish cleaning sattion, sanitary san-itary dump station, power, and boat docks. Millsite Lake Beach near Ferron would receive $300, 000. This would provide an entry station, ranger quarters, quar-ters, maintenance facility, vehicle and equipment, rest rooms, water and sewage systems, campground, fish cleaning station, ' sanitary dump station and boat docks. Monument Valley would receive re-ceive $50,000 to provide a water supply. . - - Newspaper Rock Newspaper Rock would receive re-ceive $50,000 to provide a water . system, rest rooms, picnic sites and to acquire 1,030 acres of Bureau of Land Management land at $2.50 an acre and 40 acres of state sta-te land at $20 an acre. Scofield Lake would receive re-ceive $100,000 to provide rest rooms, sewage system and campground. The ' big " beneficiaries In more populous areas would include : Great Salt Lake Park, $5.5 million. This would pay for raising the level and riprap-ing riprap-ing slopes of the causeway road west from Syracuse to the north end of Antelope Island. It also would provide .$500,000 for improving a beach along the south shore of the lake accessible to 1-80. - No Parkway (No money was included for a Jordan River Parkway which still is in planing stages, stag-es, although this proposed improvement was recognized to be cf high priority.) Pioneer State Park, $5 million mil-lion to provide a pioneer village near This Is the Place State Monument and other facilities along the Old Mormon Trail from Hen-efer Hen-efer to Salt Lake City. Bonneville Salt Flats, $1 million to provide an eUTfy station, ranger quarters, maintenance facilities, water and sewage systems, power and a campground. Starvation Lake, Duchesne County, $1 million. This This would provide a campground, camp-ground, sanitary facilities and other installations for this center expected to be one of the most heavily used units in the state parks system. |
