Show Dowd Mountain Road Open Soon to Traffic Traffic over the new section of road known as the Dowd Mountain cutoff on Highway 44 from Vernal to Manila will willbe willbe be allowed within I a a week according to late latest latent t reports from road officials THIS NEW five mile five mile road under construction construction con con- by W W. W W. Clyde Company will eliminate the Sheep Creek dugway section section sec sec- tion of road and shorten the distance to Manila by over six miles The new r road rad ad has been built through heavy cuts and huge fills fills' along the mountain side of very difficult road building terrain When opened for use use the road will have a gravel surface but paving is anticipated iO sometime next t year year THE ROAD Is being built by the Utah St State Highway way Department the Bureau Bure u of Public Roads and U U. S S. S Forest Service Ser Ser- vice Since the creation of Flaming Gorge Reservoir lr b Dutch John and Greendale school t children in the upper upper grades and senior high school have hav been bussed daily dally to Manila to school The route has Included in in- eluded the steep winding highway from Summit Springs through Sheep Creek Canyon t r During the 1965 flood In Sheep Creek the road was closed and the school child ran ren were re ferried across cross Flaming Gorge Reservoir at Antelope Flat and Lucerne Valley The U US U.S. S mall mail also uses the Sheep Cheek route every day THE SHORTER route Will provide a safer all weather all weather road during the winter winter win win- ter months and provide Manila residents a shorter distance to Vernal the closest shopping area Over 31 years of planning and cam have gone into the r road from Green River Wyoming to Vernal of which the the Dowd Mountain cutoff Is the thelast the thelast thelast last section to be Improved All of the road is now paved with the exception of th the new cutoff sec section lon |