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Show - - - - - I COLORADO TO TOBID TOBID TOBID BID FOR OIL OILFIELD OILFIELD FIELD TRAFFICPlans TRAFFIC Plans by the state of Colorado Coloradoto Colorad/ Colorad Coloradto to divert Rangely wholesale and andretail andretail retail trade from Vernal to topoints topoints tpoints points inside Colorado prmci princi prmcipally principally pnncpally pally to Grand Junction and andCraig andCrag anCraig Craig Crag were revealed this week weekin weekin wee'in weein ' in the Associated Press dispatch dispatchfrom dispatchfrom from DenverThe DenverThe Denver The report said that the Colorado Col < . rado state highway is studying plans to highway 139 southward frorRangely . Rangely to Loma Lorna 19 miles fror y Grand Junction and to build a acutoU acutoff cut-off cut off cut-oU oU - - road from Highway . about 12 miles east of Artesta Artesia Artestato Artesiato . to Highway 64 84 just east of Rar Ran Rangely Rangely gely gelyAcordmg gelyAcording Acording Acordmg to the press dis dispatch dispatch di ; . patch Gov John C Vivian ask asked asked ' ed Mark U Watrous state high highway highway " way engineer to confer with th ' state highway advisory boar board boardand boardand and Grand Junction Juncl10n officialconcerning officialconcerning concerning road improvementfrom from the oil 011 center centerGov centerGov Gov Vivian wrote Now work is well under way on Highway Highway High Highway ! way 64 84 from Rangely to Meeker Meeker Meek er and the survey survey Ys is isalmost almost corr com corn complete cornplete plete for Cor the cutoff cff from Highway High Highway ' way 40 to the Rangely field 1 1know 1know know you will agree with mthat m that we should make every ef of effort offort ei eifort - fort to get the project from Lomto to Rangely in such shape that i imay l may be presented to the high highway highway way advisory advisory board in 111 ui Decem Decembt Decemher bt > ber her r for posssible posslhle . , inclusion mcluslOn i : the 1947 budget ' Mr Watrous st suggested suggested . ggested thacounties tha counties along the highwamight highwamight ' might help the road ' in P1aklng making the survey surveyMeanwhU surveyMeanwhilf MeanwhU Meanwhilf Utta.b Uttab Utah's Utahs . . 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W "ton ton " W yH I " ' J1 . . l vitt vitteomm , eomm " ' vttt vitt commented omm tea ted tedn tn on n Coloradoplans plans to declare that Utah , - iShoulibuild houi houibuild build a road between Bdnan2 Bdnan2and B and the Utah Colorado line ime dl di diContinued d ( Continued on Page 8) 8 ) Colorado to BidContinued Bid BidContinued ( Continued from pace page ontb ono onorectly on < ) rectly eastward so that Rangely Rangelytraders Rangelytraders traders would have a " Hood "ood ood good higl high highway way to Vernal Vernal Vt'rnal Vtrnal ' is the theclosest ' ' - clo closest , > est trading center to Hangely Rangely Hangelyand Rangelyand and is II ! now patronized by Han Ran Hangely Rangely Rai Raigely gely residents and business bUSII1t-ss bUSII1t ss busmtss - peo peopie peopie pe < pie le pieMr Mr ' ' leavitt 'Leavitt , disclosed Ulat that asecondary asecondary a " , secondary federal road from U US US S 40 to Bonanza was now unde under underconstruction underconstruction construction and scheduled for forcompldlOn forcompitlron complt.tion complttion compldlOn compitlron . by fallIn fall In commenting on Colorado s splan splans . plans plan ' ! for taking Vernal Vernals s trade tradeand trad and on Mr Leavitt s solution to tothe tothe o the problem Mayor B H String Stringham Stringham Strin ) ham declared Wednesday thatthe that thatthe ( the only way Utah can keep keepRangely keepRangely Rangcly Rangely oil 011 field trade is to tobuild build huild a four lane highway hlghway from fromthe fromthe fror the state line to Vernal Makehighway Make highway 40 a four lam- lam lant lamhighwa . - highwa highway highwayWt highwaywe highway highwawt wt we stward from the Colorado Coloradostate . state .tate tate line and we neednot need not fLar fear fLarColorado fearColorado Colorado competition competltion hi- hi hL ht hid - d dt ( < GlaredMeanwhile dared elared Glared Meanwhile Rangely oil men menand menand and Artesia business men were werepulling werepulling werepulling pulling for road improvf Improvt lrrnprove mt-nts mt nts rntnts rntntson mtntson mcntaon - on the thL present Highway 04 64 be betWLUI betwttn twecn tWLUI twttn Rangely Rangdy and Artesin Artesia ArtesinRangely ArtesiaRangely Rangely and Art Artt Ar ( < . sij .id id sia men travLlcd travtled travel travLl travtl traveled ed cd thl this " week to lO Denver DUlVLr Dtovtr to PT pre present present ( . sent 'lent lent ' Gov Vivian with i 1 r pt p < ( tl ti tltlOn tilion Raniely tion tlOn lion whictt which declared dLclared that Ran Rani Ranflpely , ely oil men preferred prefernd preferrtd Improvf improvt improvtmenl improvement ' ment menl of the present prt'It-nt prt'It prtIt nt . ' - RcUigely Hdngdy Rdngtly Arttsia Ar Artl ArUsia tl ttsia < ; Ia highwayThey highway They poinUd pointld potnttd out that the tht . pre present present present sent highway is 1'1 11 ' in poor condl condi condition condltlon condition tlon tion a and d that the quickest and andmost andmost andmost most feasible method of getlmg getting getlmgthe gettingthe gettingthe the road problem ' ! solved olved was toutilize toutilize to utilize the present highway to toU toUS40 U US40 S 40 US40Artesia Artesia backers backer backerq ' ! also will re- re remind remind - - - mind Governor Vivian that th thp thplimits , limits o of { the Rangely oil fiefhave fielt fief . have not yet been defined Pre Present Present sent indications arc are that it 18 Is 18dt Isdeveloping dt developing . veloping in a northl'Vcsterly northlVcsterly northyvesterly northyvesterlydirection northl'VcsterlydirectIOn ' direction toward Artesia Artesl Artesft ' They Theypoint Theypoint point out to the governor that it iti itis i is & i & unwise to build new roads to tothe tothe the field until the field is BC ac BCually acually acually ually e established tablbht.d tablbhtd cslablishtd . |