Show tile the news man can remember in the not distant past when lie was hooted at for mentioning the pan duitch tropic road that we felt pretty sure would materialize some lay day now sonic some of you folks that hooted at us its for even dreaming of a thins thing sit up tip and take notice af pf the following article which appeared in the salt lake lak e tribune last friday morning dont it make you feel good to read this kind of information dont it sorter make you feel as though some guardian angel was looking down on us after all feel as though we were going to get out of the old rut some day and have good roads after all good roads ire arc the most essential things for a country and next to that is a good big hunk of civic pride a and nd community ambition with the new roads in all directions the new hotel at bryce and the hundred and one good things that are bound to come to us we must bring back to life our commercial club and get busy and help take an active part in some of these affairs bids for the construction of about worth of road leading to the bryce canyon through tile the panguitch tropic troie project through throng h the scenic red canyon were opened at the office of the united states bureau of public roads by district engineer J B pinch finch today the grading bid of the higbee construe construction action company lowest and for the five concrete b bridges ridge s the bid of the beeson construction company of ogden was the lowest the bids of the higbee company were as follows bryce canyon road panguitch trop ic and cedar long valley these bids were the lowest in the respective sections of the road between cedar city and bryce canyon the panguitch gangu pangu itch tropic road will be through the red canyon this grading will require two tunnels through sandstone cliffs of about six feet each in the red canyon the beeson company bid for the five concrete bridges the bids were referred to the secretary of agriculture at washington with the recommendation of the local office of the bureau of roads the road through red canyon will provide one of the scenic automobile roads of the the state that leads to the famous bryce canyon it will probably be completed in the latter part p of august and ready for the late summer auto travel according to reports received at the office of mr finch today it is expected the steel for the railroad to cedar city will be laid within tile the next eighteen days the union pacific has lo 10 logs s and rock at bryce canyon for the large hotel that will be built there it was reported here today that work upon this structure will begin b e immediately and be carried rapidly to completion the red canyon cany on highway which is to be improved at on cewill once will be about eight miles in leight the road will be built on the sides of of the canyon in order to avoid the danger of the floods which are frequently caused by cloudbursts the road will be b e eighteen feet in width in the eight e ight miles fiffles there will be a climb of about I 1 1100 feet A LN |