Show i I i Bids Called for Park Road Improvement A contract for a much needed improvement Improvement im- im provement on the Zion National Par Park highway is being advertised bids tobe to tobe tobe be opened on January i I l-f. l The contract calls for the improvement improvement improvement improve improve- ment of 76 miles mlles of road between Junction and the Dalton Dalto Wash at an estimated cost of ot Th This does docs not Include three bridges to be built on this section the largest of which will be over th the north fork of the Virgin river This project will eliminate the windIng windIng winding wind wind- Ing section of the Zion park road known as the Bamberger dUg dugway This dugway was built with aid obtained ob ob- by Governor Simon Bamberger Bamber- Bamber ger when h he was chairman of the therold road rold commission and was so great an improvement over the former road that the section was named in h his honor It is 15 however far below th the e I standards set up for modern modem auto auto- mobile h highways The new road will ill be constructed largely on a new alignment with a 6 percent grade but ea easy curvature cur and and proper and bratto brot brat to gravel surface standards Another bid to be opened on Janu Janu- ary 4 will be the gravel el surfacing of ofU ofU U 14 miles mlles of road rOOd between Beaver and Minersville a national rec recovery ery secondary se secondary secondary se- se condary highway project estimated to cost The roa road has l been en re recently recently reo re- graded by force account |