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Show Yosemite - Zion Route Fully Completed Promoters of the Yosemite-Zion Highway linking northern California Cali-fornia with southern Utah, breathed a sigh of relief this week when Gordon Brockway, Nevada State division engineer, announced the completion of the oiling project on Highway 25. With the announcement of the completion of this project came the realization of a surfaoed, all-weather all-weather route linking the two Areas. Highway 25 Is a stretch of road In Nevada leaving U. S. Highway 93 near Caliente and connecting at Tonopah. From Tonopah the road travels In two directions. Travelers can continue into the Reno-Carson City area cJ fhe state of Nevada or they can trav-vel trav-vel directly to the Yosnuite National Na-tional Patk area In California, From Caliente tourist. can come directly Into southern Utah via Highway 54 through Panaca, Nev., Modena, Beryl Crossroads and into Cedar, connecting with Highway 91, and Highway 14 across Cedar Mountain Into the parks area. Added Advantages In addition to linking the highly populated area of San Francisco and northern California Califor-nia to the Zion and Bryce National Na-tional Parks it also affords a feasible pleasure route from that area into the national parks of California. Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam and on into the southern California area, with very little additional traveling. travel-ing. Another advantage to the route is the Gien Canyon Dam ite and with proper road building build-ing in the southern Utah area in the next few years, backers of the route will add this to the list of attractions to the route. Completion of the Y-Z route 's the culmination of two-years of road building at an estimated cost of $2 million in Nevada. The new road, engineer Brockway says, is 26 feet wide from shoulder shoul-der to shoulder, and has no major ma-jor grades, the highest point be-in be-in 6000 feet above sea level. It crosses three small summits, known as Queens City, Coyote and Hancock. It passes within six miles of the Lincoln Mine at Templuie. The link connects Highway 93 south of Caliente and Highway 6 at Tonopah. Promotion Committer Now that the highway construction con-struction is completed it falls to cities and towns along the route to promote the use of the new Y-Z Highway. Plans for this promotion pro-motion have already gotten under un-der way with a Y-Z committee already formed. Serving as president of this organization is Warren Bulloch of Cedar City with Durrel Corry, also of Cedar City serving as sec retary. They were elected to the positions at a meeting held this summer in Caliente. A complete committee has not yet been formed but will be in the Immediate Im-mediate future, they indicated, and promotional activities will pet under way as soon as practical. prac-tical. The new highway is anther link feeding potential tourists and Idustrlal travel into Cedar City where it can disperse Into the intermountaln West by trav-eling trav-eling north on Highway 91, the coastal area and vacation resorts of Los Angeles and Las Vegas, south on Highway 91 and into the scenic grandeur of the southern south-ern Utah area via Highway 14 and 91 south and east. |