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Show PROPOSED NEW KINGMAN ROAD GETS PUBLICITY Salt Lake and King-man Papers Pa-pers Boost Project; Various Vari-ous Organizations Stiirru-late Stiirru-late Attention to Route The proposed construction of a highway link connecting the Arrowhead Ar-rowhead Trail at St. George with U. S. 66 highway at Kingman, Arizona, is receiving much publicity pub-licity by newspapers throughout the interested sections, as recon-naisance recon-naisance work gets under way. C. H. Bigelow, a pioneer good roads booster, with the aid of former members of the Arrowhead Trails Association, has succeeded in reorganizing re-organizing the old body and is working diligently lining up the various communities whose backing back-ing is needed to make the project proj-ect a success. The chambers of commerce of St. George and Kingman King-man are actively supporting the move. It is the intention to break a travelable automobile road through the strip this spring, a ferry across the Colorado river will be in operation op-eration and pressure will be brought to bear to have the route included in the highway systems of Utah and Arizona. Mr. Bigelow is now on the strip making a preliminary survey and after returning here the latter part of this week will go on to Kingman, where much interest has been aroused over the revivi-cation revivi-cation of the old route. The Salt Lake Tribune, in a double column article last Saturday Satur-day set forth the facts concern ing the shortcut which will reduce the distance from St. George to Kingman, and consequently from Salt Lake to Phoenix, by many miles. OtheT Salt Lake papers also have given publicity to the project. proj-ect. According to the Kingman Miner the Lions club of that city as a unit favors the construction of this road. The Miner Says: At the Lions club luncheon yesterday yes-terday the proposition of the clu'o getting behind the proposed shortcut short-cut between the Arrowhead Trail at St. George and U. S. 66 at Kingman, was presented. Also the furthering of the road between Kingman, Phoenix and Nogales. This road would eventually be a link in a thoroughfare from Vancouver Van-couver to the Mexican border, connecting up with the network of roads in Mexico and those in Canada. The road below St. George will be an all-the-year route and would be largely used by the citizens citi-zens of Utah and Arizona. The organization or-ganization stands back of the proposition as a unit. The same paper also reports that the project was taken up at the meeting of the Rotary club of that city. The Rotarians felt that the value of the road would be great and it was the opinion of members that the residents of that section of Arizona should do all in their power to further the work. |