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Show State HiIcilaBs T Make InispesSf osn Tout veir Eflfigfla way s Delegation To Inspect Highways, Mineral Deposits, Hatchery Site Tour Will Be Made Friday After Breakfast Meet Here A personal inspection tour by Idrho state officials and federal engineers of highway needs of this) area, mineral deposits, and the proposed site of a fish hatchery hat-chery is scheduled for Friday, March 27, Mel Reeves, secretary secre-tary of the Preston Chamber of Commerce announced today. Governor Chase Clark and Allen C. Merritt, commissioner; of public works, will represent Idaho officials offi-cials and B. J. Finch of Ogden, federal fed-eral highway engineer, and A. L. Anderson, regional forestry engineer, engi-neer, will represent federal depart, meats. A breakfast meeting at the Club cafe will be held Friday morning with county commissioners. Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce officials, and other civic organization leaders present. Henry Rawlings, chairman of board of county commissioners, will preside. Following ihe meeting meet-ing a tour will be taken from Preston Pres-ton to Strawberry summit through Mink Creek and then over the Pres-i Pres-i 011-Grace highway through Treas-ureton, Treas-ureton, Cleveland1 and Thatcher. Of paramount importance to I northern Cache valley, Ccniii valley, and the Bear Lake country coun-try are these two roads over which the tour be taken. Both the Preston-Grace highway high-way and the Strawberry road have taken on new importance as farm-to-market inlets and as a link in the federal defense highway systems as a result of the national preparedness program. At the present time both roads are badly in need of repairs, and the Preston-Grace Preston-Grace highway in particular, since it has been left partly finished. fin-ished. The party will have luncheon at Grace where they will Join Fish and Game Commissioner Owen Morris, Commissioner of Law Enforcement En-forcement , J. L. Balderston, and Commissioner of Agriculture Newport. New-port. From Grace they plan to inspect the proposed site for a stale fish hatchery on Whiskey creek before leaving for Soda Springs for a survey of sulphur and manganese deposits near there. The tour will be climaxed Friday evening by a banquet meeting at Monlpelier at 7 p. m., sponsored by the Associated Civic clubs of Southeastern Idaho. Delegates from all the civic organizations in this area of the state are expected to be in attendance. |