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Show The Word From Boulder : r 1 ' v. ity Nirrina.LA griffin What I wanted to talk aNut this week requires a map,, and I never could draw a map. Anyway, I have lost my confidence in maps. I used to think you could use the "scale of miles" as a measurement from one point to another on the map. For the kind of terrane we have , In Boulder that wont work at all, Truman Lyman, Irene King, and I started off more or less Innocently on a horseback trip last Thursday morning to a spot that the map showed to be about tight miles away. We rode at least fifteen miles to get within a rather distant sight of the place. It was a pleasant day and we enjoyed the ride, but we came back with a sharp realization of what an awfully up-and down country we Inhabit. What a dlfflcu,. country it l In , wbloh to make roads. AH winter we hare been waiting for snow to melt In the up- lands so that we could explore possible routes for snows to melt in the uplands so that we could explore possible routes for a proposed road to connect the Escalante-Boulder road with Highway 24 In Wayne County. Representatives of two government agencies have promised to look oyer our road situation this tprlng. We believe that familiarizing ourselves with all possible routes may help, From whut I have learned about various proposed route. " It looks as If the abandoned Hlnes route Is the best. Mr. HSnes was the first large-scale uranluui operator in Circle Cliff. He seems to have picked out the most direct and feasible route Inta the Cliffs. If present operators can get (he Atomic Energ) Commission to complete that'road, 'it will be a great help to them, to the people o( Boulder, to touristsj ,who waql to visit all the parks of southern Utah, and to all Garfield County. If, in addition to this road, the Forest Service and the. Park Service would unite In Improving the present mountain Forest road, widening It. straightening it, lowering It on the northern side to approximately the route of the old pioneer road (which would connect with part of the Hlnes road), theie would be a good summer and autumn highway that would Invite travelers from far and near. Workmen began Saturday to fasten Insulator to GarKane power poles as a part of the building of the new South Central Utah telephone system. From a reliable source we hear that the work of setting pol"t Is to proceed from Henrlevllle toward Eacalante. Mr. and Mrs. Max Bebunln went to St. George last week (a be with their daughter Maxlne (Mrs, Stanton Sawyer) who was seriously 111, Mr. Behunln remained In St. Oeorge until Maxlne Is able to leaye the hospital. A few Items missed last week's report Mr. and Mrs. George Hansen moved their household goods to Cedar City, where they expect to make their home. Visiting at the Mac LeFevre home was Mr, and Mrs. Horace Hail and Mr. and Mrs. R. lihakespear of Tropic, Mac LeFevre and Kirk Lyman were In Las Vegan on, business one day last week, Eranieron Peterson and son Jimmy attended the funeral of Mrs. Zlna Monon in Salt Lake last week. Ewmeron also made a trip to Sigurd Tuesday, tak-ina " load of calves and bringing hack two bulls from Ounul-son. Mr. and Ms. Max LaBrler are back In Boulder for the summer. Max and Ueber I'oul-sen are now employed by tie telephone line contractor, |