| Show state engineers R review a v I 1 ew Z alon mt carmel route final plans are be qun gun I 1 inspection of the recent revisions of the location of the states end clad of the proposed road from zion park to bit alt carmel was made the latter part of last week by B E 0 knowlton anil and J E garn engineers with the state road commission and J W engineer with the district office of tile the federal bureau of public roads at ogden making of this review was found necessary before final plans I 1 could be drawn in the of office of the state road commission while the entire zion mt carmel road which la is approximately miles in length will post cost in the neighborhood ot of the state will furnish only about of that amount the national park service will pay about of the total cost the balance of approximately will be paid from federal aid and state funds federal aid paying approximately and the state thus highway officials contend will give 08 the state of utah a most valuable road ata at a minimum minima m cost connects other roads importance of this road to the state of utah was pointed out saturday by henry H blood chairman of the state road commission and if H S kerr chief engineer of the state road department part ment under the present plan plait these officials ficiala ot declared utah Is to get a 0 tremendously important road at a minimum cost coat mr blood declared it was doubtful whether tho the people of oe tile the state have recognized its ita importance in connection with tile the federal 7 per cent system 9 especially because of ita it being indispensable in connecting various barlou 3 points of into interest rost in southern utah and also will interstate Inter stata roads some look upon it he be declared as aimont exclusively a tourist road this la 18 not true ho he said it connects conn octa the roads of and rounds out the 7 per cent system by going to the county seat of kane county it Is tho connecting road between zion park and the grand canyon attention wag waff c called by mr blood to the fact that tile the people of ar arizona 1 z 0 n a feel that while utah and arizona have been lying side by ide aide and b have a T 0 much in common there has been an I 1 insurmountable oun table barrier between the two commonwealths in the shape ot of the colorado river and the grand canyon recognizing this he declared the state of arizona appropriated toward tho the construction cost of a bridge across tile the colorado n near 10 ar lees ferry and that bridge will be under construction soon but this will not solve the problem alone lie he said for with the construction construction or of the bridge only a more or less difficult way out of that section would be found all winter route with the construction of tile the Z alon lone mt carmel road tilia people from arl zona who wish to travel to salt lake or other points in central or northern utah will have an all winter winter road from froin the lees ferry bridge they will travel almost directly west striking the grand canyon road south ot of fredonia Fre donla then travel north th through roligh fredonia Fre donla and kanab to mt alt carmol carmel thence oat st to the park and lj la verkin through rockville and and then north onto the tha zion park highway those wishing to tako take another route may continue north through mt carmel over the grand canyon highway to panguitch Pan gultch and on north the tha 7 per der cent system on this road goes as far south as Pan gultch and the road between Pan gultch and mt iq declared to be good the road bet betwee en the state stata litte itie and mt alt carmol carmel by way of kanab Is ia being clacel in excellent condition b by y a betterment program the highway officials declared the road from mt art carmel west will be open all winter while the cedar long valley road west Is IB open only a few months of each year salt lake tribune |
