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Show (to) PUSH IT ALONG nr HAT road up the Parowan Canyon, and its im-portance im-portance as a part of one of the best scenic l loops in the world, is receiving a lot of favorable i comment in Cedar City. The fact that the road needs comparatively little work to ptit it in fair condition for auto and wagon travel, makes its fan-mediate fan-mediate improvement imperative. For the time , being all the native lumber used in the county, erj. nearly so, must be hauled over this road. There L are hundreds of car owners in the county and its . environs who would like to avail themselves of the invitation extended to them by the great outdoors in our mountains of resting and recuperating in! the shade of the pinew and on the banks of the cool. elear mountain streams and lakes, if they could do to with their cars without serious risk, and without with-out facing all the trouble and fatigue of a journey , on horseback or by wagon. A number of local people have commended j warmly the agitation started through the columns :of The Record for the improvement of the road j through Parowan canyon to the head of the Cedar Breaks, and are willing to do all they can to encourage en-courage and promote the building of this road. The County Commissioners should lead out ( with as generous an appropriation as they can af-1 af-1 ford, and the nucleus thus started should be added add-ed to by private contributions and if possible by state funds. The contract has been let for the construction of a permanent high line road through the Cedar; Gulch, but this is a very difficult piece of rock work and will require months to complete it, while if ve get busy at once the Parowan road can be put in I condition for a lot of good service the present sea ' 1 son. Then it will also be in shape to intersect with the Cedar-Long Valley road via the rim of the! I Cedar Canyon when the latter road is completed and ready for travel. Everybody boost for the improvement of this road. |