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Show Improvements Listed By Zion Park CCC's New 200,000 Gallon Water Tank To Go Into Service On April 1st ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah To improve and . maintain road conditions in Zion National Park, CCC Foreman R. T. Irwin and crew opened the park gravel crushing plant April 8. Mr. Irwin and crew will build a 500 yard stock pile for use in Zion Park. As soon as this pile is completed the plant and crew will move to Bryce Canyon where they will produce 2,000 yards of gravel for blacktopping roads in the park. Under the direction of Robert Stowell, propect assistant, the Zion Park insect-pest control program pro-gram has begun. The project started April 1, with two three-man three-man crews working consecutive shifts. Their objective is to spray with Arsenate of Lead all Cottonwood Cotton-wood and Ash trees in the park before insects' maturation period. On April 15, the new 200,000 gallon water tank at Zion National Nation-al Park will go into service. At the present time all work has been completed except for backfills back-fills and a thorough cleaning of the inside of the tank. Begun last September this CCC project consists of a 50'x50'xl4' reenforced concrete tank set (Continued on page eight) Zion Park Improvements (Continued from first page) under ground and covered with five inches of reenforced concrete and 18 inches of earth. Owen A. Johnson and John H. Dooley were the foremen in charge of this project. A companion project to the water tank, a 6-inch fire line, has been completed. This water line has been built by CCC en-rolees en-rolees under the direction of foreman fore-man John E. Excell, and is so constructed as to give fire protection pro-tection for the residential and utility areas of the park. On April 1, the Utah National Parks with headquarters at Zion Canyon was transferred to District Dis-trict 3, of the National Park Service. Ser-vice. Previous to this time they were in District 4, with headquarters head-quarters at San Francisco, Calif. Besides Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Cedar Breaks National Monument, Tim-panogas Tim-panogas Cave National Monument, Kolob National Monument and Capitol Reef National Monumetn will be a part of District 3. During the early part of the month Frank Kitteridge of the San Francisco office made the final inspection of Zion National Park as a part of District 4. John M. Davis, assistant superintendent superin-tendent of Zion National Park is now at Santa Fe, N. M., district headquarters, discussing park problems and new Zion Canyon projects. On April 1, Foreman Marion Willis with a crew of 15 CCC en-rolees en-rolees left Zion Park to establish a sub-camp at Bryce Canyon. Upon arrival they will begin the Bryce Canyon pest control project. On April 15, this crew will be supplemented by an additional 34-men 34-men and John H. Dooley, foreman. These men will continue the lookout look-out construction project begun at Rainbow Point last fall. The Nevada switch-back project, pro-ject, the largest landscape project ever undertaken in Zion Park, is almost completed. Direct work on the slope has been completed and the crew has been transferred to other projects. At this time a truck crew is clearing away the remainder of the 20,000 yards of dirt and debris that has been rolled down the slope. When this has been accomplished a rock retaining re-taining wall will be built and the Droject completed. |