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Show PROPOSED CAKMEL ROAD TO COST STATE LITTLE Inspection of the recent revisions of the location of the state's end of the proposed road from Zion park to Mt. Carmel was made the latter part of last week by E. C. Knowlton and J. E. Garn, engineers with the state road commission, and J. V. Youn" engineer with the district office of the federal bureau of public roads at Ogden. Making of this review was found necessary before final plans could be drawn in the office of the state road commission. While the entire Zion-Mt. Carmel road, which is approximately twenty-five twenty-five miles in length, will cost in the neighborhood of $1,500,000, the state will furnish only about $75,000 of that amount. The national park service will pay about $1,200,000 of the total cost. The balance of approximately $300,000 will be paid from federal aid and state funds, federal aid paying approximately $225,000 and the state $75,000. Thus, highway officials contend, will give the state of Utah a most valuable road at a minimum cost. Connects Other Roads Importance of this road to the s;aie of Utah was pointed out Saturday by Henry H. Blood, chairman of the state road commission, and H. S. Kerr, chief engineer of the state road department. Under the present plan, those officials declared, Utah is to get a tremendously important road at a minimum cost. Mr. Blood declared it was doubtful whether the people of the state have recognized its importance import-ance in connection with the federal 7 per cent system, especially because of its being indispensable in connecting various points of interest in southern Utah, and also its importance .in connecting con-necting with interstate roads. Some look upon it, he declared, as almost exclusively a tourist road. This is not true, he said. It connects up the roads of, and rounds out the 7 per cent system, by going to the county seat of Kane county. Ir is the connecting road between Zion park and the Grand canyon. Attention was called by Mr. Blood to the fact that the people of Arizona feel that, while Utah and Arizona have been lying side by side and have much in common, there has been an insurmountable barrier between the two commonwealths in the shape of the Colorrado river and the Grand canyon. Recognizing this, he declared, declar-ed, the state of Arizona appropriated $1S5,000 toward the construction cost of a bridge across the Colorado near Lee's Ferry, and that bridge will be under construction soon. But this will not solve the problem alone, he said, for v h the construction of the bridge mly a more or less difficult wry L.ut of that section would be found. All Winter Route With the construction of the Zicn-Mt. Zicn-Mt. Carmel road, the people from Arizona who wish to travel to Salt Lake or other points in central or northern Utah will have an all-winter road. From the Lee's Ferry bridge they will travel almost directly west, striking the Grand canyon road south of Fredonia. then travel north through Fredonia and Kanab to Mt. Carmel, thence west to the park and La Verkin through RockviUe. and then north onto the Zion park h::h-way. h::h-way. Those wishing to take another route may continue north through Mt. Carmel over the Grand canyon highway high-way to Panguitch and on north. The 7 per cent system on this road goes as far south as Panguitch. and the read between Panguitch and Mt. Carmel is declared to be good. The road between the state line and Mt. Carmel by way of Kanab is being placed in excellent condition by a betterment program, the highway officials of-ficials declared. The road from Mt. Carmel west will be open all winter, while the Cedar-Long Valley road west is open only a few months of each year. Salt Lake Tribune. |