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Show $300,000 TO BE EXPENDED ON STRIP ROAD Arizona Will Open Bids February Febru-ary 11; Expect to Complete Construction Within Year One of the important links of U. S. 91, which means much to the towns of southern Utah as a means of securing se-curing more tourist business, is to be transformed this years from a dangerous danger-ous and widely known piece of bad road into a fine boulevard. This section of 91 cross the northwest north-west corner of Arizona and is approximately approxi-mately 18 miles in length. The entire highway from Salt Lake to Los Angeles, An-geles, with tills exception, is fine condition, con-dition, but little work has been done by Arizona on this stretch of road u recent years and this short stretch is in deplorable shape. Tourists last season were emphatic in their renunciation renun-ciation of this section of the road and much travel was kept from this route by the reports given out by tourists. The following, with regard to construction con-struction of the strip road, recently appeared ap-peared in a Phoenix, Arizona, paper: Arizona's northmost national highway, high-way, from the Utah state line to the Nevada line by way of Littlefield on the Arrowhead Trail will be graded and bridged during the next 12 months, according to federal aid highway officials. offi-cials. Bids will be opened for the work on February 11 and it is estimated that the grading and bridge will be completed com-pleted within 300 days, weather condition con-dition in that section permitting continuous con-tinuous work on the road. The stretch of road in the project is estimated to cost about $300,000. Plans call for a steel viaduct over the particular bad section of Sand Hollow creek one-tenth of a mile in length. With the recent completion of the Lee's Ferry bridge, the improved section sec-tion of the Arrowhead Trail strip through northern Arizona will add materially to tourist travel down through this state from both Atlantic and Pacific seaboards. |