Show Dutch John to Colorado Road Planned by Group A special meeting arranged cd by Albert Neff of the Daggett County Board Doard of Commissioners was held recently during the regular meeting of the Sweetwater County Commissioners Commissioner The purpose of the meeting was to discuss plans for an Interstate road through Downs Down's Park to Dutch John that calls for three miles of road through Sweetwater County THE VISITING delegation Included Moffat County Corn Commissioners Uinta Wyoming County Commissioners Daggett Daggett Dag gett County Commissioners representatives tives of the Colorado State Highway Department Wyoming Highway Department Department Depart Depart- ment department heads and road com com- commissioners missioners from Utah and Wyoming Also in attendance were US U.S. Forest Service and officials from the Ashley Ash ley Icy National For Forest st and Vernal District District Dis Dis- representatives Utah State Senator Ralph A A. A of Vernal acting as chairman urged the cooperation of Sweetwater County and Wyoming in securing funds funds' for the interstate in in- He He lle pointed out that this Interstate interstate in In- will will open a new gateway to Dinosaur Dinosaur Di National Park Flaming Gorge Recreational Area and Yellowstone National National Na Na- Prak THE UTAH STATE Highway Department Department Depart Depart- ment presented a study that predicted an increase from people per year visiting the Flaming Gorge Area to two million per year thanks to the new route The proposed road would extend from froma a present road in Colorado to Vermillion Creek in Browns Brown's Park to Minnies Gap where it would join the East Side Highway Moffat County Colorado Colorado Col Col- orado Commissioner Walt Davis stated that all but seventeen miles of the road from Maybell Colorado through Browns Brown's Park is paved The Sweetwater County Commissioners Commission Commission- ers erSt State Highway Commissioner E E. E L L. L and the State Engineers from the Wyoming Highway De Department stated stated stat stat- ed that although they had not been aware that the interstate involved Sweet Sweetwater water County they would give it favorable favorable favor favor- able consideration providing 1 funds can be made available A MOVE was made to form a Tri Tri- Corner Corner- Development Committee to include in in- include clude representatives from from Sweetwater and Uinta Counties in Wyoming Moffat County Colorado and Daggett County in Utah which would include an elected elect elect- ed official from each concerned county and two lay citizens The purpose of this organization would be to promote all types of development in the Three Corner area of the states of Wyoming Colorado and Utah Willis H H. Heikes chairman of the Board of County Commissioners of Sweetwater County indicated that he would make appointments appointments' to this committee committee com com- mitte sometime sometime in the near future |