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Show OND CANTON ADVANCES FAST! Major Portion of Half Mil-, lion Will Be Expended on ' jvorth Rim Rads 0il Mulch Process is Problem Tlie major ' portion of more 'n $500,000 being spent on : ds in the Grand Canyon na- ! park this year is going on e north rim roads, accordmg : m R Tillotson, park super-4 super-4 nVndent. Most of the money is iring spent on applying an oil-. oil-. d mulch surfacing. ;i In addition to the work being ,ne within the park, some thir- een and one-half miles of new 1; md are being constructed . th ft Kaibab forest to- Lrds the park. When this is completed the road from Kanab i;' o the Park lodge at Bright An-l An-l ' i point will have been en-s en-s 1ireiy reconstructed, with the c eKeption of a stretch coming off the mountain at the north, ; near the forest boundary. S: Oil processing of roads with-: with-: in the park is not an easy ,'l task especially on the north rim. !? The oil is being hauled from the rail head at Cedar City, which j i3 175 miles from the park boundary. i': with scores of carloads of oil i required, the "oil hauling is no simple task. The difference in : altitude alone between the low r point on the trip, near Toquer- vilie, and the top of the Kaibab, i- at the rim, is approximately one mile. Whitehead & Cox of St. George S: are handling the hauling of the oil and another Utah firm, Cram & Bowman, of Kanab, are sub- r: contractors on gravel hauling for one of the park contractors, Lord " & Bishop of Sacramento, Calif. California contractors got the Tiulk of the work on the north rim and throughout the park, just as Utah contractors have "been able to cut under California Califor-nia prices on several of the contracts con-tracts let in connection with the Hoover dam. Lord & Bishop took the contract con-tract for surfacing the Bright Angel Po"mt-Point Imperial-Cape Royal drive on the north rim. The distance was 25. S miles and surfacing work began in June, says a letter from George L. Collins, ranger in tho Grand Canyon national park. Tho contract con-tract price was $251,552.50. Some reverses were encountered encoun-tered due to improper quality of materials, but approximately 15 miles have been completed to date. The contracting firm believes be-lieves it will be possible to complete com-plete the work this fall, but much will depend on the weather wea-ther and other considerations. O. A. Lindberg of Stockton, Calif., has an $S1,3S0.40 contract con-tract for surfacing the 9.6 miles of highway leading from the north entrance of the park to join with the Lord & Bishop contract and thus complete the road to the hotel at Bright Angel An-gel Point. Work began in June and is expected to be completed complet-ed early in October. Unlike the oil surfacing work done on the Utah highways, which is mixed on the highway, that used in the park is mixed at a central plant. The laying is so handled that almost no difficulty dif-ficulty is experienced by auto- mobnists using the drives that are being worked. The two contracts con-tracts gave employment to about 100 men. The surfacing is IS ' feet wide, the width of most of the Utah pavements outside of cities. Mr. Lindberg also has the contract for the construction and gravel surfacing of the 13.5 miles in the Kaibab forest. The Bright Angel trail, connecting con-necting the north and south rims and crossing a suspension bridge over the Colorado at the bottom of the great cut, is being reconstructed. recon-structed. Approximately four miles of this was done between October and May, eliminating a few rather steep pitches on the old trail, at a cost of about $20,000. About 35 men were employed, the work being done by the park forces. It will require re-quire possibly another $20,000 to complete the reconstruction of the trail. |