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Show Depot Road Now Decent Highway The finishing touches on the grading grad-ing and graveling of the two-mile stretch of road leading to the Denver & Rio Grande depot from the city was made last evening and potrons of the road can be assured of a decent route to travel without risk of being stranded in the mud. It may be that the heavy roller owned by the Ely Construction company and which is at the depot will be used to pack the gravel solidly to make the job of the first-class! type. The road was first graded and then a heavy coat of gravel grav-el placed in the center for the two-mile two-mile stretch. The gravel was evenly even-ly scattered and to insm-e the latter from working from the grade workmen work-men graded the edges, pulling the dirt so as to form a collar. The road is in better condition now than it has been for many, many years and much credit is due to those who cooperated in the building of the highway. The idea was started by the Gunnison Gunni-son Lions club and the committee named by the organization wishes to extend its best wishes and thanks to all who so kindly donated woi'k and money to carry the project to completion. com-pletion. Practically every business house in Gunnison made a cash donation. dona-tion. Many of the farmers donated teams and day's work and some money mon-ey was secui-ed from outsideers. During Dur-ing the days that was required to build the road an average of thirty men and twenty teams were on the job and the work went ahead with speed, and the result is a splendid road. ' An appeal will be made to the county coun-ty commissioners for an appropriation to help defray the expenses and it is also announced that the government will be asked to lend some help, as the road is used as a post road. Last Friday and Saturday all workmen was given lunch at the high school, the meals being served in cafeteria cafe-teria style and prepared and . served by the domestic science department of the Gunnison Valley high school. This feature proved one of the enjoyable en-joyable ones on the road building campaign cam-paign and the students and the instructor, in-structor, Miss Leone Evans, won -the gratitude and thanks of the workers and the committee in charge of the work. |