Show Sen Frank E Moss Urges To Build Road in Dutch JoInt Area Senator Frank E Mc Moss ss D Utah has urged Senator Clin Clin- Clinton f ton P Anderson D New Mex Mex- Mexico leo ico Chairman Senate Com Com- Committee on Interior and Insul Insul- Insular ar Affairs to hold a hearing I this session on a bill bUl to auth auth- authorize orize Federal construction of ofa ofa a road for Dutch John to Wyo Wyo- Wyoming ming State HIghway Sen Sen Moss said that the road was needed so that the I people in Dutch John Gap in inI I Utah will wUl not have to go Into Wyoming in order to reach I Manila ManUa the County Seat in Daggett County THE SENATE is spon by Senator Moss and Senators McGee and HIckey of Wyoming and companion bills bUls have been Introduced in inthe inthe the House of Representatives by Congressmen King and Peterson of Utah In his letter to Senator tor An derson Senator Moss said in part Both the Bureau of the Budget and the Department of have given un- un unI unfavorable un favorable reports on the bills I They have based their on the fact that there I was no crossing In the spots specified for a bridge before the Flaming Gorge Dam was constructed However they have overlooked the fact that I there was no community across the river at that time and therefore no need for far a abridge abridge bridge Since then the com com- community of Dutch John has been constructed and there are sixty or seventy high school students who go from Dutch John dally daily to Manila ManUa If there is no crossing by bridge when the Reservoir Is filled then the school chUd- chUd ren will have a long ride up through Wyoming in order to reach their classrooms each day WHEN THE closing of the Flaming Gorge Dam cuts the west east road between Dutch John and Manila the only connection between the two will be the highway from Ver nal which turns west at Green Green- Greendale dale Junction and traverses mountainous country for many mlles miles before dropping down to Manila Although this highway is a scenic route it Is dangerous in winter and at timEs timE's impassable It is about half as far from Dutch John to Manila by the present road as by the Greendale Junction road The highway improvement Involves crossing the Green River twice It is proposed to tomake tomake make one of of the crossings over the Flaming Gorge Dam the other a bridge across the reservoir A committee composed of representatives of the Utah and Wyoming Highway De and of the Bureau of Public Roads estimated that the cost of the bridge 1380 feet In length would be |