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Show AGREEMENT ON CANYON ROAD NOW REACHED Plans for construction of the Butterfield Canyon upper road link with Middle Canyon in Tooele County through the Oquirrh Mountains Moun-tains were agreed upon last Friday. The agretment was reached between be-tween officials of the Salt Lake County Commission, Tooele County Commission, the State Park and Recreation Commission and the Utah National Guard. A schedule was set up calling for early summer construction of three miles of roadway extending east- ward from Butterfield Pass in the Oquirrh Mountains directly down the mountains to the main canyon. Completion of the road will link the Tooele side of Middle Canyon Road to the lower Butterfield Road into Lark and Herriman in southwest south-west Salt Lake o'inty. Commissioner Lamont B. Gund-ersen, Gund-ersen, Salt Lake County Commission Commis-sion chairman, said that an excellent excel-lent conotruction program was decided de-cided upon between the county and the Utah. Guard combat engineers through Maj. Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, (Utah adjutant general. Francis Oswald, State Park Commission Com-mission landscape architect, pointed point-ed out that Wasatch Front residents of Salt Lake, Utah, and Davis counties coun-ties from the east, and Tooele County the west, would be able to travel the mountain loop later in the seascn. Project plans indicate a 1 5-mile long road link between Tooele and Salt Lake County communities. Giving access to the proposed state park in Middle Canyon, now under preliminary organization, is also part of the purpose of the road. Present distance between these points is mere than 40 miles by existing highways circling the north half of the Oquirrh range. . Gen. Rich told the group that the project would provide excellent training for his units within close proximity of Camp W. G. Williams locr.ted at the east foot of the mountains. moun-tains. O |