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Show Wasatch Park Is Major Project Acquisition and development work at Wasatch Mountain State Park continues to have "number one priority" according accord-ing to the Utah State Park and Recreation Commission's annual report. "This area's location lo-cation near Utah's major population popu-lation centers, its intrinsic beauty beau-ty and utility as a year-round recreation site" at a location accessible to the nation's tourists tour-ists were cited by the report as reasons for pressing forward rapidly with the Wasatch program. pro-gram. Hold 22,000 Acres At present, the Park Department Depart-ment holds title to nearly 22,000 acres of land, purchased in the past three years. "Every effort was made to speed acquisition due to rising values and the need for adequate acreage in a region of mounting population pressures," said the report. Federal matching funds of $10,000 under the accelerated Public Works Program have been used for water development Another $20,090 in APW funds which could not be matched due to lack of park funds "was very kindly matched by the State Highway Commission," the report re-port noted. As a result eleven additional miles of a basic road system .was begun. Fund Made Available A $100,000 APW fund was made available in 1963 ard was again matched by the Highway Commission, resulting in 29 miles of park road in the Decker, Deck-er, Snake Creek und Deer Creek areas. The Park Commission portion of the original APW fund was used to develop a 17-imit 17-imit picnic area with adequate piped water in lower Deer Creek Canyun. |