Show Three Shifts Working on Grand Canyon Road o 0 The road through the Kaibab is in excellent condition and nd construction work through the Grand Canyon National Park is being rushed both by the Bureau of Public Roads and the Union Pacific according to Randall L. L Jones Special representative of the Union Pacific who returned Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day night from a road inset inspection trip Powerful lights have been installed by one of the construction companies and three shifts are being maintained to hurry along the work Twenty-five Twenty miles of road to Cape Royal including three miles which is part of the main entrance and a branch road to Point Imperial will be finished by the middle of next summer This work is in general charge of Mr R. R Therion resident engineer of the U. U S. S Bureau of Public I roads and the Lang Construction Company of Los Angeles is constructing seventeen miles and the the B. B P P. Boyd Co of ofSan ofSan ofSan I San Diego the remainder Approximately eight miles is i dugway and three powerful steam shovels are in the park tearing up the earth On account of the short working season leMOn it is necessary to put forth every effort possible and already about four miles has been completed When finished it will be approximately half a million dollar job The new half million lodge is crowded to capacity seventy cabins will have been completed by Sunday and work will commence on thirty more Tents will have to be beJ J pitched to the crowds which will be there for forthe fori J i the Bar Association of the United States next week There are arc approximately one hundred twenty five ive employees at atthe atthe atthe the lodge in the employ of the railroad At the entrance of the park the gove government is erecting a new checking station Mr 1 Rust at V. V T. T Park reported that his cabins were all filled and that thata a heavy hea tourist traffic was coming into the Grand Canyon Park Approximately forty miles through the Kaibab forest this side of the park is being surveyed graded widened and having narrow turns removed under the direction of Joseph Jensen Engineer of the Bureau of Public Roads and this road is in excellent shape Both government and railroad are doing everything within their power to make these distant points of beauty with the luxuries of civilization and it is remarkable what has been accomplished in a very few years |