Show I BIGGEST EST ROAD I DEVELOPMENT IN WORLDS WORLD'S HISTORY Wh What t the mine shaft hart and tunnel i d dd iri in making the valuable ore resources and productive of we wealth roads road do for scenic resources s. s And the tha outstanding scenic development work In recent years in the United States Stales StateS StateS- In fact one of or the outstanding developments develop ments In highway construction In the worlds world's history has history has been the building of the Zion Carmel Oarmel highway Few agencies outside of the United States government could finance such an enterprise and still fewer would care to Certainly it was far beyond the reach of Kane county and Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington county to which It has gre greatest test economic Importance The cost of the road Is about about a a- bout the assessed valuation of all of or Kane Cut through the face of a forbidding forbidding forbidding forbid forbid- ding cliff cUff writes E. E T. T superintendent superintendent superintendent super super- of Zion and Bryce national parks paries a tunnel more than a mile mUe in length opens up the beautiful upper reaches of Zion park over a scenic winding road leading to Bryce Canyon Canyon Can Can- yon you by way of Mt Carmel From the entrance of Zion national nation nation- al park the road winds back a sri nt forth along the slopes of Pine Creek canyon climbing upward feet In four mileto miles mile to the portal of the tunnel through the high sandstone cliff cUtt For feet the tunnel 22 feet wide and 16 IS feet high follows just In Inside inside in- in side aide the face of the cliff on a S 3 I per percent percent cent grade rising that is Is feet feet in In until at the opposite end It baa has baaI I climbed above the walls of the l lower Pine Creek Cree t canyon From there ther the road leads through sandstone ridges and across rocky plateaus to the eastern boundary of the park and then to the Grand Orand Canyon Canyon Canyon Can Can- yon highway south of or Mt LIt Carmel |