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Show BEAVER GROUP IS ENCOURAGED IN BID FOR IMPROVEMENT ON PUFFER ROAD A group of Beaver County residents, members of the Beaver Beav-er County Committee on Industrial Indus-trial Development and Planning met with Forest Service Personnel Per-sonnel in Ogden Jan. 14 to disr cuss improvement of the road thru the Fish Lake National Forest to Puffers Lake. Committee Com-mittee members were "encouraged" "encour-aged" with their reception and with the sympatny shown by Forest Service officials toward the proposed road improvements. improve-ments. They described need for immediately im-mediately improving the road from the Upper Telluride Station Sta-tion to Merchant Valley, and urged consideration of future improvement of the road to Mt. Belknap, both areas or which are important as tourist attractions attrac-tions and recreation areas. The committee was assured that representations pertaining to the request would be made to the regional forester at Denver, Den-ver, and that a survey to determine deter-mine the most feasible way to improve the Telluride to Puffer Lake highway will be made this year. Included in the Beaver group were Frank Smith, county commission com-mission chairman; Mayor Mar-tell Mar-tell Easton, Ambrose Dalton Lions Club president, and Dr. John O. Murdock, chairman of the development and planning committee. |