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Show Improvements Receive OK lit Bryce Canyon With the arrival of warm weather it has bcn possible to start an active work program at Bryce Canyon National Park in preparation for a busy summer, announced Superintendent Paul R. Franke. The park highway nas now been opened to Rainbow Point and to all scenic outlooks. Trail crews are working below the rim and will soon have every section in good shape. Mr. Franke further stated that some funds were being made available for improving the physical phy-sical plant of the park. The request re-quest for funds has been steadily pressed by the local organization and began to bring results in 1953 when over $10,000 was al-lotted al-lotted to construct a new sewage disposal plant and system. During Dur-ing the past winter with the help of funds transferred from Zion Park at the request of the Super-Intendent, Super-Intendent, it has been possible, by an expenditure of $4,300 to re-1 habilitate the employee dorml- tory, Install additional showers and a heating plant. The Super-Intendent Super-Intendent was particularly fortunate for-tunate to also secure six house trailers valued at $1800 each from the Bureau of Reclamation. Four of these will be set up at Bryce Canyon National Park to helpj nouse seasonal and temporary summer employees. A six unit trailer area will be developed for the government owned trailers and this will involve approximately approxi-mately $21500 for installing sewer, water, propane gas, power linos, roads, and paths. The-four-stall oriuinment shed Is also being rebuilt, at a cost of $3.")00 and provided with a heating heat-ing plant for automobile and truck storage and repairs. Of particular interest is the programed work this summer. On a recent trip to San Francisco, Mr. Franke conferred with the Na-tional Na-tional Park Service Office of Design De-sign and Construction for the development, and developed plans for proposed expenditure of $81,500 budgeted for construction in the 19;f fiscal year. Assistant Superintendent C. A. Thomas and Park Engineer M. W. Wilcox spent Friday, May 6, at the park laying out the campground extension ex-tension and a new enlarged parking area at Sunset Point. If the approDriatton bill Including this construction money for Bryce Canyon is passed by Congress work will start as soon as the funds become aailable. A bark beetle control croiect which will cost $21,500 was started start-ed on April 18 when a spotting crew begnn work. Approximately 1500 pondorosa pine within Bryce Canyon will be cut and treated in an effort to control an epidemic epi-demic of the Black Hills Beetle which is capable of killing millions mil-lions of ti-ees on the park and the adjacent Dixie National Forest if not controlled. The work Is being carried on in close cooperation with the Forest Service whose crews are felling and treating trees on the Dixie National Forest. For-est. Last season approximately $30,000 was expended on control. |